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Stereotypes In Chemistry Class
How about the all Asia people look alike stereotype, I can say, I’ve insulted quite a few Asians as well as embarrassed myself when I mix up one Asian person for another. Just this semester, I has math class with an Asian girl, I noticed at the end of the day, I also saw her in my chemistry class. Towards the middle of the semester, I realized I would need help in math as well as her notes from chemistry on the days I won’t be attending. I decided to go up to her after pre-calculus one day to ask if she’s in my 3:40pm Chemistry class, to my surprise, she told me she wasn’t. I asked her if she was sure because the other Asian looks just like her! She said no once again. I was pretty embarrassed, I told her sorry and walked away. I still convinced it was the same person, so I went to Chemistry that day hoping to see the same girl, maybe she misunderstood me I thought. As I walked in class, my eyes were focused on finding this Asian girl, she wasn’t there. She’s late, I thought. A few minutes later, she walked in, I said yes, that’s her! But it wasn’t the actual girl from pre-calculus I spoke to today. I was more embarrassed for accusing the girl of being in my Chemistry class when she wasn’t. I was still in disbelief, I got caught perpetuating the old stereotype of all Asians look alike. I always tried not to …show more content…
This issue is real and I have to hold on to this prejudice to never forget that I’m apart of a group that has to work ten times harder than whites to get what I want. If I eliminated this, I feel like I’ll be apart of the groups of blacks who aren’t “woke” and believe that we have just as much equal rights and opportunity as whites. For me to give this prejudice up, the world would literally need to be a better place. More like a Utopian type of society, and I feel that will never happen, so my prejudice against whites are here to stay. This is my human
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