Narrative Essay On Racial Identity

My racial identity is Hispanic and it is targeted. My skin color is the first thing people notice about me when we meet. In society today, it works to basically give them preconceived idea of the kind of person I am. Many people who don’t know me well will most likely attribute or compare my actions appearance to my race. Reading through the conditions that granted to you through white privilege, I think back on my life and look at all the times in which my race has worked to disadvantage me. Until I was younger, my racial identity was basically insignificant to me because I wasn’t aware of it myself. I lived in a country where my race was greatly dominant. In a racial aspect, I was not part of a minority or targeted identity. Only when I moved to the United States became more aware of my racial Identity. I didn’t know too many Hispanics and at the time I didn’t identify myself with people by race. I wasn’t accustomed to it, and not become accustomed to it until I went to high school. It wasn’t until high school that I was among a diverse population of my peers. Even then though, I was in an accelerated academic program that did not share the same diversity as the school as a whole. As a result, I haven’t …show more content…
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