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Race In My Community

Race in My Community
Jen Clark
University of Phoenix


When I began research for this paper, I found it interesting how unaware and uninformed I actually was with racial issues here in my own little world. I think the fact that I was raised to be “color blind” contributes to my ignorance and oblivity to the people surrounding me. Yet another factor is that I now live in a fairly conservative community with very little diversity in the way of race and culture. I grew up in a much larger city which exposed me to every race you can imagine, and I have carried my views regarding the positive interactions I had then into my adult life. Here is my take on the diversity of the much smaller community I live in today.
The City I live in now has roughly 18,000 people as permanent residents. Since well over 9,000 of these residents are Caucasian, I would have to say that most of the people here do look like me (Creek, 2006). I do have a few pink colored streaks in my......


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Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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