What about the Asian, Hispanic and mixed kids?

I guess the mid-west is a lot different from the south because I grew up in a mid-west city and have spent lots of time in Texas and there are mixed kids and couples everywhere. Just recently I went to a wedding in a small town in Texas at a country club, the bride was white and the groom was black. I guess that will be as far south I will travel.

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From another post:

When I was little, my mom told me about the segregated school systems, and I had asked her about the Asians. Like what school did they went to, the black or the white one. And she told me that anyone that wasn't white went to the Black school. So, I guess the Asians went to school with them, but this was a very small town. It doesn't have much today, so it didn't have much back then. I assume there weren't any Asians families here, and if there were, I don't think they would of stayed long. Especially when they could go to a bigger city and have better opportunities for jobs and whatnot. But I don't know if that applies to the proms or anything.

I’m also from a small town in Southern Mississippi, right above the border to Louisiana. In the Deep South, basically. The main prom at the school was for everybody. This was the prom the school sponsored, and raised money for, and whatnot. But there is a separate prom. This one is done on it’s own. If you will. The school seemingly doesn’t having anything to do with this prom, people have it on their own, on their own terms, and they raised the money for it by themselves.

I do notice that, some people tend to hang out more with other people of the same race or ethnicity. I think everyone does that. I guess cause their race, or where they live, or their religion allows them to relate more with one another. Stuff like that.

Um, I’ve never really had to go through anything racist. Not that I can recall. But I have heard about racism in my town. During Hurricane Katrina. We were affected by it. We hand no power, limited resources, and were basically trying to get everything back together after the incident. Well, there was this gas station down town. And they wouldn’t sell gas to the African Americans. I wasn’t there, my mom told me about this, so I don’t know how they played it off or got away with it. There’s definitely a division between the African and the European Americans here. I’ve heard stories at how European American families would just up and move if they suddenly got an African American neighbor. In the media, & in school. It’s always ask was this a white person or a black person. Like that’s one of the first questions you ask. With the older people. Like my mom. She went to high school and all back when everything was still segregated. There was the white school in the middle of town, and there was the black school at the edge of town. There was a very big gap between the two locations. There still is, but instead of the white and the black school, it’s the elementary and the high school. My mom said when she was a little girl walking from school, some white guys drove by and threw eggs at her.
At the schools today, basically we all get along. I mean some of these people I have known since kindergarten and others, even preschool. Though you can see, that the European Americans have more European American friends. They relate more with the European American teachers, and the European American teachers seem to relate more to them. You would more often see a European American student hanging, and joking around and just talking with European American teachers then you would with the African American teachers. Some of the African American teachers actually are a lot more strict and even mock their African American students more than their European American students. It’s common knowledge that the European American students get away with a lot more than the African American students. The African American students just have more judgment on them, I think. I know, in the community college, they won’t let African Americans be roommates with the European Americans. And my sister, she’s in college, and she hated her African American roommates. She said they were loud, messy, and just a big annoyance, and plus she did not have the best dorm room either. She so wanted to have a dorm room down stairs. They were the better ones, but they kind of gave the European Americans those rooms. And my sister wanted a European American roommate, cause she figured they might be much better than her African American roommates. But the school won’t allow it.

In my school, African Americans were definitely the majority. I’m multi-racial, like many African Americans today. I’m of Native American, European, and African decent. My family ranges from dark skin to light skin, from black to red to slightly dirty blonde hair.
At school, I have seen African Americans in all shapes and colors. Most of my teachers were African American. I can recall even sometimes being in a class with nothing, but African American students with African American teachers. There is no doubt that the African Americans outnumbered the European Americans and especially the Asian Americans. There was not even a handful of Asian Americans at the school. I don’t think there was even a handful in the whole town. You never saw an Indian, or Southwest Asian or Muslim person. I remember that it was not until High school that I actually shared a class with an Asian person. This one guy, he was Vietnamese. He was a nice guy. And he hung out with both the European and the African Americans. They were his friends, they sat together, they joked together in the classrooms, shared music, talked about girls, teachers, and whatnot. But, he moved. Then there was the Filipino girl. Everybody liked her. She was new, she was exotic looking, many people thought she was Mexican or Hispanic cause she had the name, the accent, the skin tone, etc. There were boys from every race that wanted her. She was spunky, outgoing, and smart. And the first thing I heard about her was that she was going to be popular. On the first day she arrived too. She got along with mostly everybody, but I usually saw her hanging out with the African American girls. Like I said, no one knew she was Filipino, so, they were surprised to hear she was Asian. She did not look like your stereotypical Asian person to them. I’ve seen, she kind of gets upset when people still call her a Mexican, when she’s obviously told them she’s Filipino. But I think some girls just do that to get on her nerves.

