Personal Narrative and My Cultural Diversity
Israa Hussein
Diversity in Psychology I was born in a country that was found upon peace and love and ended up a battlefield with unarmed soldiers. I am from Iraq, and family found upon poverty and misfortune. Through all that, I wanted to live, dream and be free. My country and my family agreed on one thing; that a girl belongs to her husband, that there's no such a thing as dreams or education for girls. I am not like any other girls, I dared to dream and I created a world in my mind that I could only wish would come true one day. In this paper, I will share different parts of my life that made me who I am today. That includes, my race and ethnicity, my gender,my social economic statues …show more content…
I ended up wearing it for a little bit, but it never felt right it felt like I was faking my believe and everyone believed me. I took it off shortly, but of course everyone that saw me talked about my parents and how they let me take it off, I remember I was really hurt and I thought my faith was gone because I did not wear the hijab. My father set my down and said, “Always remember that your faith is determine by your good deeds and by the goodness of your heart, and not by whether you cover your hair or not” . Islam is the second largest religion in the world but unfortunately the religion of peace has a lot of stereotypes around it that is not true and sometimes by its own …show more content…
In the middle east we lived in poverty and in lebanon school costs money, and it's not just tuition there is the seasonal uniform that you have to buy, the textbooks, and of course the teacher and administration bribry and tutors. With how much my mother made there was no way that she could send all six children to school. I was so envious of those kids that went to school and had homework to do, and had field trips to look forward to but all I did was live from day to day and just play with some of the kids that always did not go to school. But the worst part about this is, how the other kids looked at me and my siblings as if we were lower than them because we did not go to school. We were never bullied by those kids but we were looked down at , and I remember one of my friends her mother told her not hang out with me anymore because I did not go to school and I am poor. By the time I was eleven I was I was still in lebanon and I still did not know how to read or write, and I had myself and the world for that , I questioned my parents, “ why aren't we rich, why do we have to be so poor.” At that time I realized that this is my life, I will never go to school and I will probably end up getting married soon. That truth terrified me more than anything. So I chopped my hair and I started hanging out with the boys and I became a tomboy, in hope that the
Israa Hussein
Diversity in Psychology I was born in a country that was found upon peace and love and ended up a battlefield with unarmed soldiers. I am from Iraq, and family found upon poverty and misfortune. Through all that, I wanted to live, dream and be free. My country and my family agreed on one thing; that a girl belongs to her husband, that there's no such a thing as dreams or education for girls. I am not like any other girls, I dared to dream and I created a world in my mind that I could only wish would come true one day. In this paper, I will share different parts of my life that made me who I am today. That includes, my race and ethnicity, my gender,my social economic statues …show more content…
I ended up wearing it for a little bit, but it never felt right it felt like I was faking my believe and everyone believed me. I took it off shortly, but of course everyone that saw me talked about my parents and how they let me take it off, I remember I was really hurt and I thought my faith was gone because I did not wear the hijab. My father set my down and said, “Always remember that your faith is determine by your good deeds and by the goodness of your heart, and not by whether you cover your hair or not” . Islam is the second largest religion in the world but unfortunately the religion of peace has a lot of stereotypes around it that is not true and sometimes by its own …show more content…
In the middle east we lived in poverty and in lebanon school costs money, and it's not just tuition there is the seasonal uniform that you have to buy, the textbooks, and of course the teacher and administration bribry and tutors. With how much my mother made there was no way that she could send all six children to school. I was so envious of those kids that went to school and had homework to do, and had field trips to look forward to but all I did was live from day to day and just play with some of the kids that always did not go to school. But the worst part about this is, how the other kids looked at me and my siblings as if we were lower than them because we did not go to school. We were never bullied by those kids but we were looked down at , and I remember one of my friends her mother told her not hang out with me anymore because I did not go to school and I am poor. By the time I was eleven I was I was still in lebanon and I still did not know how to read or write, and I had myself and the world for that , I questioned my parents, “ why aren't we rich, why do we have to be so poor.” At that time I realized that this is my life, I will never go to school and I will probably end up getting married soon. That truth terrified me more than anything. So I chopped my hair and I started hanging out with the boys and I became a tomboy, in hope that the