Impressions: Verbal And Nonverbal Microaggressions

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Microaggressions are the slight insults and offensive comments or actions against a nondominant group. There are verbal and non-verbal microagressions. Those aggressions could be unintentional or made unconsciously. My first experience as the recipient of microaggression was the same week I arrived into the United States. The landlord of the house where I used to live asked me to go to the store to choose decorations for the house. On the way to the store he was driving very slow similar to a tourist bus. When we got back home he told me, “I know you are very impressed, because I know that in Mexico there’s only unpaved roads and donkeys. At that time I felt very humiliated. I have been a recipient of more microaggression like insults because

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