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First day of sophomore year, looking through the syllabus of AP World History, I began to seriously question why I had chosen to take such a rigorous course on a subject I didn’t even enjoy. History was always boring to me because every year before tenth grade I had been stuck with a teacher who presented facts, names, and dates in a monotone fashion that presented to me a very dull view of what history as a subject really was. It was in AP World where I had the privaledge of having a teacher who was passionate on what she taught, and a course that gave an intensely more detailed view of history. It was no longer a set of mindless facts, but the story of mankind and why the world is the way it is. It also came to my attention how little control …show more content…

said, "Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.", I believe he meant that we need to look at the world with an open mind and not fall victim to blindly following what we believe are our “own kind”, because despite the differences in race, religion, sexuality, nationality, or any other factor that divides us, we are all human beings trying to make the most out of what life is. Learning more about different cultures and their origins has made it hard for me to hate anyone because I feel that regardless of my personal view of them, I know that if I heard they while background I would understand. The reason history became so important to me is because as someone who is Middle Eastern and Muslim there are many misunderstandings about my ethnic background. There is the large stereotype on my ethnic culture as being radical and that “all Muslims are terrorist” and because of this, for the longest time I was embarrassed about where I was from and hated my background. I no longer feel this way and have grown to embrace my culture and even make it one of the favorite things about myself. The false accusations toward my religion have come from ignorance, and I never want to be one to hate any group or culture solely because I don’t even know anything about

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