I notated this paragraph by reading through it and then highlighting the most important parts of it. I agree with the article because it is true that most of us grew up around our own race, which indeed gave us little opportunities to interact with people out of are race. When i was a child, i was always around my family members, and the first time i talked to a person that was not Vietnamese was probably in pre-school. Even though it is not right, there is still segregation in the world because lots of people want to around there kind, but also because of stereotypes that make us not wanna live near those people.



The impact of racism begins early. Even in our preschool years, we are exposed to misinformation[3] about people different from ourselves. Many of us grew up in neighborhoods where we had limited opportunities to interact with people different from our own families. When I ask my students, “How many of you grew up in neighborhoods where most of the people were from the same racial group as your own?” almost every hand goes up. There is still a great deal of social segregation in our communities. Consequently, most of the early information we receive about “others”—people racially, religiously, or economically different from ourselves—does not come as the result of firsthand experience. The secondhand information we do receive has often been distorted, shaped by cultural stereotypes, and left incomplete.