Race When I was young, my parents decided that we would host exchange students on Rotary exchanges and thus I had interaction with different races from an early age. We hosted many students from all over the world for various lengths of time. These experiences will stay with me for years to come. At the end of last year I had the opportunity to travel overseas on an exchange. I went to Italy, Switzerland and …
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…to become engineers, they need to learn maths such as trigonometry". Another teacher walked passed and overheard this conversation. He stated, "What would someone like you need trigonometry for? You are just a welder". This comment is very much untrue. My father uses maths especially trigonometry every day for such jobs as stairs, roof supports, etc. Just because my father is a labourer, this teacher thought his was stupid and not as 'cultured' as himself.