Example Essay

Many groups of people have been victims of prejudice. Write an essay about people you're familiar with who have been victims of prejudice.

      The prejudice by definition is considered the act of preconceiving an opinion not based on reason or experience. Most of the people have been in this position but haven't notice at all. For example; when we have to try something new (food or activity), meet someone new or when we judge someone by his ethnicity.

     Since little we have learned that chance isn't always good so we don't try something different from what we are used to. When our parents suggest we eat a new food, we'll probably say that we don;t like it even when we haven't tried it before. Or when a friend proposes to do a different activity like going on camping instead of going to the beach we say no because of the mosquitoes, wild animals, etc. and and we lose such a great opportunity because of the things we've heard or read.

     Another situation in which we are very prejudiced is when we are introduced to someone or we are in constant contact with somebody, we start criticizing and pointing all the flaws that person has without giving his/her the chance to really show his/her true color. That is mostly constant among the teenagers who spend their time not knowing each other and just talking behind the backs.
   
     Of all the situations/examples I have given, this last one is the more I'm connected to. We, the Puertorricans, are always saying jokes about the Dominicans without thinking how they feel about it. I say it because my parents go through that, my mom is white and my dad is not Dominican but is black. Since the beginning of their relationship my grandparents (my mom's parents) didn't accept my dad and don't allow her to be related to a black person. To the limit that my mother went to live by herself and no one of her family, except one of her big brothers, went to her wedding. My mom started talking again 'normally' with my grandparents when my brother and I were born.

     I believe no one has the right to make feel bad another person because of the color of the skin, their social status or anything that is not under their control. I also say that "don't judge a book by it's cover" because you never know the wonderful journey you can have. You just have to try something new, no one say that if you don't like it, you have to keep doing it, we only say it might be worthy the chance you take.

Always yours - Lizangelyn :)