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Examples Of Being Othering
Othering is defined as “not one of us” but then who are the us? It is human nature to identify someone that doesn’t look like you or have different heritage to label them as the “other.” Since birth you are surrounded by people like your family who look like you and are used to viewing them as “the norm” now becoming impossible to view yourself as the other as your perception is biased. As someone who has immigrated from India to America and do not look what people from India would look like I become the “other” and many questions are asked about how I ended up in India, if I was discriminated why I don’t look Indian and etc. I am a Tibetan refugee who was born and raised in India. India is my home and I never felt the need to explain what
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