Sometimes I think we live in a world that can look pass judgments based on how a person looks, and I am not talking about how a person dresses, but based on a person’s race or ethnic background, then I realize that people still judge other people based on ethnic background or someone’s ancestry.

I think people should be judged on how they are as a person, not how they look on the outside. I think it’s amazing how people still in this day can’t look past on someone’s skin color, facial features, or cultural differences.

Myself being mixed with Korean always comes up, whether it‘s positive or negative, it seems that people like to think they know me just based on my looks. I am either embraced or hated just based on that one thing and really this should never be a reason to judge any person purely being based on what someone is genetically or physically. I never want to be liked or hated just because of what I am based on how I look.

How about we look at people for who they are, not what they are. Whether they are good person, responsible, intelligent, caring, helpful, outgoing, someone with integrity, honor, someone who is genuine, works hard for what they have.  These would be things I would want to be judged on, the type of person I am, not what I look like on the outside. Of course this will never happen, people are stuck in linear views and they are completely content on being in their fish bowl.

It is pretty sad to me that people use someone’s ethnic background as a deterrent to get to know someone, I mean it limits oneself to truly experience the full extent of the world for what it is, instead people want to live in a bubble and are content in that. I learned a long time ago that negativity will never change anyone’s point of view; if anything it will drive people away. People’s natural reaction to negativity is to be negative right back. I try and stay positive even in the face of negativity.

I remember as a child being treated differently just because I looked different then everyone else, being called every derogatory name there is, and it did hurt a lot, and it made me an angry person for a long time. It took me a very long time to just accept the fact that people are going to be the way they are no matter what I do, and myself being angry all the time doesn’t help the matter at all, it doesn’t help me be a better person, and all I can do is be me and hope that people see that side, instead of what is on the cover.

I could write about this all day long, but I am going to cut it off short because I think the point is there.  I do think unless you can sit in the shoes of someone who has been through this, and understand how even just words can be just as hurtful if not more than as being physically being beat down with a bat, you will never know how painful one person’s words can be.  

I hope in time that people can truly see people for what they are as a person, not just what they look like.