Acceptance
- Acceptance Of Women In Sport, By Society - Acceptance Of Women In Sport, By Society As a social, historical and cultural issue, our...
- Test - Test Acceptance is a hard word to define. There are many areas of acceptance that...
- Acceptance - Acceptance Ladie s and Gentlemens. this my acceptance speech . please everyone...
- Acceptance - Acceptance Junior Jillian explained, People are frequently excluded form certain...
- Acceptance Of Women - Acceptance Of Women The Myth of Women In agreeing with De Beauvior, I do believe that the...
Submitted by dieselm5 on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
- Category: Book Reports
- Words: 702
- Pages: 3
- Views: 22
- Popularity Rank: 4314
Acceptance
In my first year of high school, a student who had just come to our country was placed into my global history class. She was from Turkey and her name was Farah. When I first saw her she seemed very introverted and somewhat aloof. I automatically assumed that I would never like to know Farah. However my global teacher gave me the personal responsibility of showing Farah around the school and making her feel at home. I thought to myself, how could I even speak to a girl that presented herself the way she did. She was wearing an outfit that I had never seen before, and her sharp facial features made her stick out from the crowd. I later realized that I felt this way because of my immaturity and my total ignorance about her background and culture. I was ashamed to realize that I didn't even want to get to know the girl simply because she grew up in a different environment and looked different from myself and my peers. After I helped her find some of her classes and began to learn more about her--I began to really like Farah. She was polite, outgoing, and just a truly lovely human being. The next day I had lunch with her and talked to her about the many aspects of her culture that contradicted parts of American culture. As the son of immigrants, I was able to assure her that this was a process that we all go through. I let her know that what had helped me the most in my own identity struggle was to remember that my decisions were my own. I assured her that she would find a balance between adapting to life in America and retaining elements of her rich Middle Eastern culture.
Often treating every person equally regardless of how they look or how they present themselves, is easier said than done. People hold prejudices mainly because they don't know much about the functioning of others, whether it is their culture, religion, lifestyle or place of origin. It seems that the human mind finds it much easier to criticize and judge rather than to learn and to...
You must Login to view the entire paper.
If you are not a member yet, Sign Up for free!
