American Born Chisnese By Gene Luen Yang

Today i have recently started reading the book American Born Chinese, i have read the book before but i though that i would read it again since it was so good. Because we have recently stop'ed learning about social Issues, i read the book this time with an eye for detail. I saw that not only was the author portraying the treatment of the different minorities, but also the stereotyping of the main character. In the book people automatically think he is from china, when there are many places in Asia that he could be from. To me this shows that the people around him ( in class and neighborhood) don't care about his personal life and who he is. All they Know is that he is Asian and that's as far as they want to know. Also in the book the American classmates don't care to hear about his culture, they just want him to be "normal" to be American. Like different foods or the way he speaks. Because no one excepted him for who he was he had to change, In order to assimilate into the school. Because of the reaction his peers made when he first came to school, he didn't want to be affiliated to anything that had to do with his culture. I think that to become someone you are losing yourself , your culture and our family. Why should he become the same person that teased him when he came to that school. I think that if I were in that position i would stick to what i know, stick to who I am, and not forget where I came from, because then I would never know where I am going hopefully the main in character learns that who he is good and no one could tell him other wise.