Nobody likes to feel uncomfortable. Everyone has felt uncomfortable at some point, but some people feel uncomfortable all the time.(R-drawing relation to peoples and insighting a feeling) In this example, Nguyen, the authour of this article, talks about her struggle of having a Vietnamese name, Bich, in America in the 1980’s. Growing up in America in a predominately white Michigan neighborhood, Bich hated her name since it was so different from everyone else. (U-bich didnt fit in) Embareesed of her name, Bich hated to meet new people, get called on during, attendence, and she hated to write her name at the top of her homework. From the outside, many people dont understand why Bich was so embarrassed. Some say that they love the name or that they couldnt understand why she hated it. (C-what if they had this name in a predominatelt white neighborhood?) Nguyen says that “They did not say that they wished to have the name themselves.” All these people are so “supportive”, but truly don’t want to be in that uncomfortable, outside of the ordinary position that Bich is in. (Some things that others are insecure about, we may not always understand why) It is sad to se somebody not feel accepted for being their true self. Nguyen name was just that gateway into racial challenges. She already felt out of place and her name made her feel so mcuh more out of place. Feeling out of place is a position evyone hates. We may feel it sometimes, but just think if you had to feel it eveyday all the time. (R).
I agree with the point that her name was a gateway into racial challenges, it was a gateway into being put in a category. That she had no say over and never fully felt like she could get out of that category, even though she was raised her whole life in America. She never could fully escape the racism.