encouraging. Second, you must begin to challenge the assumptions you make about how others are viewing you. The reality is that most people will form their opinion of you based on the context in which they get to know you.

So, if this is at college, you are viewed as

Part One of this article discussed some of the potential difficulties that can arise in individual being raised in settings that for them are a source of embarrassment.

Fortunately, there are solutions to this problem. On the individual level, first one must really assess how you view yourself and how you talk to yourself in your mind about who you are. It may become clear that your assessment of yourself is negative and tainted by the very stereotypes and discriminations that you would never tolerate from others but say to yourself with some regularity. These self assessments and self statement are false and only go to support your sense of not fitting in or not belonging to a community.

Paying attention to your self talk and even writing down the negative statements will help you begin to attack the falsehoods that you have adopted. You need to begin to replace those negative self statements with accurate self statements that are encouraging. They do not always have to be positive, not everything about us as individuals is positive, but it must be true and accurate as well as encouraging. Second, you must begin to challenge the assumptions you make about how others are viewing you. The reality is that most people will form their opinion of you based on the context in which they get to know you.

So, if this is at college, you are viewed as a

ss how you view yourself and how you talk to yourself in your mind about who you are. It may become clear that your assessment of yourself is negative and tainted by the very stereotypes and discriminations that you would never tolerate from others but say to yourself with some regularity. These self assessments and self statement are false and only go to support your sense of not fitting in or not belonging to a community.

Paying attention to your self talk and even writing down the negative statements will help you begin to attack the falsehoods that you have adopted. You need to begin to replace those negative self statements with accurate self statements that are encouraging. They do not always have to be positive, not everything about us as individuals is positive, but it must be true and accurate as well as encouraging. Second, you must begin to challenge the assumptions you make about how others are viewing you. The reality is that most people will form their opinion of you based on the context in which they get to know you.

So, if this is at college, you are viewed as

e regularity. These self assessments and self statement are false and only go to support your sense of not fitting in or not belonging to a community.

Paying attention to your self talk and even writing down the negative statements will help you begin to attack the falsehoods that you have adopted. You need to begin to replace those negative self statements with accurate self statements that are encouraging. They do not always have to be positive, not everything about us as individuals is positive, but it must be true and accurate as well as encouraging. Second, you must begin to challenge the assumptions you make about how others are viewing you. The reality is that most people will form their opinion of you based on the context in which they get to know you.

So, if this is at college, you are viewed as

hoods that you have adopted. You need to begin to replace those negative self statements with accurate self statements that are encouraging. They do not always have to be positive, not everything about us as individuals is positive, but it must be true and accurate as well as encouraging. Second, you must begin to challenge the assumptions you make about how others are viewing you. The reality is that most people will form their opinion of you based on the context in which they get to know you.

So, if this is at college, you are viewed as

encouraging. Second, you must begin to challenge the assumptions you make about how others are viewing you. The reality is that most people will form their opinion of you based on the context in which they get to know you.

So, if this is at college, you are viewed as a student along with thousands of others in the same situation as they are in. If this is at work, you are viewed a coworker working in the same place and doing the same type of work. Does this mean that there are no people who will be prejudice in their assessment of you based on any knowledge they may have of where you came from? Of course not, there is going to be prejudice individuals wherever you go, no matter what you do. But this does not dictate how most people will respond to you on an individual basis, and may even help to challenge some of their own preconceived notions. You certainly cannot allow this type of individual to tell you who you are or what others think of you. This assumption that others view you negatively must be challenged.

On a community level, there needs to be the recognition that people are individuals, not stereotypes and not products of a mold without variance from individual to individual. Does where we come from shape how we view the world and interact with it? Without question, but it does not make every person from that community the same, with