Discuss a time in your life when you experienced culture shock. Based on your knowledge attained in this course, what role did ethnocentrism play in this experience? What did you learn from this experience?
In a point of my life I was kicked out my house and had no other choice but to live with my uncle in Ohio. The culture shock that I had experienced moving to a white ignorant suburban society never gave me anger toward a group of people like that before in my life. Being ridiculed as a Hispanic that was looked worst upon than an African American, a Middle eastern or anything else put my mind in utter confusion. The ignorance that society had was so disturbing that they did not comprehend the fact there was different nationalities of Hispanics. Me and another kid Jalil we’re the only two Hispanics in the school and even though I am Puerto Rican and he is Colombian they categorized as “Mexicans”. He turned out to get more respect around the school campus because he was one of the prominent soccer players. It didn’t take long till I had to I had to kill their pride of ethnocentrism by showing my skills on the basketball and be their starting point guard for their 2008-2009 season.
They didn’t think Hispanics were better athletes than whites but in the end it doesn’t matter the race totally because skill and practice isn’t determined by race but by the amount of time you put into a sport. Their idea of ethnocentrism placed their white society from living in their little bubble above all other ethnicities. The most vital part of the culture shock I experienced was getting arrested by what I come to believe the most racist cop I ever came across my whole life. A simple assault charge turned into assault, and bantering misconduct to a lawed officer. Knowing I was right I fought the case and got a simple misdemeanor. After experiencing the harassment by the officer in the holding room at sixteen years of age gave me mixed views of that white community. Although growing up and becoming wiser and having more insight that there are just some people in the world you cannot change made me a better person today than that cop would ever be.
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