I can manage the task 1 but task 2 in TEF is definitely a struggle. I am currently studying B1. Dm or comment here if you can help me improve my speaking skills in another month or two.
I grew up in a third world country in modest areas and people were warmer and genuine. Obviously, there were shitty people too but every third person I ran into was genuine. However after living the last 8 years abroad in two different first world countries surrounded by people from many nationalities and even my own. I feel unfulfilled. Most of the friendships ended up being transactional and superficial. People I have spent time with would not even meet me at the basic needs. As I transitioned and felt, these individuals were more individualistic, superficial and lacked emotional depth, especially empathy. Even the people from my own country who immigrated here felt the same if they were well off or privileged. However, the rural wealthy were more nicer than the urban wealthy from my own country.
I am not denying racism is bad or affects all types of people. But I personally have been noticing how scarring it was growing up as a minority in a third world country in a middle class family surrounded by privileged people who were a majority. And I faced similar struggles in a first world country as a minority and as a struggling international student. I am just trying to understand if others think the same too.
Sometimes I come across videos where people who are better off have incidents of racism but they are able to brush it off and move on with their life. Their life allows them to do so not that it creates a rift in their life’s but you get it. But just my thought.
I mask my actual life when I socialize because of cptsd. However, recently I have realized how much I have to twist stories to make it fit into a comfortable story for the people of privileged class around me. As a person from middle class person I have to act different and lie to fit into that part of that society because I can’t avoid it as I live surrounded by people like them and I’m workplace too.
It is the victims who are weak and responsible for the assault. I saw a video where someone young was getting kicked by three others his age. He was fighting his best and people still commented what kind of a coward is he? No one held three kids his age assaulting him accountable or questioned their actions. How and why is this normal- god knows why.
I am a beginner but I would like to start self defense classes. I want them to be affordable and not expensive. Any recommendations
I have lost hair over the years but wondering if my hair is really thin or thinning. Any advice would be appreciated.
Like are we not equal? Are we not adults? I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that people in 21st century give importance to skin color- something not in our hands.how is white skin the prime beauty and darker shades ugly? Like who decided it? And people believe it- educated ones.
For some reason In spite of my dark skin tone- I never for once resented it growing up. Yes there were people who commented on it constantly. But for some reason it didn’t get through to me. It just felt unreal that your life is dictated by skin color of all the things in this world.
Edit: not coming at you people if skin tone has affected you and you have resented it. That’s not my point. My point is I can’t still believe the world is not over the aspect of race and color. We should have known better by now but apparently we don’t and people don’t want to change.I am not invalidating your experiences. I am standing in support asking- why are we still being treated based on our skin tone?