EXAMPLE ESSAY

If you can imagine being a part of one culture and dealing with prejudice comments, envision yourself having two cultural traditions to follow and how people’s remarks will underestimate you. First, it all measures to the population of the people that don’t share the same customs as you in the area of which you are established. Second, if in the area you are found they’re not used to receiving or accepting diverse ethnic groups, most likely there will be disapproval. Also, there have been many families all over the world which have witnessed or experienced this insignificant criticism towards their culture. For instance, one family of which I have much knowledge towards this experience is my own.

When you move from one country to another, even though they’re linked in a way but very different in cultural aspects, you may have high risks of encountering prejudice. For example, my family is Puerto Rican, like many others, my parents moved to United States when they were younger; therefore, my siblings and I were born and raised in the states though we were showed customs of our other nationality. In Connecticut, we lived in an apartment building where there weren’t many people of our race, so in the area we were criticized because our customs. Some of which implied, celebrating holidays like Christmas Eve with loud music, dancing, family reunions with loud conversations, and the usual alcoholic beverages. Every now and then my siblings and I would go out to play with our friends but sometimes those friends would stop playing games with us because their parents would judge our nationality. Some would whisper “stay away from those Puerto Rican kids; they’re trouble” others would say the same but directly to us. Another example, once we moved to Puerto Rico we expected it to be different, we thought acceptance, but it wasn’t as expected. We moved to the countryside of Puerto Rico, not many “gringos” Americans settle there, so my siblings especially were bullied on school ground with excessive name calling and fighting. In the island if you don’t fight then you’re going to keep on getting picked on. So basically both nations were hard on us.

Of course, not everyone is prejudice or has been a victim of it, but in the case of my family, better yet my siblings and I, people whom share more than one culture and move to areas where not many people share the same customs, then it becomes difficult to avoid the circumstance. Many people whom are prejudice can’t accept other traditions that are not their own. People that experience prejudice don’t let go of who they are or where they come from to give in to their new home. It’s a conflict I believe will never terminate, but if we think about it the interaction of many cultures day to day may come about to more acceptance than before.