LOC NGUYEN
ENG 095
Narrative Assignment
Due day: Oct 8th
PEOPLE ARE STILL CONFRONTED WITH STEREOTYPE EVERYDAY
In our contemporary life, many countries around the world experience a wide variety of stereotypes. We need to be rethought. It has happened many ways in the past until today. It affected people and touches basic human values either directly or indirectly. Let me share my personal experiences with this issue which happened long ago and I remember very clearly. How can we contribute to solution this issue?
Last summer I faced society discriminates. I love to travel to cities in the U.S, the first city I visited was Boston. One day, my nephew and I drove for a tour around Boston. I wanted to stop at Government Center to take a walk and take some pictures. I saw a parking space I decided to park my car parallel with other cars beside the parking meter. When I got out of my car, a female transportation police officer came and told me something but I couldn’t understand what she said. I told her to repeat herself slowly and she did, but I still didn’t understand completely. During my first time in the U.S, It was very difficult to understand and speak with English, I said. She understood that I couldn’t understand or speak English well so she walked to my car and told my nephew who seated in car, unfortunately my nephew was a new immigrant so he didn’t speak English either. After she explained many times, she had run out of patience explaining to me and she shouted at me “If you live in the US, you have to speak and understand English”. While I was thinking what to do in this situation there was a guy who looked Vietnamese picking up his car behind my car. I said hello to him and suggested he helped me to translate. He helped me to translate what police officer told to me and I did understand that there were around 20 minutes to park at that place because we couldn’t park after 5:00PM. So I drove to another place to park my car that took me around 10 minutes to come back by foot. I thought, I felt disappointed with her attitude because she shouted at me. I don’t believe that foreign people have to speak fluently and understand another language clearly before they travel to another country.
I strongly thought she didn’t use justice in my case. I met that police officer again after my nephew and I enjoy walking and taking pictures around Government Center. Then, I walked to the parking lot, took
