Examination of Your Personal Culture
1. I am very proud to be African American. 2. There is nothing that I am ashamed of or embarrassed about concerning my culture of background. 3. I love learning new languages, so I admire many cultures and races that speak in different languages, especially those who learn English as well. 4. Prejudice is everywhere and one example was when I was a child at school I remember another student being prejudice against me using words of slander against my race. It hurt but I got passed it knowing that it didn’t really matter what they thought. 5. I have never purposely been prejudice toward anyone. 6. I think stereotypes are ridiculous and should be ignored in all respects. 7. Growing up I just lived my life, I didn’t try to be anything I wasn’t and I didn’t fall into the lockstep of societies expectations when it came to stereotypes. 8. When I was in school I had another student treat me less than fairly because of my race. I didn’t really do anything about it because I knew it would have been a waste of my time. People will always have prejudice and people just