Tuesday, May 7, 2013

How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl or Halfie) - Junot Diaz

This story is a how to, basically for young guys to "get the most" out of their dates. It generalizes that women of different ethnicities and social status will do different things for boys. White girls are the easiest and brown girls from your own neighborhood won't be so quick to let these boys in. This story tells young guys how to prepare for a girl that is coming over. First you want the house to yourself, no interruptions. Then you make sure anything that would make you look poor needs to be put away where it will not be seen. And you also want to put away anything that could potentially be embarrassing. Once  you have covered these areas you are well on your way to getting into the pants of whatever girl you can get to come over.

I thought this story was kind of funny. I love how this young guy has all these ideas about what you have to do and how he is able to categorize the girls into races. Reading this story I think it is brought to our attention how we can all categorize people into races sometimes, however unintentional it may be. I feel that that could possible be a reason for the story, to show us how silly it is. Everyone is an individual and will react differently to different situations.

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