What are the effects of being vilified in a dominant culture?

The effects of being vilified in a dominant culture has its positives and negatives. The bad news is that it is painful for some people to be thought of as nothing in their community.Just because a person is a certain way people discriminate on that, and it isn't fair. It leaves the person feeling worthless. The positive sides of people being belittled in a community is that, it gives the people who are being discriminated against a cause to fight back, and that's where we get the effects of the civil rights movement, women being able to vote, having all the diverse ethnicity in one classroom.

One of the times I felt vilified was when I was about seven-years-old and I was taking ballet classes at out community center. My dance instructor was Anne Fisher, a fairly young, beautiful elegant American women. She was strict and stern with us as beginners in ballet so just simply being in her class was intimidating. It was getting closer to the middle of September and she announces that we are going to be part of the Berkley Ballet Nutcracker that she is directing during December, so of course these second graders as well as myself were excited we were going to be able to show off what we learned. So until December hit we had our usual class sessions in the community center learning choreography for our little part in the ballet, including driving to the Berkeley studio every Saturday to rehearse. The day finally comes that it's showtime. Our class was prepared and confident. While the show was going on all the dancers who were not on stage were placed in this huge room. We walk in take our spot of the room next to the second youngest dancers, we were the youngest, getting all our make-up done for our turn. When I notice that the girls sitting next to us who were probably around twelve-years-old made a comment about how colorful we are to her friend. Not by the make-up and costumes we wore but by our skin. I look around and that is when i notice that we were in a room fool of pale faces and here we are this group of assorted colors. She went on asking her friend why our group was there if we weren't from the area. Giggling to her friend about my friend, Jamey, and how they couldn't see her eyes commenting how could she dance if she couldn't see; then stretching out their faces attempting to imitate how she looked. I got discouraged and as a kid when someone says that stuff you ask yourself that same question and start believing them. It was a first for me to ever realize what it meant for someone to downgrade you like that. Even though they weren't making fun directly at me it still hurt that someone would "hate on you like that."