I spent four years of my high school in a public school and I hate the way people judge students coming from public schools in my hometown.
Once my classmate went to the mall wearing her school uniform. When she asked a sales lady about a price of a merchandise that she wants to buy, the sales lady answered “mahal na siya, ga” (it’s expensive, kid). The sales lady implied that she can’t buy that merchandise.
That sales lady used the wrong tone of voice and the wrong choice words just because she saw the costumer is just in her early teens and wearing a public school uniform. In this situation, I observed that a person sometimes justify how they talk and how they approach someone according to some created realities stored in that person’s mind. The sales lady probably thought ‘public school student = poor’ or probably ‘kid = don’t have enough money”. If someone with glamourous clothes and jewelry approached that same sales lady, she would probably act differently.
