Racismo?

So when we were in Ica on friday we went to one of the many vinyards that there are around and in the city. We did some wine and Pisco tasting. We went on a tour of the vinyard. We learned the difference between Pisco and Wine, 2 grape made drinks. (pisco is fermented distilled and wine is only fermented). And then we went to the resturant there is there. And we ordered food, and sat for 1.25 hours waiting for it. We watched a table of 35 get there food, we saw everyone who sat down after us get there food, we watched as new people sat down WAYYYYY after us and order there food. Then we asked were ours was, and they hadn't stated making it yet. after someone else in our group came up and compailed we got ONE dish to apease us. Then we payed for that one dish and left. Just left, after 1.5 hours. Then someone pointed out, we were the only white people in the place. Everyone else was a peruvian tourist, and they all got their food before we did. Is this why we didn't get it? They were waiting to serve everyone else until they served the gringos? I don't understand. I still don't understand how people can do a think like that "Oh they are white, they won't mind being served late."

It was here in Peru that i wished i could change the color of my eyes and hair. People just look at my face and see a blond blue gringo. The men need to stare and talk to me, where ever i go, and no matter how conservative my clothes are. I have been the minority here, and at some times its awful. The only time I have enjoyed having blue eyes here is when a little autistic boy at my internship held my face as he stared at my eye for a good 25 minutes. It was the first human being with blue eyes he had ever seen, and he was amazed.

And the sad thing is, i know that other people have felt how i feel x5,000,000. Look at our history of the world. There are so many examples of racism its ridiculous.