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The one aci of discrimii�ation that I'll never forget is when Megan (my cousin} moved io a <br />new house. When she moved in she invited me over. Wl�en I got over to her house il�ere <br />was a group of kids playing a couple houses down. So, we went to go see if they wanted <br />to play. When we asked the group of kids if they wanted to play they looked at Megan <br />really weird and sazd they had to go home. But, I realized when we got inside they were <br />still piaying. Even when I was leaving Megan's housc I noticed some of the kids were still <br />outside. As they saw me getting ready to leave one girl came over and said hi to me. <br />When I asked her why she didn't want to play before she said to me because they thought <br />Megan was really weird. <br />Being new gives one enougla. exposure, and thick, dark red hair combined with a chubby, <br />place face coated �rith freckles did not t�elp rnatters for poor Harold. Adding to that, he <br />worc glasses and a shy, puzzled, yet good-natures sort of smile...From the begi�uung, <br />things didn't go right for Harold. Throughout his first day he made jokes that no one <br />laughed at. Instead, thcy sniggered behind his back saying, "He thinks he's so funny. I <br />mean, come on, vvha would laugh at his jokes? Maybe his old classn�aies." They sneered. <br />"His classmates m.ust have been stupid Iike him." He occasional person would say, "It's <br />not his fault he's vgly and dumb. [ feel bad for him." Which was worse? Being pitied <br />because of looking strange and trying to be funny? Or bullied for thc same rcason`? <br />Discrimination-Race or Natio�ality <br />There is a student who sits diagonally from me who is from a different country, and speaks <br />with an unusual acce��t than the kids sitting around him. I'll ca11 him Fred, so as not to use <br />his rcal name. Fred, who tries l�ard to make friends and fit in, is teased ruthlessly by the <br />student sitting behind him, I'll call this student Joe. Joe tcases Fred because of his name, <br />the name he wants to be callec�, how he talks, and any other way �at Joe can think of <br />bullying hirn. Wl�en Joe isn'i taunting and teasing Fred, 3oe turns around and teases a kid <br />who's nationality is dif.ferent than Fred's or Joe's. <br />Often times ai school, I have been hearing people talk behind other people's backs like <br />�vhat clothing one wears, how t1�ey tallc, and how they act, maix�ly hecause of their race. <br />People of different races have beeii called inappropriate names. A person who docsn't <br />speak English well will often be called F.O.B. which meaz�s Fresh Off the Boat. I have <br />often heard people refe.r to African Americai� people as `ghetto'. <br />People call me names at school because of my race...People call me a coconut and an <br />Oreo. What they are saying is tllai I am brown on the outside, and act white. That really <br />hurts, because tlley are saying that I am prctcnding to be someone that I'm not. But I don't <br />try to be someone that I'm not. I axra who I am, and I will always be this way. <br />I used io know a girl by the name of Fatima. She was made fund of bccause she was frorrt <br />Afghanistan. A boy named Bobby called her "terrorisY' because of vvhere sl�e came from. <br />Fatima was a shy person who didn't have any friends to stick up for her, so she didn't have <br />much confidence. <br />