Personal Narrative: My African Dressing Style

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People used to misjudge me because of my African dressing style.

People are always skeptic in front of everyone who looks different. In fact, others had misjudged me during my early first days in America, because I was always in traditional African outfits. They were assuming that I could be unkind as a friend, incompetent as a worker, or unwanted in their area.
My integration in US took so long because it was difficult for me to make new friends. Everyone who was looking at me in my Traditional African cloth was a little scary at the beginning. Brief people did not think I could be a civilize man and then I could be kind and smart as a friend. Then they were avoiding any contact with me. For example, I remember that one day at church, during the
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In fact while I was going to the job interviews, different manager thought I was not able to handle any position , just by looking my dressing style. I remember many of them asked me during their interview in which village in Africa I was from, and others managers used to remain me the basic things before asked me to try, like I needed to know and understand that in US, men and women are equal, and how it was important for me to keep that in my mind n during my days at work. In addition, I noticed later how some coworkers did not feel happy to have me in their team. I remember , my supervisor told me how I needed to be patient because it was difficult to introduce me in any shift because some of my coworkers didn’t want me in their shift, just because I was dressed different. However , my real pain came from some customers, who used to skipped my services and preferred the one of my coworkers , just because they thought I wasn’t able to express myself in correct English , and give them a good services. All those misjudgments chased me from many jobs before I realized my great mistake to show the difference by staying