Reflection Paper

The way I came to comprehend race was through social media and family. The matter portrayed individuals that looked like me that was the way I came to relate to them. I can connect it to the tenet of social constructions define as views of race are socially constructed and not biological (Delgado, 2001).I have vivid memories of English television shows that would stereotype Hispanics and when I saw that I related because to some extent I saw that in my own family and in my community. Being the influence that media played in my life can contribute to the fact that my parents did not interact much with me because of their busy work schedules. Yet reflecting back I do not put any blame on my parents, because at that time they were trying to be good providers. I

A significant life experience of my sexual orientation has to be since childhood my father speaking to me that men needed to date females. And my mother as well telling me that she wanted grandchildren all through my life being that I am her only boy. The biggest shaper of my sexual orientation has to be when my father would speak about females to me and tell me that one day I would understand how to “enjoy their company.” Males fulfilment is what is important, Females are purely there to influence it (Murray, 1998). looking back that affected me because when dating I had to seek in a partner all the criteria that my parents had placed on me. The greatest shaper of how I came to identify my social class was the environment I grew in. Growing up in a low social economic neighborhood I came to see that I was poor. With that I came to classify and see myself as poor because everyone around was in the same status as me none where lower or higher they were at the same level as I was. That impacted me in the way I would portray myself to others. I would first associate myself from the city I was from before anything. With that people already where making up their prejudices on me, given the part of town I was