As I was growing up I never looked at myself as a complete Mexican. My parents raised me Americanized. However, my Freshman year of high school I had experienced linguistic profiling in a different form. Patricia Rice, author of “Linguistic Profiling”, states, “Many Americans can guess a caller’s ethnic background from their first hello on the telephone” (187). In other words, Rice believes people begin judgement by the sound of a voice. I personally experienced racial profiling with my own culture. While in summer school, a few Mexican girls approached me asking why I had a Mexican last name, claimed to be Mexican, however sounded differently than them. These girls were offended in class when I had claimed to be a full-blooded Mexican, however,