Imersion Experience: The Immersion Experience

Immersion Experience
I interviewed my aunt that was sixty nine years old and is very open minded about things. I knew this conversation between us would be interesting because I never really asked my elderly family about their lives. I started off our conversation by asking her what was her life experience like growing up? She chuckled at first and explained that it was nice. People communicated then face to face and knew how to talk to each other. She was very family oriented as everyone else was and that you could always count on family when you needed them for anything. Family and friends were always your backbone and you always seen them. The knowledge that …show more content…
What was her social life like? She said that far as her social life she only talked to her relatives and friends that were the same race as her. Her family didn’t believe in her talking to white people because at the time the disliked black people unless they wanted the blacks to work for them. Also whites only would acknowledge them if they wanted to have relations with that black women. All she was raised around was her family and friends that in the end were probably related in some type of way. Social life was centered around one big family pretty much. Far as the community a lot of racism was still going on and things were still segregated. She explained that she witnessed and experienced having to come through the back door at a restaurant or movie theater. How nasty white people were to them when they would go out as an adult. During her child hood none of that was seen because she was segregated from them but it was still know that racism was happening in the world. She went back on to say that we in today world have an upper hand of life and that we just don’t know how good it is to have things changed. That will live in a far better life style that was in their time but the values that they were taught should still be a part of our