Building Heritage Culture

On my first trip of service learning at Martin Luther King Middle School, volunteering for The Boys and Girls Club of Oceanside, I was amazed at what I was observing about preteen to teenage students about the ethnic culture interactions going on that make up heritage for them. An interracial system of communication I saw developing among races where it is normal to communicate within different races, and has replaced the old way of hanging out within your own race. This style is not uncommon and more different ethnic races are accepting racial differences and coming together, but in the 1990s, there were a lot of prejudice affiliations in the economy and back in the 1800s, kids were punished for playing with kids out of their race. I also observed less barriers of race power one ethnic group might have over another and omitted their ethnic culture to get along quite fine; white boys don’t consider themselves dominate over blacks or Latinos because of their skin tone color or race like, “Give me those cookies because I am white.” Back in the 1800s, it was probably hard to accept this new way of an interracial society because segregation between races was primarily accepted and it was going against your own ethnic culture to live with a different race like the Native Americans and European whites. Throughout history, like the civil war, there have been many movements that have stopped segregation and we have come to accept an interracial environment way of living like a rule- treat everybody equal. Society is coming to accept this form of cross culture structure more and more, and making America greater by accepting each other’s differences and uniting.