Mixed Race Analysis

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Everyone is unique in their own way. Some different religion, large families, single mom, twins, or even more. My one aspect that I have always found interesting is that I am a mixed race. I am half white, part Mexican, and part German. I am Mexican from my dad’s side of the family. The other races I get from my mom’s side. It’s always nice to see how each of the different sides of the family uses their race. Each family has different food styles, and the way they say or do certain things. It makes life fun and enjoyable when things are different.
Since I am half Mexican, it is fun when sometimes I get asked what race I am and they just look at me funny when I tell them I am half Mexican. Sometimes I get the saying “Why are you so white then?”. That is because I am only half Mexican, not fully Mexican. I would think that sometimes it gets a little old but it does not. I still laugh every time I get that comment or question asked. I would think after being around my grandma, I would know how to speak Spanish or at least understand it. There are some words that I can understand a little bit but my grandparents can speak fluently, so it gets fast so sometimes. I just shake my head to pretend I know what they are saying. There is even a little funny part I like to tell my grandma, it’s “now say it back in English for …show more content…
I will always be the same person I was from the beginning. It is being unique in your own way. In this quote that Joybell says “I am not a little bit of many things, but I am the sufficient representation of many things. I am not incompletion of all these races, but I am a masterpiece of the prolific. I am an entirety; I am not a lack of anything; rather I am a whole of many things. God did not see it needful to make generic. He thinks I am better than that.” Joybell meant by that was everyone is equal not matter if mixed race or not. Nobody is judging me for being the culture I was raised

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