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The one act of discriminatian that I'll never forget is when Megan (my cousin) moved to a z�ew house. When s�e zxzo�ed in she invited me over. Wi�en I goi over to her house there was a group of kids playing a couple houses down. So, we went to go see if they wanted to play. When we asked the group of kids if they wanted to play they looked at Megan really weird and said they had to go home. But, I realized when we got inside they were still playing. �ven when I was leaving Megan's house I noticed some of the kids r�vere still outside. As they saw me getting ready to leave one girl came over and said hi to me. When I asked her why she didn't want to play before she said to me because they thought Megan was really weird. Being new gives one enough exposurc, and thick, dark red hair combined with a chubby, place face coated �ith freckles did not help matters for poor Harold, Adding to that, he wore glasses and a shy, puLZled, yef good-naiures sort of smile...From the beginning, things didn't go right for Harold. Throu�;hout his first day he made jokes thai no onc laughed at. Instead, they sniggered hehind his back saying, "I-�e thi.n.ks he's so funny. I mean, come on, who would laugh at lus.jokes? Maybe his old classmates." They sneered. "His classmatcs must have been stupid like him." He occasional person would say, "It's not his fault he's ugly and dumb. I feel bad for hirn." Which was worse? Being pitied because of looldng strange and tiying to be funny? Or bullied far tbe same reason? Discriminat�on-Race ox Natio�al�ty There is a student who sits diagonally from me who is from a different couz�try, and speaks with an unusual accent than the kids sitting around hirn. I'lt call him Fred, so as not to use his real name. Fred, wl�o tries hard to rnalce friends and fit in, is teased ruthlessly by thc student sitting behind him, I'll call this student Joe. Joe teases Fred because of his name, the name he wants io be called, how he talks, and any other way that Joe can think of bullying him. When Joe isn't taunting and teasing Fred, Joc turns around and teases a kid who's nationality is ditferent than Fred's or Joe's. Often times at school, I have been hearing people talk behind other people's backs Iike what clothing one wears, how they ta1k, and how they act, mainly because of their race. People of different races have been called inappropriate names. A person who doesn't speak English well will often be called F.O.B. which rneans Fresh Off th.e Boat. I have often heard people refer to A#irican American people as `ghetto'. People call me names ai school because of my race...People call me a coconut and an Oreo. What they are saying is that I arn brown on the ouiside, and act white. That really hurts, because ihey are saying ihat I am pretending to be someone that I'm not. But I don't try to be someone that I'm not. I am who I am, and I will always be this way. I used to know a girl by the name of Fatima. Shc wa.s madc fund of because she was from Afghanistan. A boy named Bobby called her "terrorist" because of where she came from. Fatima was a shy person who didn't l�ave a.tzy friends to stic�C up for her, so she d�dn't have much confidence.