Discrimination Happens Every Where

Discrimination happens every where

America is a land of diversity because of the migration of people from all over the world. Although this may be the land of diversity, we face a lot of discrimination. It does not always matter what color your skin is, or how you look, you still face discrimination of some kind in life. Discriminations happen all the time, even within same racial ethnicities. I have based my subject on Loretta Adrian, which I had the pleasure to interview. Loretta grew up in the Philippines where she attended many years of school and earned her bachelors degree. She moved over to the United States in her early twenties, where she has experienced life in San Diego where she got married and had two children. Having married a Caucasian man, she shared experiences about her children and adversities that they faced being half Filipino and half white. Not only had Loretta Adrian and her children been challenged with discrimination here in the United States, but she has also faced discrimination in the Philippines as well.

In the Philippines, most of the discrimination was through class because everyone was the same ethnicity. After speaking with Loretta, she stated that most of the discrimination was because of the way someone dressed of the amount of money that they made. Racial discriminations didn't take place because everyone was Filipino. It seems as if we see the same thing happed all around the world. We often find that

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Filipinos who immigrate in the United States do not receive acceptance from Filipinos who are natives of America. An example in the book "Home Bound" shows how a Filipinos who immigrated to America found comfort in hanging out with different races other than Filipinos. "In the same way, mocked by his Filipino American peers, Dario Villa" found comfort in the company of Mexicans, other FOBs, open-minded Filipinos, and others who accepted me unconditionally."" (Espiritu 185). Throughout the chapter of "Homebound" there were many examples of how Filipinos who migrated to America found that their friends were Mexicans, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans. "Nicholas Santos likewise found that his African American friends were more accepting of his immigrant background than were his Filipino American classmates." ( Espiritu 185). Problems like this seem to happen with all different racial ethnicities. I have seen it personally myself in Chinese people. Chinese people who come to America trying to look cool, but they really get made fun of because they dress different and they don't have that much money. It is obvious to see that all they want to do is fit in.

Loretta Adrian faced racial discriminations were people assumed that she did not speak English. In the interview, she told me about an incident in a grocery store where someone talked to her like she didn't speak a word of English. After completing her bachelor's degree in the Philippines she came over to the United States and found herself applying for jobs in secretarial positions. She later found that she should be aiming for higher positions. It was the help of one of her peers when they said "Why are you applying for secretarial positions when you are capable of so much more". It was after

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that