Summary Of The Interview By Jesse Frazazier

Feet, finally grounded Don’t educate your children to be rich, educate them to be happy. Jesse Glyn Frazier is 27 years old with a degree in Theater and Cinema. He had a minor in creative writing. He has moved over seventeen times; Saint Joseph being his home for past twelve years. As we go out to the back porch the sun is starting to set and you can hear crickets starting to chip. I can see he is nervous, messing with the color of his grey polo shirt, as we begin to sit down for the interview. From my conversation with Mr. Frazier, I examined the strong differences between various cultures of schooling where their preparation of timing, and their idea of racism were nonexistent. The conversation taught me to remember to see the creativeness …show more content…
The way Mr. Frazier grew up he saw no boundaries in people. His mother, Mary, would teach him how to cook all different cultures of food. She had friends that taught her how to cook Southern soul food as well as cuisines such as Chinese, Italian, Ethiopian, and American. There was always a diverse group of friends around. Growing up in a homeschool household came many opportunities for culture. Mr. Frazier brought up that he did not know what racism was because of the multicultural people that surrounded him in his life. Before he went any further, I thought to myself that this is going to be a touchy subject. At first I wish he didn’t even bring it up, but at the end I was sure glad he did. He recalls that “college didn’t prepare me for racism, I didn’t know it existed.” Right there was my a-ha moment in my interview. How powerful would it be if more people didn’t know about racism and that subcultures weren’t subjugated into norms that society puts on us? This got me thinking about how the world could be like. I have always seen people as equals on the same playing field but of course we know the stereotypes of the different cultures. We have Indians who are associated with curry, African Americans with “ghetto”, and Middle Eastern with Islam. Mr. Frazier’s points really softened my heart because his love is for any human, as long as there’s goodness. I think …show more content…
In public I learned how to conform to a certain image identity. This goes back again what people expect from you in school. Society categorizes us into groups in public school such as geeks, nerds, popular, jocks, and preps (cheerleaders). Thinking this is how the world is set up, it turns out to be true. It makes me sad that we judge others on exteriors. Society measures status from job levels and the amount of income earned from elite careers in law or medicine. About homeschool Mr. Frazier said “ I was always told to be me and no one ever made me feel bad for being me.” He didn’t know about how society categorizes, so he didn’t feel the need to fit into a box. While in homeschool he learned to always be himself. It took me years to figure this out. I did not know people would stick around to get to know you if you didn’t fit into a box. By having people surprise me by this it made me feel comfortable, with myself. No one would make me feel bad for being me