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Feeling like an outsider can affect the way someone view the world or how they think the world views them. In the essay “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie,” by Junot Diaz, this theme of alienation is apparent as he tells of a teenager who changed where he lived and how he acted in order to fit in. Throughout the essay, girls of different ethnicities are brought back to Yunior’s apartment and react to Yunior’s actions by responding how a typical girl of that ethnical race would respond according to Yunior’s speculation/experience. By changing the arrangement of his room, his actions, and by explaining his interpretation of different ethnical girl’s reactions, Diaz conveys his theme of “otherness.”

Authors in “We Don’t Sleep around Like White Girl’s Do” are looking at the relationship between Filipino immigrant parents and their daughters. It shows how gender socialization occurs. The author in this research uses epigraphs, or statements, by a Filipina immigrant mother and her second-generation Filipina daughter, stating things like “we don’t date like white girls date” and “I don’t like them to grow up that way, like the American girls.” These suggest that the Filipina daughter is taught to believe that White women are sexually unethical. It shows that their required “morality” and the sexuality of women, are crucial to the shaping of social differences. Furthermore, it claims that gender is a key to immigrant identity, and a way for immigrants to claim cultural authority over the dominant Americans.

Another marker of Yunior’s poverty stricken state is that he used to shoplift. Yunior was a just kid wanting to push the limits, to him, stealing was a common occurrence. Yunior mastered the fine art of looting stores. “Our system was simple – we walked into a store with a shopping bag and came out loaded … The only trick was the exit. We stooped right at the entrance of the store and checked out some worthless piece of junk to stop people from getting suspicious” (Díaz, 97). Growing up poor, Yunior cannot afford much and resorts to looting and also looks to it as a recreational activity. Luckily he was eventually caught a set straight. Yunior’s choice of activities, again, illustrate that he has no motivation to better himself or his environment. He simply lives day by day with no future or long-term goals.

I think Yunior is the opposite of his brother Rafa. Instead of hiding his emotions and keeping everything inside, he looks for attention by acting out. He’s always in trouble, getting a “whack on the nalgas”, or a “slap on my neck”. The year when Papi was supposed to return, he threw tantrums, got hit and was punished almost every day. He rebelled by tearing his clothes, just to hurt his mom. On the day when Mami leaves

Although Yunior commits very uneducated acts, he is very observant, showing that he’s very thoughtful when concerning other people other than himself. For example, in Drown when arriving at his house he notices his mom and says, “she’s talking to my father, something she knows I disapprove of. He’s in Florida now, a sad guy who calls her and begs for money. He swears that if she moves down there he’ll leave the woman he’s living with, These are lies, I’ve told her, but she still calls him”(101). In this quote, Yunior is very descriptive on what he notices his mother doing. He talks about how his mother always gets bought

Don't we all have something in common? Well that's just how comedians have an effect to communicate a universal truth with their audience. Whether if its confusion, sickness, frustration we all have something that we can relate to and that is how comedians use this effect because we can relate to that feeling or subject. That's how a comedian can communicate a universal truth to us by using humor.

By using the second person omniscient the narrator can give us what he really thinks about others based on his experience. He expresses his feelings and thoughts but he has no idea about others’ feelings. When the narrator says “Clear the government cheese from the refrigerator. If the girl is from the Terrace, stack the boxes in the crisper. If she is from the Park or Society Hill, then hide the cheese in the cabinet above the oven, where she will never see it. Leave a reminder under your pillow to get out the cheese before morning or your moms will kick your ass” However, in the story, the ‘government cheese’ represents his shame about his family’s socioeconomic status, which the reader is reminded about at the end of the story. The speaker advises the young man to hide the cheese because it will indicate to the girl he is trying to woo that he is poor. The speaker gives specific instructions on where to hide the cheese depending on the type of girl who is coming to visit while his mother and siblings are away. The girl from the “Terrace,” is an “around the way girl,” or from the same neighborhood as the young man, so hiding the cheese in the crisper section of the refrigerator will suffice. More effort must be made if she is a more upper-class girl from "the Park or Society Hill”

