Personal Narrative: Non-White Privilege Discrimination

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One of my experiences resonated me about the film was with non-white privilege discrimination happened about three years ago. My family goes on a camping trip yearly as our family tradition. We reserved 6 campsites at Big Basin. We divided into two groups and designated two sites for cooking and gathering place. We went back and forth to all the campsites and spent time talking among adults while children were running around. Earlier evening, a white male came to my group and told us to turn off the portable generator with an unfriendly manner. We just politely said sorry and thanks. The next day, the other group told us that there was a white lady, the man’s wife, who walked to our campsite and accused us of lying about the number of people per …show more content…

Without knowing the situation, she already assumed that we were over the limits. Our group told her we had sites for our group, and we didn 't need to lie about anything. She walked off and went to report to the campground ranger. Minutes later the ranger came to talk to the group. We explained to him that we have six sites for our family, and told him that it was not right for her made a false accusation. In order to spend time with each other’s, we just gathered together at the two sites. Instead of leaving us alone, the ranger told us that all of us could not be at one site. I felt we were discriminated against because we were Asians. She bluntly accused us of lying and not even apologized. And later on, they had a group at her site and made noise, but no one said anything to them. If we weren’t people of color, we would be treated different and with

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