Asian-Americans In Marilyn Chin's How I Got That Name

Marilyn Chin’s “How I Got That Name” is a poem that serves as a criticism on how Asian-Americans in their efforts to fit into western society have lost part of their cultural identity. Lines 36 through 57 compose the second stanza of this poem. The second stanza of this poem has an overriding tone of outrage. Chin begins the second stanza with the use of an ironical device “Oh, how trustworthy our daughters, / how thrifty our sons!” (lines 36-37). Chin then proceeds by telling us how Asian-Americans have fooled the experts that analyze minorities (keyword fooled). With the use of this ironical device as an illustration of her outrage towards the illusion of fitting in they have create. Immediately she continues to support her argument by stating