I had no clue about the various racial and cultural stereotypes ascribed to the members of each group, no understanding of the nuances within different ethnicities and the historical context for the existence of each. Looking back on it, I was an interesting social science experiment—what happens if you take a twenty-one-year-old blank slate, to whom all concepts of race and racism are completely foreign, and drop her in New York City?
And she refuses to listen to anyone or take their histories seriously. No we have plenty of those already so, not really an experiment.
