Project Mulberry

Project Mulberry was a book that i enjoyed a lot. I found some of the parts related to my own life. I know what it is like to mistake someone for a different ethnicity, and I felt terrible about it when it happened. It was when I was moving into a different apartment, and I was going in blind. The housing manager had told me that my new roommate was a girl that was studying here from China. When I went to meet her, I asked her why she decided to come here from China. I should have asked her where she was from first, but I was trusting what the manager had told me. She is in fact from South Korea. I explained to her what I had been told, and she said that she was not surprised that he would have automatically thought that, but she was really bothered by the fact that she had talked to him many times before and told him more than once where she was from. Even though it did not directly happen to me, I had a sense of what Julia must have been feeling in the book. I would be extremely annoyed if someone had not taken the time to think about my culture and group me with whatever they think I look like. It is ignorance, and I think that it is hard to fight since most people are rather ignorant to the fact that they even are being ignorant.