Personal Narrative: Prejudice And Discrimination

Never judge a book by it's cover, but rather one should open it to skim its content in order to decide if he or she wants to read it. Same goes for people; why judge people by their appearance without knowing them.
At my high school the Asian population is associated with wealth and intelligence. Meanwhile, Latinos, such as myself, are seen as poor, ignorant fools that can barely add. In a school largely populated by these two races, there exists barriers, which are difficult to break. It was difficult for me to connect with anyone. Most of my classes were composed of Asians-predominantly vietnamese; which up until then I did not associate much with. Through my childhood, majority of my friends were of my race and have gone to the same school as me. As a freshman, starting out in a school knowing anyone due to all my friends going to Santiago or La Quinta, I felt like an outcast. Everyone seem to know each other, as if they all meet each other before, even though they came from completely different schools. It seem as though I were an alien in a foreign country, especially when they would start to speak in their native tongue. The few Latinos that were place in the same course as I were spread out throughout not only the class. but thourgh periods.
Loneliness began to …show more content…
I was erasing a part of who I was, trying to change something about me that was me. How could I stop being of mexican descent, the same way a white person stops being white. They can’t. I can’t. Rather than suppress my race, I show feel pride from it, for though my people may not fit society’s mold for an intellectual person, they are intelligent in their own right. Merely the fact that it has only been a few years since we have been allowed to have a formal education and advance far in the workforce, shows how hard working and intelligent we