Education, Ethnicity & Racism
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I am a single, white 21-year-old female from a middle-class working backing. I am the second eldest of four children born to my mother and father. I have one older and one younger brother and a younger sister. We lived in the suburbs of New York, members of the working middle-class. My father was an electrician and my mother was a nurse while I grew up in our neighborhood that was primarily white. I went to a public school in New York and immediately fell in love with my teachers and learning. My teachers were very kind and serious about imparting knowledge to their students. I responded well to this approach, doing my homework, studying hard, and earning good grades. I had a special rapport with my English teacher, a kind woman with a sense of humor and a love of literature. She acted like a mentor for me through high school. Because of the love she instilled in me for language and the arts, I am now majoring in middle-school language arts and social studies. I believe the most important thing I have learned as an undergraduate relates to tolerance and learning. First, I have learned that the more I learn the more I realize I need to know. Second, my social studies learning has demonstrated to me the importance of role modeling in molding attitudes and beliefs in others.The first time I remember being truly aware of gender happened when I was about seven years old. I used to love playing with my older
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my familyÆs strict adherence to Catholicism, they were tolerant of other religious views. One time when I asked my mother why Jews and Muslims and other people had different religions or gods if our god was the God, she responded: ôGod is the color of water darling. Anyone who drinks is saved despite their color.ö My mother was very inclusive in her views on religion and often felt that some of the Catholic ChurchÆs views excluded others without justification.
Social Awareness
Though New York is a state with one of the highest percentages of different ethnic groups in the country, my own neighborhood in the suburbs was primarily populated by white Americans. I first remember learning people were different when I heard my uncle refer to some Italians in the neighborhood as ôdagos.ö I asked my mother what that meant and she said it was a derogatory term that referred to the Italian people. She said it was not something I should say, as it was offensive to Italians and others. The first time I remember learning of prejudice and racism came at school. At my school there were two Asian girls and the boys used to tease them mercilessly. They would call them ôchinksö and once, in the lunchroom, a boy asked how their mother had n
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Approximate Word count = 2173
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page)
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