I do know, that a lot of people here are ignorant when it comes to other ethnic groups. They based things on stereotypes, cause in a small black and white town like this, you don’t exactly see many people of anything else.

I definitely do think there are prejudice at the schools and in the town and communities. I’ve heard people who don’t like Mexicans. One European American boy in the classroom, openly admitted in front of everyone that he doesn’t like Mexicans. No one made a fuss about it. They just shrugged it off. You don’t like Mexicans, whatever. There was no known people of Mexican decent in the classroom or school. So, it was like whatever, no one made a big deal. None of them were Mexicans. If he had said African American, then there would have been a big deal. My sister’s Cajun boyfriend is very open about his prejudice. He makes a lot of judgments based on race and/or ethnicity. His biological grandfather was white. He has white friends. His brother has had white girlfriends, spent holidays with them. Yet, he still says, he won’t dare trust a white person. And my sister, we’ve both had a love with the Spanish language and the Hispanic culture. We both took Spanish in high school. He doesn’t like Mexicans, and doesn’t want to even listen to the language they speak. I don’t know what to say about it. My sister seems to exhibit the same behavior. She doesn’t seem to know much about other people’s cultures, and doesn’t seem to really want to know. She goes by stereotypes a lot too. I mean she still refers to every East Asian looking person as Chinese. And I’m like no, that’s Japanese or Korean, it is different. And she kind of shrugs a lot things that are Asian off. It’s not that she’s racist against them, she just doesn’t really know much of anything about them. And I think that’s the main thing that’s a problem here.

Religion is also something that people are prejudice against. I remember being in a classroom. And we were going over social studies. Free discussion. Just about anything that was happening in the world today. And then comes up about the discussion of Muslims. And people are like ‘I don’t like them’ ‘God doesn’t like them, he’ll send them to hell’ And the teacher is like, ‘yeah their evil’ And in another discussion about how the government wants to erase God in the Pledge of Allegiance and the B.C and A.D stuff. And one girl was like, ‘Well everyone should be Christians.’ And some people even mentioned that if they don’t like it, then they should get out. And I’m kind of appalled by it. I’m not Muslim, but I felt so uncomfortable with them just ranting on about how bad and wrong they are for having a religion that is not their own. I’m a very open minded person. I love learning about other’s people cultures. I’m more fascinated by it then anything else. I enjoy watching foreign movies, listening to foreign music. I’m just very interested with learning more about other people, and how they live and view the world. I think I’m the only one in my immediate family that does.

But to most people, I’m a Black girl, multi-racial or not. And some expect me to fall into the stereotypes of a Black girl. I’m supposed to like Hip-Hop and Rap. I’m supposed to fall head over heels for the Black guy. I’m suppose to talk like they do. If I don’t, then they would accuse me of acting white, or trying to be white.
I find nothing wrong with the style of Rap and Hip-Hop. Some of their themes and messages I don’t approve of, but you can find stuff like that in almost any genre of music. And I’m a person who would listen to any type of music. No matter who sings it, no matter what type, no matter what language. I don’t discriminate when it comes to the many genres of music. I adore interracial relationships. I think they are awesome, and very symbolic. Like these two different people from different races and ethnicities can just come together and love each other. It shows we don’t have to hate one another. We could get along, if we just made the effort to. There are a few interracial relationships at my school, not many. And most don’t seem to last for very long. One guy told me, that he liked this Black girl, but he couldn’t date her cause her parents wouldn’t allow her to. And this white girl said her parents see nothing wrong with her having black friends, but they don’t want her to have a black boyfriend.

But I’m ranting here, so I’ll just stop. So sorry.


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