Jan 12 2009
Racial Profiles: Colombians
This is going to be a short article, no more than 200 words this time. As a Colombian guy living in North America, I have found stereotyping of who I am; I know I am not alone and I know that many other people have faced prejudice as well; but one thing I found is that I have been ridicule of my accent several times, when I was little I care about this, but now as an adult I think those people who ridicule are childish and ignorant. Several times on my old job, some of my so called bosses (who were American by the way) they treated me like if I didn’t understood a word that they were saying.
Hey! I don’t have any mental issues to be slow or I’m not an ignorant fool who have to be spoken like a baby, but I guess they thought one common stereotype “as I am Latino, I am ignorant” and I’m not ignorant, I’m a well prepared individual who can face any situation but I guess I was treated like turd those months, and I guess they didn’t understood the process of moving to one country to another, but well I leave that place without any resentment because it was only work and that’s all. I don’t care even if they read this, this is a free country.
One common stereotype of racial profiling I found at every airport, is if you are Colombian you are going to be threaded like a drug dealer or a scum, even if I am an American resident I will be seen with doubt and I know I am an honest human being, but I will be treated before in migration. Many of us Colombians we are seen with doubt, even if we have give everything to world.
I know in the dawn of the 00 decade, even with all the social advance movements, prejudice it’s still there and we have to give it all to fight it. (Wow 343 words).
