Week 3 assignment

1. What was the author's purpose in writing this story?
Well, I think the authors purpose was to inform the reader about how the world today, portrays on how people think about discrimination of race. She uses her feelings, and her own experiences to infrom the reader that this world portrays people by color and ethnic and not about on the person in general. This world I believe will be plagued by the poison that is discrimination and racism
2. Write about an experience that you might have in dealing with diversity.
Well, diversity can come in many shapes and sizes such as age, gender, appearances, race, religion, disablitities. Well, I was stereotyped because of my race once. It was somewhere around middle school, in the begining of the schooll year. I was always the quiet one, as you can tell. But I remenber one of my class student sasy to me if I spoke english. I guessed just because he assumed that I was hispanic, quiet, a maybe becuase i looked like an esl student, he assumed i did not speak english. But we were in a regular class and I understood english well, but i still felt a little down on his comment. Many people think that discrimination is all about race an ethnicity, but people can be discrimanted by there appearnces such as height, weight etc... I remember, becuase of my height back in elementary school, i was called a shrimp. I was probalby the smallest kid in my grade. It always made me down, but as time grew, I also grew.
People need to learn how to respect each other. To many people judge people on first appearances, such as their color or appearnces. But, they should rather judge people on whats on the inside, not the outside. Diversity is awsome when everyone respects each other, but this world, i believe, will never get rid of the poison known as discrimnation and racism