Free Narrative Essays: My View On Racism

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When I was a child, I was taught by my mom that no matter where you are from, you have to respect others around you. When she said this when I was younger I didn 't understand it nearly as much as I do now. She went on to explain how theres all sorts of different people around the world then also explained there are different people in my own neighborhood. When she was informing me about this, I didn 't know that she was talking about race. But, now its clear to me that she was talking about how theres all types of different people (races) around the world and I am just as different to someone of another race as they are too me. The main message she was trying to get across was, how its ok to be different from one another, we just have to respect …show more content…
Now days, especially in a college setting (chapter 1) you are placed in classes with all sorts of different races and religions. I now pay attention to race, not because I feel different from others, but simply on the fact that theres a whole world out there as well as all sorts of different types of people. My current view on racism has changed since I 've been to college simply because of all the different races Ive seen seem to interest me to travel to where they are …show more content…
I feel that if we did it in this day and age we would give minorities an unfair advantage over those that aren 't a minorities. I feel that even though the racism problem in america wont stop for a long time, school systems and work fields has gotten better from when this affirmative action was put into place.
Well obviously anyone who is born in the united states is a citizen. To be an american citizen really is a cause to cause bases and is based off of a number of different things. One being the reason you would like to become a citizen and weather its for a job or family or whatever it is needs to be throughly examined and thought through.
I definitely think that people have much too much concerned with other races and how we refer to them. It doesn 't matter what you 're heritage is, doesn 't matter where you were born. If their not bothering or worried about you, you should worry about them, especially if its something that cant ever be changed weather you like it or not.
I feel that it isn 't ok for a white man to use the “n” word ever, I also feel that its equally if not more wrong for a person of color to use the “n” word. This horrible word was used back in the slave days, it was a racial slur that the white slave owners would call his

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