Intercultural Analysis on Race and Skin Color

Running head: INTERCULTURAL ANALYSIS 1
Intercultural Analysis
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INTERCULTURAL ANALYSIS 2
INTRODUCTION
Race and Skin Color
We live in a world today where we find ourselves in situations that we might find compromising
or not fair to ourselves at all. The idea of intercultural is a human being able to live with or be
around people whom the person thinks is somehow different from himself perhaps due to the
skin color, gender, religion, physical appearance, and other factors. This paper is giving an
analysis of a situation of the race where a student used to conduct an interview gave his remarks
on his opinion over how his skin color has made him different in the eyes of everyone.
The issue of racism around the world does not come as a surprise. This is because many parts of
the world have experienced the cases of racism whereby majority discriminate the rest due to
their skin color. My analysis comes from conducting an interview with a black student who lives
in an all-white neighborhood as he was adopted by a white family from Africa when he was little
(Landis, Bennett, Bennett, 2009).
The first problem we had to tackle was the issue of identity where I had to know from my
informer how he identifies himself when living with a white couple in a neighborhood where all
the rest have problems with skin color. It is, therefore, a challenge having to grow up in such a
community where no one is welcoming and nice to you except our own family (Knowles, 2010).
The issue of identity was therefore addressed by the client where he responded that support from
his family made him go through the phase of an identity crisis as with a supportive family one
can accomplish anything (Jackson, 2014).
It is discriminating having to live with people who are not like you especially as a child since in
that age what a child needs is someone who can understand him and probably speak the same