Personal Narrative: My Interview With Jacob

I’ve usually learned in hard way because frankly, I love to challenge myself to expand my personal capacity. Although I had already talked to one of my classmates about having interview with her as a Caucasian woman, I decided to do it with my cousin’s friend, Jacob, who I met in my place for the first time during Thanksgiving holidays. Interviewing Jacob about his interactions with other cultures has made me realize that I have a lot to learn about the meaning of the privilege and holding it. Jacob was a 24-year-old Caucasian, who lived in Missouri his entire life. Though he was visiting California for the second time in his life, he was in a Persian house for the first time. At the beginning it was a little hard for me to understand him because of the way he talked, I became quiet and just listened to the conversation between him, my cousin and my uncle. I didn’t want to embarrass myself in front of him by misunderstanding a question or asking the definition of the word from them. I could see how uncomfortable he was that I just listened, also, he followed my eye contact based on the discussing topic in order to recognize that I could understand them or not. After a while, my cousin asked me that why I was quiet and didn’t participate in their conversation. I made an excused and said that I was making the table for the dinner. Then he started asking about my opinion about their conversation, when I responded him, all of the sudden, Jacob started laughing and …show more content…
At this point, I couldn’t tell him that I am more interested to know how he interact with his not-Caucasian friend than his culture. At the same time, I was thinking about my life, if one day I decided to move out of California. I was thinking that I should choose the next state wisely, because it is very important to be aware of the diversity of the