Race Impact On My Life Essay

I believe that my race and ethnicity impacted my identity in major ways. Even though I believe race is not real but everyone does not know that race is real so it still impacts me in many ways. It impacts my life in many different ways especially in this city because I am white so in this city I experienced a lot of racism at many different degrees. Even though we are not different under our skin we all have bones and we all bleed blood. We also all have the same amount of chromosomes in our body unless you have down syndrome so we all have around the same amount of chromosomes. Race impacted my life in many different ways both in positive and negative. Mostly negative but there were still some positive in my life based on race. For example I got into many fights for being white. I also used to get bullied for my skin color. I even had to move schools because I was getting threatened with getting told I was going to get jumped if they saw me again. Now that I think about it I had very few positive experiences with my race if that makes sense. Another way race impacted my life is how society perceives white
So I feel like people from certain races expect you to listen to that type of music. It doesn’t impact my life that much but it still impacts my life a little bit so that why I included it. A big impact that ethnicity as on my life is the stereotypes of Irish and Italians which I am both of. For example a huge stereotype of Irish people is that all Irish people are drunks which is not true at all. I mean there still is drunk Irish people but not all of them are drunks. There also a lot of Italians stereotypes out there like all we eat is pasta. Which is at least untrue for me I mean I love pasta but I do not eat it constantly even though that sounds amazing I do not do that but I can see how that stereotype