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"My family and I experienced discrimination" - issue of importance [3]
Discrimination: unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice. This term enormously affects our society. Even though discrimination was heavily seen in the past, it still
is present in
modern American society. For instance, my family and I have experienced discrimination in our lives. Sometimes it was because our race, color, or the fact that we could not speak English. However, this issue has not stopped me or my family to move forward and succeed in our lives. "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is what
my family and I learned from our experiences with discrimination.
My family and I started to experience discrimination once we arrived in the United States. As immigrants it was expected. The first time my family was discriminated
against was when
she was trying to obtain her ID. This event took place in Crockett, TX the town where my family and I live now. The lady who attended my mom and dad was very discourteous and aggressive in the way she
attended my parents. She asked
countless questions as if she was interrogating them of a crime.
" Where do you come from?
" " Where are you going to live now?
" " When did you become a resident?
" I clearly remember her
saying to my dad
, "Why are you answering my questions? Can't your wife talk?",
to which he answered, "She does not speak English." The lady then replied in a degrading manner "That's what I thought." In the end, she said that she was not able to issue my mom an ID card with the excuse that my parents did not provide enough information for her identity.
My own experience of discrimination took place when I enrolled in high school in the same year. I was only seen as one more Mexican boy who did not speak English and that was trying to go to school. I can
vividly remember the first days of school; walking timidly into the classrooms looking for a seat near a person of the same ethnicity, trying to hold myself
back from running away from a place where I was
being made fun of . I remember being called "wetback", "beaner", "illegal", and other offensive terms that I could not understand at that moment. I was discriminated. I couldn't
defend myself of all those offenses. I felt like a little ant that was being threatened by human; playing with me as
if I was a toy.
However, as discrimination existed around me and my family so did tolerance and fairness. My teachers and counselors were always supporting me and encouraging me to keep working on my education. They never doubted my potential to exceed in school. As for my family, our neighbors were very
respectful and
kind to us. They offered us their help and support in anything we needed.
Despite all of the difficulties we faced, we managed to move forward and overcame our obstacles.
Discrimination can cause many obstacles that may prevent a person from succeeding . It is an issue that has not yet disappeared from our society. But working together as one union I believe that we can abate it significantly in order for our society to progress.
I fixed some of the grammar and spelling in your writing. There may be more that I haven't caught.
The topic was well presented in your writing and your arguments and examples further defined it. I think this essay is well-written, but I would advise just to read it over aloud so you can catch some of the grammatical errors you've got.
