CULTURE CROSS PERSONAL NARRATIVE

Culture cross personal narrative

culture cross personal narrative

Introduction

Conclusion

Culture Cross: A Personal Narrative

“ I will sue you for calling me a mexicano, now you're dead” this was one of the threats I got for being simple, I questioned him “why the hard feelings?, why does everyone has to take everything I say personally and get offended, I don't actually mean them, then why?” I was asking myself these questions after I was threatened to be sued twice. I had no idea what the problem of the people was, ever since I came to USA I was greeted with hostility and hatred. I felt that everyone is against me; I felt that I was the part of the problem. I was very scared of everyone that I might offend them in some way. What made matters worse was that I am an Arab and my actions were called racism and I was being labeled as a Racist. I guess I had no idea what racism was.

I don't feel like living in this country anymore, I want to leave as soon as possible. I was welcomed in this country by threats of being sued. I came here to study but by judging the behavior and the circumstances I feel like I will be spending my four years in Guantanamo behind bars. Back in my country no one took these little things personally or got offended. We used to call African American “???” which literally means “Slave” this referred to them being slave in the past and to Persians we used to call them ???? which means “English” even though they aren't. No one really took this personally or got offended they used to laugh it off. I started to distant myself from others and started living in isolation. I stopped speaking to everyone because I was afraid I might hurt someone, I was living without feelings. I had decided to hide these threats from my parents as I didn't want to worry them ignoring the fact that they may have a solution and an explanation to all of this. It really is funny being dull and not looking for ways to solve this problem. I thought I was being brave by not telling anyone but I was just building up a huge mess around myself.

I saw only two options, the first one was to go back home and ...