How Does Race Class And Ethnicity Affect My Life

My life has been affected by race, class and ethnicity everyday in different ways. Each category has affected my life in different ways, but they are a major part what makes me who I am. I was born into all three sections of being born into the working class, as a white person who is American. I can not change the fact that I am white, unless I want to go through many procedures, I can not change the fact that I was born an American, but I can choose if I want to leave what class I am in. Class is people who have similar economic or social statuses. I am apart of the middle class to working class and is largely due to my parents and what I was born into at this point in my life. My parents each have set jobs where they work, my dad works …show more content…
Race has also affected my life in many ways and continues to affect it in my everyday life. I identify as being white since that is the color of my skin. Race is not something that someone can choose or change because it is how they are born. Again being from a small town in Maine, race has not affected my life greatly due to basically my entire school being the same race, white. My high school had maybe six or seven people who do not identify as white. Maine is also predominantly white so we tend to be all the same race. Having traveled to countries outside the US is when my race has played a role. I have traveled to Mexico twice and Nicaragua once. The first time I went to Mexico, I stayed on a resort with many other white people so we were treated about the same. The second trip to Mexico we were treated like we were important people since we were white. The resort was more for people from that area or families from the US. So there was not a lot of white people there, but they treated us like we were very important and wanted to take care of whatever we needed. It was the same when we traveled off the resort they each wanted to take care of the white person. The biggest impact of being white was while I was in Nicaragua, due to being there to help with …show more content…
Ethnicity has affected my life in many ways, but it depends on where I am currently that determines how much it is affecting me at the moment. While living in Maine, it doesn’t really make a difference since most people are American as well. Traveling to other parts of the country has made a difference, like going to Boston or New York City they have some different ethnic groups. It also made a difference while I was in Mexico and Nicaragua that I was American and not one of them. It was about the same as me being white on how I was treated. In both countries they would refer to me or the group that I was with as being the American. This past March while in Mexico, I took a taxi to the airport and when I got out of the taxi the guy said bye American girl, since he didn’t know my name only that I was traveling back to the United States. In Nicaragua when I went to dig I was with other Americans and also other locals but the kids tended to want to talk to us Americans because we are different to