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Intolerance
Restoration
Intolerance vs. Prodigal
Similarities
Differences
Cultural Identities - Skillfully Blending the Ethnic Background with the American Dream
The distinctiveness of a group, culture or an individual is referred to as Cultural identity. In spite of inherent differences, there is plenty of overlap between identity politics and cultural identity. The new method tries to understand the identity of an individual with an anthology of identities based on gender, history, nationality, sex, religion, aesthetics and place. In a secular democracy like America, with diverse ethnic presence, the next generation in any major ethnic mix should be watched closely to understand the extent of their contribution towards the future policies of the country.
Intolerance
Jeremiah Torres and Carlos were two good friends with their friendship extending over 17 years. They were of Filipino American origin and happily went through elementary, middle and high school together in Palo Alto, located 35 miles south of San Francisco.
It was carols' seventeenth birthday, on October 23, 1988, and the two friends, along with 3 others, had planned a night out. Carlos and Jeremiah were just coming off the Safeway driveway in their car, when a speeding car almost jolted them with a loud honk. Overcome with anger and frustration, they caught up with the car, when the white young passenger rolled down his windows and irritatingly shouted, "He wasn't honking at you, you stupid fuck!" He followed up with expletives like, "Punk, lowlife, chink, and gangster" (Jeremiah, 1). They exchanged expletives when the white man sprayed Jeremiah's face with a spray of mace, and hit Carlos with the bottle, and sped away, leaving both of them with burning pain and anger. A kind woman helped them with water,...
Then one day, he was badly provoked by a white father who called him a 'punk'. Carlos chased the car and shattered his rear glass with a quarter. Carlos was identified as the perpetrator, was suspended from school, had to attend court, and was sentenced, as a felon, to a night in the juvenile detention and 200 hours of community work (Jeremiah). Wither justice?
Restoration
Seven-year-old Wendy, born in Santa Barbara, California, daughter of Taiwanese mandarin immigrant parents, declared that, inspired as she was with her new idol Ru-Ru, who spoke fluent English, she would sever all relationships with the Chinese mandarin language that she spoke quite fluently, to concentrate on speaking only in English, in her quest to blend with the modern American young people, at the cost of her original Chinese ethnicity. How was she to know then, what destiny held in store for her? At this moment, Chinese held no allure for her.
At Kellogg Elementary school in Santa Barbara, Wendy was riled to no extent that she was almost trapped in a kind of cultural loneliness with her only Chinese friend Xiao-Shen. They were always at the butt end of embarrassing comments from the other Ethnic American kids. By the time the family shifted to San Jose, Wendy was proficient in English and had American…
Reference
Arar, Han and John, Hsu. Asian-American X: an intersection of twenty-first-century Asian, Edited, University of Michigan Press, pgs. 1-8.
Fong, Justin. "The Invasian," Harvard Crimson, March 15, 2001, available at <http://www.thecrimson.com/fmarchives/fm_03_15_2001/article6U.html>.
Hu, Wendy "Shen ai shi ren" Asian-American X, Edited by Arar Han, John Hsu and Ann Arbor; University of Michigan Press, 2007, pgs. 160-166.
Jeremiah, Torres. "Label Us Angry" Asian-American X, Edited by Arar Han, John Hsu and Ann Arbor; University of Michigan Press, 2007, pgs. 15-18.
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