Community Identity

In the interview that I conducted about myself inside my community I have found out a few different things that I did not necessarily think about before I gave out the interview. I realized after the interview that the community I lived in was very culturally diverse. I lived in a town that was half Mexican and as a teenager growing up there, my school was fifty percent Hispanic. In my community, the education was not very high leveled compared to the rest of the United States according to the interview. As a part of my community I can relate to Gerald Graff’s short story about his troubles with reading as a teenager. As a teenager for me, reading was never a first priority and that also seemed to be the norm within my community as the same with Graff’s. He said that people would sometimes beat people up due to their intelligence, although that is not the case within my community, most people didn’t read though. The average student in my town had around a 2.8, didn’t read and also, sadly enough didn’t care. School for a lot of people was never a first priority. Gerald Graff seems to have grown up in a town that education was also not most teenager’s first priority.