Mba Personal Narrative

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When I was fifteen years old, I got my first job as a basketball scorekeeper with the Metro Basketball Association. Although it was for a limited amount of time, one basketball season to be exact, I enjoyed the ability to combine both my love for basketball with making money. Evidently, I did not make much money, but my employment with the MBA provided me the opportunity to explore different areas in the Halifax Regional Municipality and score various games in which I met plenty of parents, referees, and witnessed the beginning of what was to be some talented basketball players. Nonetheless, despite having my beginner’s license for a few months, I had yet to drive far from home, which is why I distinctly remember my experience driving to East …show more content…
This is where things get interesting in the context of this week's material exploring race, ethnicity, and place. The majority of the people I talked to, although black, did not know much about Bermuda or Barbados and the role Barbados, specifically, had in Nova Scotia’s history: “Bajans returned, so to speak, to Cape Breton to mine its coal and to work at the steel mills” (Clarke, 1997a). In other words, the people of this community, although they recognize the ancestral or ethnic histories exposed in their skin colour, consider themselves fully Nova Scotian. This is exactly what they are despite Canada’s inability to consider them as such; it challenges what seems to be Canada’s nationwide notion of acceptance or tolerance conveyed in the terms “African Canadian” and “multiculturalism”. Without realizing it, these terms fail to consider black people, and people of colour at large, as being of origin in Canada and, therefore, not coming from somewhere else. This country is their home and has been since before Canada came to be known as
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