My Stereotypes

Yeah, I'm stereotyped all the time. Even more so because I am Dominican and Haitian, therefore Hispanic and from the islands. Many of my friends, not my close ones, but still people I knew, like my classmates would go "Hey Giiiirrl!!" sometimes and I would just give them a death stare because they know I'm not like that. I hated when they did that, not because I never did it, but because they never said hi to any of their other friends that way so why do they have to do it to me? But usually I just never answered and usually they never got the hint. But it's whatever, some people just don't understand.
Another stereotype I've had to deal with is being Haitian. I've gotten so many, "Do you do voodoo?'s" I just want to answer yes so that person will get scared. Just because a person is from Haiti or has Haitian origins doesn't mean they do voodoo. All of the Haitian friends I have are Christians. And let the record show that my dad is a pastor at a Baptist church so I definitely do NOT practice voodoo. That is what I tell the people who ask me that ridiculous question.
Yet another stereotype I have to put up with is because of the friends I have. I hang out with a lot of Spanish people because my mother is Hispanic and we speak Spanish at home, well I answer my mom in English but still. I just hear people all the time "She thinks she's Mexican" or even "She thinks she's white" because I was in International Baccalaureate. I just ignored them. In the future when they are still in the same little town and I am travelling the world with my amazing salary they can eat their words.