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Culture Shock

College Life

By Annabell BahenaPublished 6 years ago 1 min read
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Culture Shock

Brown,brown,brown,brown,Asian,brown,brown,black,black,black,brown,brown,brown,brown,black, brown, black, black, black,Asian, black, black, brown brown…

18 years later… College move-in day…

White, white, white, white, white, white, Asian, white, white, white, white, white, white, Asian, white, white, white, white, white, brown, black,black, white, white, white, black, white, white, brown, brown, brown, white, white, white, white, white,white, white, white…

“You’re being weird and a little bit racist,” they tell me.

Because this is the way I categorize my surroundings, it has always been this way.

Living in a segregated “ghetto,” “hood,” and poor neighborhood. You are raised to see things in a colored and segregated perspective.

Why? Well, that was how the big white man in power created it. Something not a lot of people on campus know or like to talk about.

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