Why Acceptance Is Important To Me

Acceptance Throughout my life I have been through many things. All of these things require acceptance. Also i have been raised to be a very accepting person. In my photo essay I have chosen racism, sex, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, religion, migration, family composition, and social roles. Growing up i was taught that all skin was beautiful. I have been friends with many diverse cultures in my lifetime and have experienced the situations they have been through in which others were not accepting of them. When I was younger I did not understand because racism had never been showed to me. Growing up I started seeing it more not only with people discriminating against my friends but also against me. My family is a mixture of races and i love them all. My grandparents are racist however but i was never shown it because i was not around them often, but i remember my grandmother saying to me once “how dare your aunt have a child with a black man” i remember being so angry. That was my cousin she was talking about. I still to this today remember that and will make sure my kids know that every skin color is beautiful. …show more content…
My mom had “the talk” with me pretty early. She told me i should wait until i met someone i knew i really loved. She never made me feel like it would be wrong but she made sure i knew it was special. Sexual orientation was something we talked about to i was practically raised by a gay man. He would always babysit me and was my mom 's best friend he was my family. My dad hated it my dad is very homophobic but i loved bryan and always stood up for him when my father would say negative things. I am very glad i got to grow up around him because that stuff really does affect how you look at things and maybe if i had never been around him i would not have been so accepting because of the views my dad tried to force upon