What It Means To Be Colored Me

I do not have any issues with the story How it Feels to be Colored Me because Zora explained her perception. I could feel her pain or going from an innocent child who sees no color to another era that sees color before it sees you as a human being. I imagine her shock when she leaves a town that is primarily Black and ventures to a town where Whites are the majority. I guess this was another lesson that she had to learn the hard way as many Blacks do. I do admire her courage to walk with her head held high and to appreciate the differences between Whites and Blacks. The bottom line as she stated, we are all made from one God so that makes us the same with different characters and features.

In a perfect world, everyone should be a real friend. But, for these a list of traits should be reached and, unfortunatelly, most of the people don’t own the necessary characteristics.

“Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less”(183, par. 6) is how Hurston views her world as she states in her story, “How it Feels to Be Colored Me”. She took great pride in herself, instead of her ethnicity and showed amazing resistance to stereotypes. The both of us tend to be just alike when it comes to embracing our individuality. Individuality allows others to see the distinguish in a persons valued parts from another, while stereotypes can easily remove that with other peoples expectations. Stereotyping can shape a persons mind to a point where they have a fixate on an image of characteristics over certain groups of people or objects. Each and every person will experience this challenge, sometimes it's hardly noticeable, but at times its so noticeable it becomes extremely annoying. Based on our actions to them more stereotypes can be form and it'll be much harder to resist them.

Audience- Hurston’s intended audience was a wide range of readers: “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” was aimed at both the white and black community.

| Friendships more settled.Groups of friends.Problem solving and undertaking activities with increased independence.Require praise from parents and acceptance from peers.Awareness of self and how they are perceived.

Zora Neale Hurston’s text “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” examined notions of self-image, perception, identity, and pride within the black community during the Harlem Renaissance. Throughout her text, she maintains optimistic although many of the people within her community perceive themselves negatively and struggle with their self-image. Throughout the novel her optimism stems from her ability to associate positive notions with her color. This greatly impacted me because one can easily utilize Zora’s ideologies and correlate them to other situations in present times. There are many instances of people in today’s society who struggle with self-image and identity and in her text Zora isolates and exposes the first step to solving this dilemma

Society can treat individual different from the majority. When one individual is different from the others race or physical appearance. It is hard for that individual to fit in as a normal person. Racism can happen to anybody who has a different race from others. Physical appearance plays a big part on how people treat each other’s in society. In fact, both of the authors, Zora Neale Hurston and Nancy Mairs of “How It Feels to be Colored Be Me” and “One Being a Cripple,” respectively undergo discrimination, self-discovery, and respond differently to these issues.

Veering into what my comfort zone consists of; I don't like to speak much but listen attentively during class, not counting the multiple questions I have in math lectures because I'm excited to learn more. (I'm a "math person".) I'm socially awkward and can't easily make friends, acquaintances I can make, but not "friends".

It is nice to get a chance to meet new people and make new friends! According to my friends and family, I am a very intelligent and creative person. I am thoughtful and always ready to lend a helping hand. My friends would describe as nerdy because I love books, animes, and mangas. I am very different from my siblings and friends. Most of my friends have very different cultures than me.

Agreeableness is average, meaning I do not try to be either cooperative or antagonistic towards others. I generally take a laissez-faire approach to my relationships and do not have an invested interest because I do not believe I can significantly impact the long-term well being of others. During conversations, I do not inquire specifically about their personal lives, I let the other person tell me what they are comfortable about talking about and what they want me to know. Conscientiousness is also average. I have a fair balance of structure and spontaneity. There is just enough control and regulation in impulses to maintain a harmonized flow of daily life that will allow for spontaneous activities. For example, school work is more or less planned out by the day to prevent falling behind, but I will still embark on spontaneous adventures of bicycle rides to abandoned warehouse roof tops at midnight on a school night. Survey results are consistent with how I view myself generally. While it is impossible to be completely objective in self evaluations, I think I am fairly in tune with my inter- and intra-relationships because I make an effort to heed feedback. When interacting with others I pay attention to their facial expressions, body language, tone of voice, and not only their words, but their silences.

Pat Thieman is a trainer of “what color is your personality” which was developed by Dr. Carol Ritberger. Pat’s presentation on what color represents your personality to be very interesting. Unfortunately I was unable to ask her a question but I feel that everything she touched on was very informative and spot on when it comes to the color of my personality.

According to my IPIP-NEO narrative report I am a very independent, outgoing, calm, and curious person. My comprehensive report shows that I am: high scoring in openness, conscientiousness, and extraversion, average scoring in agreeableness and low scoring in Neuroticism. Raking in the 82nd percentile, extraversion was my second highest scoring trait. This means I am pretty outgoing, extraverted and love people. This is evident my scores of 89 in friendliness, 84 in assertiveness and 75 in activity level. Despite my high score in extraversion, I am on the lower side of average in the excitement-seeking facet with a score or 33. This means that even though I might like a little hustle and bustle and take charge I wont take to many risks and don’t always need a thrill to be satisfied.

A person has to be able to enjoy the things they do socially and physically, to be able to develop and sustain good relationships, whether personal or social, which makes them feel part of something and connected to others such as friends, family,

Sociable - I am a very sociable person, and like to be around friends alot of the time. I am easy to get along with, and believe that people enjoy my company. I like to go out and socialise and play football on weekends with friends.