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An American Jew In this large city of ours situated on big spinning ball, inside a vast galaxy, and yet larger universe. We sometimes tend to leap out into the unkown embracing and fearing life on other planets, when we can not embrace life or lift up not to fear life on our own planet. We as a society have formed our own barriers when those placed upon us have been removed. We seldom see mixed neighborhoods outside of large cities. Even in our own borough we can see this for example Borough Park is mostly Religious Jews, the area adjoin Brooklyn College is mostly black, and Gerritsen Beach is mostly Italian.When someone who doesnt belong in a community invades that community, that community then will fear and reject the invaders. The community is like the indiginous people of an island, when the island recieves its first visiter from the outside, the indiginous people fear the visiter and fear the change they may bring.My family was the first Russian family to move to an a ll Italian neighborhood, I was told to go butt to where i cam from damn rooskies, the children used to yell and taunt my sisters and myself. They would scream go back to Russia eventhough we had never been there. and soon I made freinds with a topical anesthetic girl who accepted me for me, not for being Russian, but for being Diana. My parents didnt want me to get involved with the wrong kids and they also feared my friendship with people of different backgrounds. But our families began to talk and then we went over to each others houses for dinner and pretty soon, we were having block parties and backyard BBQs. We werent Russian anymore, and they werent Italian we had met somewhere in the middle. My mom now makes an awful lasagna and the Lauras mom (the girl I befriended) makes a great Chicken Kiev. We didnt belong to any one class, our neighborhood was no longer Italian and it didnt get Russian it estimable was. It was just a neighborhood, no classification, just a middle class neighborhood, it was gray.Gray is that color in among black and white, its not black, and its not white, its just in the middle. If you think about there are a lot of colors like that take pink for example its a mix between red and white, its not red and its not ehite, its just in the middle its just pink.