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Prejudice And Racism Analysis

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Coming from a fairly wealthy city with whites, blacks, and everything in between, I have seen my fair share of racism. We all live in a world full of color, yet not everyone believes we should live as equals, but instead, on separate “levels”. Racism is anti-humanism, this I believe. I attend a fairly large public school and have attended public schools since kindergarten. While going through years of schooling, I had become friends with students of different ethnicities. I genuinely enjoyed learning about other cultures and how their families carried their customs and traditions from all over the world. Growing up, I was limited to what I could learn, seeing as I was brought up to be accepting of others, and ended up immersing myself into multi-cultural appreciation through my friends. I was blinded by the nature of those that discriminate against others due to race. Never had I considered judging someone for the way they looked. I quickly learned that not everyone thinks the same way. …show more content…

This became the same way I viewed my friends, no matter what they looked like, maybe not in the sense of being stuck-up or pretentious, but normal. That thought of everyone being ‘normal’ and equal and capable of getting along stuck in my mind until I was about 13. It was around that age that I had witnessed my first actual account of racism. A young man had begun to ridicule and bully one of my fairly close friends. The bully’s words and actions were very prejudiced towards him, calling him the n-word, poor, black trash, and other derogatory terms, just because of the color of his skin. This was something I had never thought of happening, especially around me. This kid calling another out due to their difference in color was new to me, and I had no idea how to react to the situation. The discriminating student and his friends had joined together and dehumanized my

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