Blog 12

Mona has a hard time finding her place in school. She finds her way once she meets a boy named Sherman who is also Asian. They begin to like each other, and through him she finds her place in school. She was Chinese and he was Japanese. Her experience is that she learns that if she falls in love with someone who is going to move away, she will always be looking forward to heartbreak.

Blog 11

Kaitlin holds a grudge against her father. After being single for years, he decides to marry a Chinese woman without any input from her. He has always been upset about some trivial things. He is always cheap and dressed in worn out clothes. She has a mixture of happy and sometimes melancholy tone when she talks about her family. This can happen when families have much different personalities. If people found common ground, they can get a sense of relation and get along better.

Struggle to be an All American Girl

Children of any culture can find it difficult to relate to their parents on what may be the best for them. Parents historically seem pushy and are almost like aliens to children. They have such vast differences in their likings and personalities.

Children may also feel a disconnect to their parents' background and cultural differences, especially on a melting pot area. Their friends don't seem culturally similar to their parents.

Children can learn from their parents' experiences better by being more open minded. Their parents could also be more understanding of their youth and try to make their stories more interesting.

Without commercials inspired poem

You are you
You are a person
With thoughts and mind

You are not
A color of skin
Nor a gender

You are not
To be generalized
By anyone

You are you
With your uniqueness
You flourish

Like every other
Human being
You are one

Let America be America Again by Langston Hughes

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15609

Baddest Dog in Harlem Overview

Living in a environment surrounded with violence, crime, and poverty, can have a significant psychological effect. You will adapt to it. They will be nothing short of casual events to you. You will be desensitized. To help end the cycle of violence, people must consider education and law enforcement. Poverty must not be a problem, as that is a leading cause of violence and crime.

Black Men and Public Space

The issues in the story Black Men and Public Space, and in society in general, is racism and xenophobia. They are expressed not explicitly, but with subtlety. People subconsciously adapt to this racism. I have experiences some racism on my life. As a white person, I can be automatically assumed to be racist. I am assumed to have more money than people of color. I am viewed on occasion as physically weak for being white.