What’s my race? What’s the Ethnicity that came from?
My country is one of the most diverse when we talk about race and ethnicity.
But what it really means?
Race is if you are White, Caucasian, and Black. Ethnicity refers to ancestors, religion, or language.
The society looks to each person and instantly qualifies everyone based on its skin color, language, body type, nationality…
It happens with us. It happens from us.
We already have concepts based in our personal experiences, based in others experiences, based in what the mass media says, or just based in our on thinks.
I came to The United States about 06 years ago. I spent most of my time being a student, housewife or/and a stay at home mommy. Before that I had opportunity of a good education, cultural and language knowledge and a good profession. About 02 years ago I was invited by a friend to work with her. Sometimes we would be serving in parties. Sometimes we would housecleaning… Let me tell you! We can make a good money cleaning!... Besides that, one point calls a lot my attention: Every single time I show up for a first cleaning, the clients is amazingly surprised that a young, thin, pretty and well educated woman is there to do housekeeping… Why is that?!
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