sociology homework

Mengxue Hu

Reflection Paper #2

10/20/2015

Topic: “explain how your race and class has influenced your life experiences.”

I was born and raised in China which makes Race and ethnicity has not influenced me that much. I have not considered any of these problems before I came to the states. From what I heard, racial discrimination is common especially in the United States. People make their decisions not on one’s achievement but on their racial group. For our Asian especially Chinese, the situation of model minority is around us in many ways.

After I finished my freshman year, I was looking for a job on campus, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do until my math professor found me. When I took her class, I basically knew all the stuff because those were what I have learned when I was in grade 9 in China. When I took a nap on her class, she ignored me because she knew I knew all of those without learning. I became the math tutor without a doubt. When I was trying to help students out, a lot of student were asking me some questions like “how did you know that without using the calculator?” or “I heard all Chinese are good at math, is that true?”. After I learned the lecture from class, I realized that belongs to model minority.