Introduction!

Hey blog readers! I am Alyssa Newland. I decided to take Ethnic Studies because of some of the things I went through as a freshman at Bowling Green with those of a different race that I didn’t really understand how to understand them or where they were coming from because I had never been faced with some of the issues that came up. The town I grew up was very small and was made of pretty much all one race, color, background, religion, and social class. When going away to school it was a big change for me that I felt I adjusted to very well but ran in to many other problems of not feeling accepted by those of a different background around me. I chose to take Ethnic Studies to be able to better understand other perspectives of those of different backgrounds than me!