In “American Born Chinese” Jin-Wang is an American born Chinese, in just the opening page he is stereotyped as coming all the way from China, he is from San Francisco. This is just one of the ways that Jin gets stereotyped.
One way is that in class a kid raised his hand, the teacher picks on him and he says, “My momma told me that Chinese people eat dogs”. This made Jin put his head in shame, at that moment he hated being a minority. In the next strip the teacher says “No Tommy i’m sure Jin doesn’t do that, actually i’m sure Jins family probably stopped that sort of thing when they moved to America. Jin is ashamed of his nationality.
The second thing is that, when it comes to lunch time, Jin eats dumplings, some kids had never seen that. One kid came up to him and said, “what are those”? Jin says,”Dumplings” and the kid says,”Oh ok don’t eat my dog”. Jin hates his life and can’t stand being a minority.
Overall there is so much stereotyping in the world and I think that this book shows it overall.
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