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racism effects my life everywhere .for example at school. my school is divided into groups by race usually. the mexicans hang with the mexicans and the blacks with blacks whites with whites and so on. it effects me because i am white and mexican so im in the middle, but alot of my friends are asian so i hang out with them too. for the most part everyone gets along. there are disagreements at times, fortunately theres been nothing major. when i'm at my cousins house in La Puente there is alot of racial disputes. the blacks and the mexicans do not get along at all. they are always fighting. one time i was going to the store and there was a fight going on in the parking lot, it was something about a gang and a bad look, but they were fighting and it was getting pretty bad. the police arrested five people by the time i got out of the store, and it makes me wonder why people would just beat eachother without even doing something to prevoke it. one of my friends had trouble with another kid they were both asian but one vietnamese and the other korean. my friend told that they were going to fight. i asked why and he told me because he's korean. to me thats a weird reason to fight, but then again it happens all the time like when i was with my cousins at the store. i guess it has to do with history what has happened in the past that makes people of different races want to fight eachother, most likely because they were treated badly or unfairly. that is how rascism is presented in my life, and i deal with it everyday by not being offensive to people that i dont know.