My own experiences
...times. I would go home and tell my sisters and they both would tell me not to pay any attention to them because all they wanted was attention because they never got any at home. And throughout years from third grade to eighth grade we learned in school the reasons why the blacks were. Then when I joined the Army in September 1980 and went to boot camp in Fort Jackson, South Carolina there was a vast amount of cultural diversity. Ranging from Puerto Ricans, to Japanese. My own experiences Page 3 That’s where I came in contact with an enormous amount of prejudice among the different cultures. I was difficult for me to believe there was still so much hatred in the world. The mentality of most men was viewed that the women be home bare foot and pregnant. So we as women had to prove to men that we were as qualified as they were. In which we women completed more tasks at a faster pace than they did. Then, however, when I graduated from boot camp and went to Germany there was even a more diverse cultures to learn about since I have never been outside the United States. Over there, there is Turkish, Greeks, and various other ethnic groups. But foremost Germans are the most fascinating to me. While there I went to school to learn their language just to be able to talk and go shopping. Also that was the first time that I had ever tasted food from another countries. The foods were great, but my favorites are German and Greek. The Germans were not easy people to deal with. They would look at you going down the street as if you were there to take what was theirs. For example when I first got to Germany ...