Be honest, are you a little bit racist?

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12. I am a reformed racist (I think I am reformed)

Coming back from Vietnam I hated Vietnamese. Then I became controller of a manufacturing company who hired Vietnamese workers.

I had to interact with them and getting to know them helped me overcome my hate toward them.

I also believed that Mexican immigrants were negatively impacting my life.

Then the million immigrant march happened in Los Angeles where I use to live. I listened to young people tell how hard they had it in Mexico and that they just wanted a chance to have a better life for themselves and their families. I began to have empathy for them.

I also learned that my anger toward them as impacting me negatively and not changing how things were going.

So I have had Vietnamese coworkers who were the children of the kind of people I had spent my year in Vietnam with and got along with well.


I also live in a city that is 75% Hispanic and I love it here.