ming's notebook entry: Sep 09, 2010

I had heard more than enough racial remarks subsequent to that incident and I even felt inferior to those who are white. However I couldn’t rebut to them because of my incapability to speak English perfectly and I was afraid to be made fun of if I had said ‘All races are equal.’
Then it was the first day of the second semester, Sarah Fox and I happened to sit at the same table in our art class. She asked if she could join me at lunch, and we became best friends before long. As we became closer, I had always thought she had a distinctive feature that differentiates her with any other. Firstly, her friends varied in race and color and she was welcomed wherever she went. Since she was a broad-minded person, she befriended with many different people and I also got a chance to get close to them as well. We were good friends. Whenever she heard stereotypical remarks like “Asians excel at math.” She would answer “Some of them do.” The way she looks at people doesn't let any prejudiced opinion like fixed ideas get in the way.