Most excellent Kate! Well written and very emotionally appealing. As an India-born American who grew up here in Chula Vista, SoCal, I came up against some racist people. Not many though. My best friends were white kids around the block. My best friends in high school were half Mexican on their mom's side. Sure did love the fresh tortillas their Abuela made on the weekends. My first girlfriend was Filipina. I really got into that culture as I was also studying Filipino martial arts at the time. I fell in love with and married a white woman with whom I had five beautiful half-Indian children. I have cousins married to Black Americans, Mexican Americans, Russians; you name it I think we're well represented in all the fields! I guess what I am saying is that the breadth of racial-cultural experience one has here in America cannot be matched anywhere else in the world. In the real America, the one most of us live in not the one the race hustlers live in, we various races get along with each other and actually enjoy it. That's America.
One of your best yet! Where I am (in two cities, actually) I go about my business day in and day out interacting with all sorts of people. I hold a door for men and women alike, of all ages and colors and they do the same. All are universally pleased and they all smile and express thanks. It is normal. I have no way of knowing anything past the smiles on their faces but I suspect that they feel as I do that I and they are just equal humans trying to live our lives the best we can. Be courteous and the favor is returned.
Most excellent Kate! Well written and very emotionally appealing. As an India-born American who grew up here in Chula Vista, SoCal, I came up against some racist people. Not many though. My best friends were white kids around the block. My best friends in high school were half Mexican on their mom's side. Sure did love the fresh tortillas their Abuela made on the weekends. My first girlfriend was Filipina. I really got into that culture as I was also studying Filipino martial arts at the time. I fell in love with and married a white woman with whom I had five beautiful half-Indian children. I have cousins married to Black Americans, Mexican Americans, Russians; you name it I think we're well represented in all the fields! I guess what I am saying is that the breadth of racial-cultural experience one has here in America cannot be matched anywhere else in the world. In the real America, the one most of us live in not the one the race hustlers live in, we various races get along with each other and actually enjoy it. That's America.
One of your best yet! Where I am (in two cities, actually) I go about my business day in and day out interacting with all sorts of people. I hold a door for men and women alike, of all ages and colors and they do the same. All are universally pleased and they all smile and express thanks. It is normal. I have no way of knowing anything past the smiles on their faces but I suspect that they feel as I do that I and they are just equal humans trying to live our lives the best we can. Be courteous and the favor is returned.
Thank you for all you are doing!