Over the years my perspective of the world has changed due to my experiences growing up. Discrimination has always been there but many times ignored. Unfortunately, just like my ancestors had, I experienced it as well but education helped me to deal with it.. In each educational and social transition, new people were brought to me with new knowledge. Despite of the years, each stage has taught me a lesson for my own benefit that would be very valuable for my future after learning to succeed and fail in any circumstance. Overall, my goal will always be focused on becoming a better person and get educated to be able to educate others. Even though middle school years were the easiest, they were one of the tough ones to experience. The school student body were women, specifically white women mostly. The rest of the school was a minority between Indigenous or Indian like me, and African american students. While the school environment was acceptable, there was one specific occasion when a teacher from another section/class humiliated my …show more content…
The experiences I had with humiliation only gave me more strength to keep going forward and accomplish new things. Besides, I get to meet new people and propose myself new goals. Furthermore, these small life experiences affected me in some way but it helped me to overcome the reality of many students in the classroom. Coming from a small indian community does not mean people are dumb,in fact if they go to the city or even travel outside of the country it means they are smart to reach opportunities just like me. Yes, I am an Indian and just like I had the misfortune to meet these people, I thanked them for pushing me to succeed and not to give up. Besides, it gave me the opportunity to get out of my comfort zone and to reach life opportunities to succeed or fail but always