However, there are stereotypes floating around about certain races. They're there, hidden in plain sight. For instance, the group that I hang out with consists of mostly Latinos and Filipinos, and I usually hear jokes about Border Patrol directed towards the Latino half of my group and how that because I'm in cross country, Border Patrol can't catch me.
Your race does not really define who you are as a person, so racial comments and stereotypes should cease to exist. But that is not the case, people still tend to make stereotypical remarks because everyone has a little bit of racism in them, as stated in the article, Exposing Hidden Bias at Google.
Obviously, I'm not offended because I know I'm being messed with, that's just the way my friends are sometimes, and that's what makes these stereotypes okay at times. These jokes don't get out of hand at all because we have common sense. We can coexist with others who are not like us, and we don't really judge people by their skin color as much as before.
Having the ability to befriend people who are more diverse than you are is also great because you can learn more about their culture, as in what foods they like to eat or what music they like to listen to.
Overall, interacting with people of different race is what holds our society together. Once we lose the strong bond we hold in this community, Mira Mesa will never be the same and it will change for the worse.
