So, as you can imagine, it was easy to discriminate against people who weren't in my life. My father is very racist, like all my grandparents. Thanks to my mother, it didn't really rub off on me, but it still had an impact. The one I always fight against. But the more I am exposed to people of other races and cultures, the better I become at overcoming these biases and false opinions. Western Michigan University has helped me a lot in this area. I used to be afraid of Arabs and now I'm perfectly comfortable with them. This sounds terrible, but I had never known an Arab before. All I had seen on television was Osama Binladen, Saddam Hussein and 9/11. As 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 people around