Narrative Essay On Race And Ethnicity

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Race refers to groups of people based on various sets of characteristics, such as the outside features as well as hair, skin, or eye color. For instance, white people are distinguished from South East Asian people. Specifically, Americans might have brown eye, brown hair and white skin or green eye, blond hair and white skin, but all South East Asian people are known to have yellow skin, black eye and black hair. On the other hand, ethnicity indicates groups of people who have common nationalities or shared cultural traditions. For example, a Caucasian person from England may share similar racial characteristics to a Caucasian person in France, but they have completely different ethnic backgrounds in which they speak dissimilar languages, have distinct traditions, and may even have opposite beliefs …show more content…
There were two Mexican men who were driving a Time Warner Cable's truck approached us from behind. One of the man rolled down the window of the truck and started following my father and I as we were walking to where we parked. He suddenly yelled out to me, "go find a motel, don't '…' here" (The word was just so disgusting to even mention in a story) I ignored them because I did not want to involve in unreasonable and uneducated people. They were pissed off because I kept on walking without even looking at them, and as they drove pass us, they screamed "go back to your country." My father had no idea what they were screaming since he cannot speak English, and he kept asking me what they were talking about. I just told him that those men were crazy. I just did not understand how they would think of such disturbing idea in the first place, and how they have the right to tell me to go back to my own country as if they were Americans themselves. I was sad more than angry, and I was sad because they did not even have a brain to think before they