Right now I live just outside (as in a mile or two) the Northside area you are talking about. I used to live a little more in that area. It was a little strange being practically the only white girl there.
When I was in the 6th grade, I went to a school where I was one of a handful of white students in a school full of black kids. I don't care what anyone says, it is very strange and sometimes uncomfortable simply because you get LOTS of stares and everyone else listens to rap music or R&B or whatever and you don't.
However, I went to high school in Azle (no one knows where Azle is!!) where there were TWO black kids in the high school the entire 4 years I was there, and maybe about a dozen hispanic kids. I'm not sure why, but people always think that I'm part white, part Asian and part mexican (usually I get asked if I'm part Chinese or Japanese). I didn't mind being asked that, I always liked that I looked not completely white, but it was somewhat strange to me that SO many people would ask me my nationality and assume that my culture was different and that maybe I even knew some lanugage other than English.
My family is Chickasaw and Choctaw Indian (on my dad's side, there is a little indian on mom's side, I think. . .but we still have some full-blooded indian relatives on dad's side) and so I guess that's why I look "different." Haha.
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Date: 2003-01-19 11:37 am (UTC)When I was in the 6th grade, I went to a school where I was one of a handful of white students in a school full of black kids. I don't care what anyone says, it is very strange and sometimes uncomfortable simply because you get LOTS of stares and everyone else listens to rap music or R&B or whatever and you don't.
However, I went to high school in Azle (no one knows where Azle is!!) where there were TWO black kids in the high school the entire 4 years I was there, and maybe about a dozen hispanic kids. I'm not sure why, but people always think that I'm part white, part Asian and part mexican (usually I get asked if I'm part Chinese or Japanese). I didn't mind being asked that, I always liked that I looked not completely white, but it was somewhat strange to me that SO many people would ask me my nationality and assume that my culture was different and that maybe I even knew some lanugage other than English.
My family is Chickasaw and Choctaw Indian (on my dad's side, there is a little indian on mom's side, I think. . .but we still have some full-blooded indian relatives on dad's side) and so I guess that's why I look "different." Haha.