Personal Narrative: Violence In A Middle School

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From my personal experience, the oppression I had to face was violence during my middle school years. I attended Hodgkins Middle School as a sixth grader; the beginning of this year was definitely a nightmare. There were a small percentage of Asians who attended this school, I would say around 10 percent and majority of the students were Hispanic. I had a total of five classes where I was the only Asian girl and all of my classmates were Hispanic who knew one and another. Every single day, I would hear them mocking the Chinese language or approach me and call me China. It was humiliating because I am not Chinese and I was surprised that the teacher would hear all these insults, but never took any action. As for me, I did not have enough courage