Frederick Douglass final

Frederick Douglass, upon becoming a free, married man, decided to heed warnings about America from his peers and left to Ireland. While there, he noticed that he was never judged as a person, he felt like an individual, like a human. This is no different from how it is now in Europe. With the exception of some extreme racists, personal character and appearance are not as analyzed or characterized as they are in the states. At least with my experience, Europe has allowed people to be themselves and the people there don’t seem to look through a social lens. Here, assumptions and preemptive personality checks are rather common. One thing always seems to lead to another, for example something that has annoyed me a lot would be this chain of assumptions: long hair means he’s effeminate which means he is submissive and therefore he likes other men. Despite the fact all of this chain is untrue bar the physical trait exhibited, this train of thought through various untruths and miniscule amounts of correlation is unfortunately more common than expected. My experience in Europe has been quite the opposite, allowing me to not be judged and to be simply a unique individual.