"Your experience has so much to do with how you view difference and how you approach being in the world. For example, in the grocery store, if someone comes down the aisle, I always preemptively move to the sideāIāve had many experiences where I get a glare or a huffy scolding or even a racial slur if the person feels Iām in the way. My parents did the same; years of experience as part of a racial minority taught them that to be noticed often means being harassed, so they try to avoid attention of any kind. On the other hand my husband, who is white, continues whatever heās doing. His reasoning is āIf Iām in the way, theyāll just ask me to move,ā and heās right. The world treats him differently, so he sees it very differently."
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