Although meeting interesting people, and learning about different lifestyles can be a great experience growing up, living in a culturally diverse nation can sometimes be difficult. I , a Hispanic, was (and am) raised by parents who grew up in Colombia, a completely different culture, yet we've all managed to adapt to the American way of life. Yet, my parents" way of life is very different from other Americanized Hispanics from Colombia because of their religion. Culture, I think, is not only based on color of skin or place of birth. It is also based on religion and maybe economic standing. James McBride's "the color of water" is a deep memoir that places into focus some of the issues of cultural diversity. I believe it is true that when one thinks of cultural diversity, the word "prejudice" also comes into mind. In this book, McBride shows that everyone has a culture, whether it be Jewish, White Anglo Saxon, Black, or mixed, and that culture does not make one any less or better than any person in another culture, regardless of any stereotype, because everyone is a human being and we are all equal. In my life, this statement has and will also be proven.
As was stated before, living in a culturally diverse nation can be difficult. This is due to the amount of stereotypes that have been formed about cultures and skin colors. Im not only talking about whites versus minorities, because now, even minorities have .
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formed stereotypes about whites! People back then (and many times in the present) .
had stereotyped the blacks to be a culture of thugs and thieves, scheming to steal your wallet or watch. McBride's mother was a mother of twelve, living in a predominantly black neighborhood and knew that culture had nothing to do with character. She was .
white. "As a boy, I often found mommy's ease around black people surprising. Most white folks I knew seemed to have a great fear of blacks." (McBride 31).