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For this oral history written report I was very provoke to find someone with a quite interesting and culturally various family background that I think would contribute a lot to the idea of prejudice and stereotype. This paper leave behind discuss the views of stereotype and prejudice of my interviewee and to a fault how the two factors have affected her life. Brown (1995) defines prejudice as a negative attitude, emotion, or behavior towards portions of a group as a result of their membership of that group. This negative attitude, emotion, or behavior that we project toward members of a finicky group is influenced by the attitudes of others around us and the norms of our ingroup. In this paper I would try to use the interviewees stories which in many instances ar filled with treatments of prejudices and stereotypes coming from herself and others.The person I interview is FDG, a 23 year-old female college student with a Motion Picture/Movie intersection at the Academy of Ar t in San Francisco. FDG was born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her father is Indonesian and her generate is from Turkmenistan (formerly part of the Soviet Union). Her father comes from a very religious (Moslem) family in Sumatra and it was quite a horror to his family when he decided to marry a foreign Jewish girl (her mother then converted to Islam when FDG was 7 years old). FDG comes from a very homely economic background, both her parents are chemical engineers. FDG express that she grew up in a very sheltered environment where al around every she call for were provided for.As a child of a mixed raced couple, FDG becomes a member of the minority group in the country she was living in where most couples come from similar economic, religious, and ethnic backgrounds. FDG now ac whopledges that during her childhood and adolescence she had encountered and experienced stereotyping and prejudice.Because Russian is her first language, in kindergarten she was teased by her friends for non being adequate to(p) to speak Indonesian fluently and feel different than the others. Ive eternally hated my blonde hair, says FDG, one time a friend criminate me of being an albino Indonesian I guess he couldnt feature the fact that I had a Russian mother with blonde her too In the 4th grade she got into a fight and punched a schoolmate after he yelled, Go back to where you belong you Russian terrorist FDG remarks that looking ba... ... being categorized in the Chinese group. FDG knows what it feels like to be disadvantage against, without realizing it she still cannot help from being a prejudiced person herself towards certain(prenominal) members of one group (Chinese Indonesians). Like many of other native Indonesians, she likewise has adopted some prejudiced views against Chinese Indonesians. When I ask FDG if she realizes that she is treating this particular group with the same stereotypes and prejudices that she was treated with while she was living in Indo nesia, she says yes. FDG said that she acknowledges it but later on comments that she cannot help but be influenced by the perception of the majority. Although FDG may always encounter prejudices and stereotypes in the future, she now know that it is important to get to know a person based on their intelligence and not by their ethnic backgrounds. Now that she is living in a more international environment such as San Francisco, I think FDG is now able to broaden her perception towards prejudices and stereotypes and hopefully she will finally come to terms with her own diverse heritage and not have negative perceptions regarding others that are different from herself.