Thesis: According to the article, “Dating While Black” by Hadiya Roderique, published on Feb 15, 2017 on the Walrus, is her experience about dating as a black woman based on her opinion and her experiment in trying to understand other’s preferences when it comes to the black community using dating sites, such as OkCupid’s or Tinder. The overall article is about what the author experienced in not only trying to find a significant other and some experiments she has conducted, but also how others viewed black people, from what they told her after meeting her. Although the article is all based solely on her opinions and insight, it gives a general idea of why she felt it’s very difficult for black people to use online dating sites. I want to start is off in a similar order of how the author

Yunior from experience, knows that when he is struggling, Rafa looks the other direction. Rafa doesn’t have any empathy for his little brother and Yunior knows this. The way Yunior phrases this sentence implies that it’s Rafa’s personality that lacks care for Yunior. A different character in Yuniors life that also lacks a significant amount of empathy for his family is his father Papi. Papi leaves his family early on to make more money and hopefully to create a better life for them. Even though he has good intentions in the beginning, by the end he cheats on his wife, loses contact with his children, and craves money for himself: “He didn’t dream about his familia and he wouldn’t for many years. He dreamed about gold coins[…]”(169). Both men in Yuniors life have shown a lack of care for him and his family as a whole. Even though Rafa and Papi show this in different ways, the overarching theme that hurts Yunior ties into empathy. Empathy is a characteristic type that you either have or don’t have. Obviously Papi and Rafa lack this trait, but the way it affects Yunior proves that he contains the empathy trait within himself.

Throughout time, humorists have been able to pull off a phenomenon, which allows for others to laugh about sensitive, stressful topics. With talent, humorists are able to captivate positive emotion from their audience and allow for society to see delicate issues in an unbiased view. Although humorists are commonly seen as people who only intend to entertain, humorists purposefully say things through their work that allow for hard issues to be spoken or illustrated.

“How to Date a Brown girl, Black girl, White girl, and Halfie” by Junot Diaz the teenage boy continuously has repeated facades on interactions noted with females, including hiding one’s true social status, history, race and ethnicity. This makes the potential for either of the participants finding out the truth about the other impossible. Moreover, the writer promotes the manipulation of the given situation towards gaining his physical cut of intimacy regardless of his partners needs for emotional maturity and intimacy. Diaz also demonstrates how a person’s expectations of others are determined by their subjective generalizations in terms of race or social class. In addition, it highlights how individuals try to control other people’s perceptions.

Junot Diaz's "How to Date a Brown girl, Black Girl, White Girl of Halfie" is based on stereotypes, beliefs and predictions that a majority of young people have concerning women in America. Junot Diaz uses these stereotypes to draw conclusions about young women and advise the reader on taking advantage of the "precious" knowledge needed for achieving the ultimate goal of having sexual relations with girls. In this story, Diaz addresses the reader in a very casual manner, a "how-to" language, and utilizing specific situations and language to support the ideas presented in the narrative to make a bold, yet subtle statement about racism in America. First and foremost, Diaz begins by addressing the reader as "you," something Diaz does throughout

Dummies Guide on Unrealistic Expectations When the short story “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie ” is read briefly, at first it’s noticed that the tone is set in second person. This can be noticed as words like “you’ve” and “your” are used instead of “I” and “me”. Diaz uses these to address the main character as to accomplish the feeling as if the reader is taking part in learning from the main character. This makes it easier to follow as you can place yourself in the story to help yourself try to understand the motive of the main character. The story and it’s bizarre title has much more meaning and serves a purpose in relating to the main character.

Over the course of the years, society has taught black girls that the darker their skin tone is, the uglier they are which triggered them to do their best to meet Eurocentric beauty standards such as having light skin, slim nose and straight hair.

According to the Oxford dictionary “Humor,” is defined as: The quality of being amustic or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech, but what truly makes something funny? Comedy has been around for hundreds of years; as it is being examined four concrete theories have been developed to understand the idea of comedy: Superiority, Relief, incongruity, and Benign Violation theory.