Race and Neighborhood I was asked to write a paper on what I am passion about? I asked myself what am I passion about, the only thing that comes to mind was racism and the way people experience it. These integrated mission classes have opened my eyes to see a lot of different within neighborhood and community. Integrated Mission experience has given me the chance to listen to people story and to see where there they are coming from. In my experience, I see the distinctiveness in culture, and the ethnicity and where the poverty lines stop in the certain neighborhood. I would ask myself why that is? They are only a few blocks away from each other. What make it so unlike? I come to realize that sometimes it had to do with race and culture. My belief is that if we are all made in God’s in own image, why we treat each other so differently because of the status we hold in society. More so, why the neighborhood is so complex concerning class division. This was hard for me to wrap my finger around some of the things I saw and heard. My concern is not a social problem it is more a people problem, people have the right to make changes if they want to. We all carry the same DNA, which means we are all children of God. But yet we treat …show more content…
People has to change their belief about how they feel about individuals that are not of their culture or ethnicity that is the only way will bring and outcome in the behavior. As I look back I realize that The Salvation Army Corps are placed in most poverty streaked areas. I did not understand the reason behind the geographical symmetric, until my encounter with Integrated Mission. It is not about the problem in these places, but is the process why The Salvation Army was placed there to united the community, I know now that is my duty as a future Corps