Why do you need to include unrelated information about your personal life on your resume?

I’m in a business class which has been a waste of time for me, thanks a lot university system. You did it again.<br><br>Despite the lack of useful academic information in my business class, I like the professor. I’ve always tried to be a moral and fair person, and the professor is a good person who wants to help. <br><br>The professor encouraged students to bring their resume so the professor could review them, but I didn’t feel like doing that. I did do the resume, I just didn’t like the idea of putting my resume, which I spend years writing, in the hands of someone I didn’t know. <br><br>But I appreciate a professor who cares about his students, so I wrote a resume for a fictional white person. Then I told the professor that I made up this white, male character to prove a point. I wrote a resume with the same qualifications as mine, and then gave his resume to the professor to review. <br><br>The professor said that he couldn’t tell a difference between the two. I said, “that’s the problem. I don’t want you to know, I just want you to see the fact that I’m qualified.” You can tell by the way I write that I’m not white, but when you see a resume you should only see qualifications, not personal stuff. The professor didn’t argue with me, I think he’s just like a sad older man who has to work in this horrible system.<br><br>The US brags so much about being a “meritocracy”, but when we’re in a job interview, people are asking us questions that have nothing to do with our job qualifications. If I look hispanic, you’ll ask me about speaking spanish. If I’m a young woman, you’ll ask me about my plans on having kids. If I’m an older man, you’ll ask me when I’m planning on retiring. If I’m black, you’ll ask me about if I’ll be comfortable working in a non-diverse workplace. <br><br>Why do they care about this stuff? I’m not gonna lie, I didn’t grow up speaking spanish just because I’m hispanic. And I don’t plan a family until I’m in my 30s, I got too much stuff to do first. I just want to work hard. I want to show I can do my job. I don’t want to talk about my personal life when I’m at work. I don’t want to get judged for my personal life. I just want to be seen as a qualified person. <br><br>By the way, hispanic is a bad word. Hispanic isn’t even a race, hispanic is white, but if you say hispanic you’re referring to a latino person. Hispanic is so white that in the US census, hispanic is white. When you say hispanic, you’re saying a latino person who is mostly white or a latino person who is mixed with white. It’s like calling a black person light skinned or calling an asian person “fobby”, it’s derogatory. I like calling myself latino, I like saying I’m from Latin America. Hispanic is white, I don’t want to be called hispanic. Hispanic is not my word, it’s a word the white people use to describe me. I don’t like it. I’m latino. <br><br>The first few years of my life I didn’t speak spanish. When I turned seven, my parents took me to live in Mexico to learn spanish. I learned spanish, and I didn’t forget it. But in the US, as a latino, everyone will ask you to speak in spanish to them. They think it’s cute, they think it’s fun. I don’t wanna be cute, I don’t wanna be fun, I’m a man, I work hard. <br><br>I’m 24, my girlfriend is 22, I don’t want to have kids for years. I don’t wanna be a dad yet, I don’t wanna be a husband yet. I wanna travel the world with my girlfriend, I wanna live in Europe, I wanna go to Asia. I’m not gonna do any of that if I’m stuck being a dad, or if I’m stuck being married. <br><br>Despite the fact that I don’t wanna be a dad or husband, everyone keeps asking me about my plans for kids and marriage, like it’s a requirement. Everyone wants to know something about my plans for my family, but they don’t care about my plans for my career. They don’t care about my job qualifications, they care about my personal life. <br><br>And if I’m latino, they’ll want to know if I’m legal. But if I’m white, they won’t care, they’ll just ask me about my “migrant” experience. And if I’m black, they’ll ask me about my “struggle”. I don’t wanna talk about my struggles, I don’t wanna talk about my family, I don’t wanna talk about my race. I just wanna prove that I’m qualified for the job. I just wanna be seen as a person, not a latino, not a minority, just a person.