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Reading and writing

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be yourself

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To be a teacher

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My first kiss

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I have thoughts and people in head,they need to get out

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Dancing with the stars

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Cleaning classrooms at our high school

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See my first boyfriend again after 25 years

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My mother

Society & Lifestyle > Social Values & Norms Reflections: Classifying people

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I started out as a "colored person". In the fifties and very early sixties, people of African-American or Negro descent were simply called "colored" people. Native Americans were called "Indians" and people of any Asian descent were lumped together as "Orientals. Most Hispanics were dubbed "Mexican and Africans, and other more obscure people groups were rarely mention.

"Colored was not considered derogatory unless it was used by a Caucasian, or as we referred to them, "white" person in a condescending context. I.E. ,"You colored folks love eating watermelon."

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