Growing Up With Assumptions July 4, 2009
-By Tonia Felix
I can relate to you completely. I never saw color growing up in my small white town but was name called all through my school years in Burlington, WA. I’m now in Portland, OR and just graduated in Funeral Services. I don’t speak spanish because people made fun of me so bad in school I wouldn’t pursue it. I’m have I’m “Blatina w/a touch of Native American”. I wasn’t raised around the Hispanic side of my family. I would love to know Spanish now that I’m older. People assume I speak it and just start talking to me. They look at me and wonder what I am. I agree people really need to get past the color of peoples skin. We’re becoming more multi-cultured and that is just how things are going to be.
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