Discrimination In The Works Of James Baldwin And Richard Rodriguez

James Baldwin and Richard Rodriguez are writers or authors with similar stories based on racism and religion. Baldwin recounts his stay in a tiny Swiss village where he was the only black man and relates his experience in this village with his experience as a black man in the United States. Besides, Richard Rodriguez focuses on race and diversity; his principal concern how Hispanic learn to adapt to American society.
For vacation, Baldwin went to a Swiss village where he was the only African American present. He felt uncomfortable and did not why the village people stared and treated him different from everyone else. They thought his hair was the color of tar and it had the texture of cotton. He was living a nightmare which no one can wake him from. There were about six hundred people, and they were all Catholic. Baldwin did not see them as unkind, just unaware of black history in America. For example the children shout,

Niger! Niger! He walked along the streets yet he reacted patient with them.
Unlike, Baldwin saw
Europeans as racist centuries ago, both Europe and America had Africans as slaves, but, it was much less common than in America. Although in America, African American are not strange because the history the Americans were created for them. Finally, Baldwin shows us because of why African Americans in Europe are treated differently than those in America.
So, Richard Rodriguez brings us how much a person adapts and conforms to a society, where he states people can’t adapt to different cultures, or traditions because they don’t know how to define themselves. For instance, there was a little girl that called herself a

"
Blaxican
” because her mother was Mexican and her father was African. This caused her to have difficulties with her personal identity because she did not know where she belonged. Also, Rodriguez discusses the effects that immigration has on the United States. There are many Hispanic people who are discriminated based on their legal status or language. They have easily accustomed themselves to impersonating a third race, a new third race in America. But Hispanics are an ethnic term. It is a term denoting culture. For example, some children really don’t know how to say what they are, while they are living a culture at home and another with an American society.
In contrast, Baldwin focus about the discrimination in Europe and the religious aspects of the life.
But, the main concern of Rodriguez is the difficulty of the adaptation of the Hispanic community in the American society. Both Baldwin and Rodriguez make the point that dark skin makes people feel shame. Both reveal similar racial issues, so African and Hispanic communities have experienced a lot of difficulties of the skin color.
In conclusion, I am against racism because I know the discrimination that these people from different races and skin color face. We are all equal because we all are human beings and have rights. Also, we should talk to children about their cultures and educate them on this issue. The only way of finishing with racism would be by finishing with the social, economic and political injustices that are generated in the society. Baldwin and Rodriguez promote to stop the suffering with racism because they lived their own
experiences.