Haven't uploaded for so long =P Sorry to disappoint my two followers... and Mrs. Lucking =P So, today I had a very tiring and unbelievable thing told to me. Today, I was told that because I am Chinese, I will not get a job as easily because employers will choose white people over myself.
So... Since my parents are of a Chinese background, it will be more difficult to be employed? Is it really such a huge factor in this day and age?
If so, why did all those teachers, all those stories, shows and people tell us otherwise?
Why would they have told us that we can do anything we want to, anything we dream to be, when in reality we can only truly ever be pushed aside because of race?
Why would they put all these ideas of equality and dreams of successful careers and lives when we have all these restrictions?
To be cruel? For fun? To kick us in our blissfully unaware state?
No, no that can't be it. I refuse to believe that. The mere fact that they would get it into our heads so fast and at such a young age has to be enough proof.
It isn't that I haven't expected a little racism, that's not going to be completely gone in my lifetime. I mean look at how long it has been since slavery has been abolished and still the deep scars have not completely healed. So how can racism, which was so much a part of human life only a mere two hundred years ago, be completely gone in such a short time. I expect a little but the way that person said it... the way his eyes looked, it was as if, it had hurt him deeply, stolen his dreams away, crushed them. Then after that, all he did was live his life around that prejudice, around that broken dream.
But I think I know why he told me, he didn't want me to be shocked and hurt like he was when he encountered it. He's trying to warn me, protect me, but, is it truly better that I've had this terrible unbelievable truth forced upon me?
It doesn't even feel like its happened to me, its like its happened to some character I'm writing about...
This is a terrible way to ask Ms. Lucking but is it really true? Could I get your two cents on the topic?
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