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Discrepancy Between Ethnicity And Bilingual Analysis
I really enjoyed to discuss and share ideas with you folks last night. As an international student, I had problems to understand discrepancy between race and ethnicity. Therefore, finding my place on those little boxes, which we fill on documents, is still not easy for me. I sometimes have question my identity who I am? What I am doing here? Which planet am I from? (Since, I am an alien, according to the USA.)
I feel that identifying a human being with only his/her race is very shallow and bias to other good features and characteristics of that person. While we re-introducing ourselves, we revealed more about ourselves. It is not like we are different person from the first week class but, we shared other faces or identities; mother to a child,
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