Yang Stereotypes

In this comic book about Yang’s new life in America, it is how two different worlds are facing each other. In this case how Yang’s Chinese background is facing with White Americans at his new school. In the modern world many Whites have different views on Chinese people and have different understanding of their cultures and traditions. For Yang it is difficult for him to decide if he is an American citizens, a Chinese immigrant, Chinese-American citizen or Asian American citizen. In reality many Chinese-American citizens are deciding if they are part of mainstream society or part of the Chinese culture because China is rising up as a superpower and surpassing America. In the comic when Yang’s story of the mystical Monkey King and
For example when Timmy states that the Chinese eat dog meat. This is one of the most well-known stereotypes of the Chinese. In today’s world many Americans would not eat insects, rats, and other foods that the Chinese would eat. This shows lack of understanding between two cultures. Another stereotype I saw was when Yang was sitting on the lunch table talking to his friend and the rest of the class was playing football. This is similar to “The Tiger Mother” where the Chinese children are not allow to play with other children. In reality there some things that Chinese children would not do. Play in certain sports or date someone. Their parents would still follow Confucianism and not American way of
He tries to find out if he is a Chinese-American, Chinese, American, or an Asian-American person. In reality majority of the Chinese and Chinese-American would say they are Asian-Americans. At the end I believe he choose to be Asian-American. I think that he made a good decision, because Asian-American has both Chinese and American identity. Yang wears a mask as he wants his classmates to see him as a Chinese or Chinese-American person but really want to be close as possible to be an American. Towards the end of the comics Yang is shifting from being Chinese or Chinese-American to become Asian-American. The author is making a big point to his readers about the identity of the