being foreign

As we would know I'm not from this country, and just came to this new environment one and a half years ago. Everything was new to me when I fist got here, from culture to food to customs, but things started to settle in as I got into senior year. There are certain struggles of being a non-native speaker, yet one cool thing of being foreign is you could look the US from the outside. I was able to compare US with my own country, and found out race plays a huge role in this society. Before I came here there were no concept of race since my country's majority was a single race, and when I came here I just saw people with different colors. Having little knowledge of race and the influence on society I thought it was just a label to differentiate one from another; however my thoughts took a turn when I took this class, and I realized race was everything in this society. From social hierarchy to economical advantages and how to be treated, critical race theory was heavily enforced on this society. No matter which state we are in we have to face some kind of racial circumstances, and to cut off this aspect is impossible.