My Experience As An African American Student

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There were students that talks about their past life situations, their family relationships, and experience in the United States as an African American. One of the students talked about how she felt like an outsider. She use to live in Iraq, but she didn’t have a better life because of the wars that are going on. She and her family try to get a place that they could be saved. They left because one day, a man told them to get out of their own house, or he will burn them alive. She also lost some of her family members. When I was listening to her story I thought about my country, it’s the same situation. They left to Jordon and she never felt that she is welcomed.
Another student talks about how he gets discriminated because of his color in

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