So, as you can imagine, it was easy to discriminate against people who weren't in my life. My father is very racist, as are all my grandparents. Because of my mother, this didn't wear off on me, but it still had an impact. One I'm still battling. But the more I am exposed to people of other races and cultures, the better I am at defeating those prejudices and false opinions. Western Michigan University helped me a lot with this. I used to fear Arabs and now I'm perfectly fine with them. It sounds terrible, but I had never met an Arab before. All I had seen was Osama Binladen, Saddam Hussein and 9/11 on TV. Like I said, I lived in a very Republican community where I had never heard anything good about an Arab. So I was just learning from the people around