Being An African Identity Essay

Initially, growing up being African has always been a problem for me, too many people has always perceived African people and their cultural ways as indifferent, but that’s not the case. The inane comments that I use to receive from my peers because of the way that I spoke, the music that I listen to, and my true identity as an African really made me love and embrace my African heritage even more. I was in the second grade and it was my first day of school in the United States and most people just ridicule me for being African, all because they didn’t understand my culture or because of their lack of knowledge still did not make it right for them to make a mockery of me or my culture. The jokes that people made really affected me as a person, I remember I had to go and present myself in front of the class and people are focusing more on my outer appearance as being African rather than trying to figure me out as a true person. Although most people perceive Africans to be different, people tend to think all because you’re African, you automatically have an African accent when you start speaking
Nevertheless, people was just in class too focus on the way that I spoke that they missed out of a great opportunity to learn more about me or my heritage. Even though I was new a boy coming to the United States people could have spoken to me about African culture, instead they just wanted to make jokes about my culture. It didn’t matter what I did or say to make friends, people are always going to have some ignorant comments towards me. Even though most people are not properly informed I tried everything to make friends, but they laughed at me because of the way that I spoke. Despite the fact that I was African that doesn’t make it right for anyone to sit there and make fun of the way I