The Face of Racism what does that really mean? Well Romero learned two different ways to portray that definition of Racism. One definition is the obvious racism of the Klan Member and the other is the covert and subtle racism that the victim of overt racism begins to internalize. In which it has a strong definition I don't really understand in a way. He uses his father as his learning about racism. His father thought of himself as White because he is an American, since his family is a descendant from Spaniards. His father was taught to hate anyone who was not White he also learned to hate "Niggers." Since his father was like that his learning of his culture was limited from him, but his mother took the courage to teach and reconnect him to his Latino heritage.
His father tried to fit in with the American culture but he wasn't so successful, his appearance gave it away as being different from an American. His father would behave violently towards it. He put a great example when Romero became more successful than his father. Speaking English with no accent, going to college, and dating a Caucasian girl, his father became abusive to him. After his years of learning and having experiences about why someone can be racist he wonders himself and looks in the mirror thinking about the resembles he has of his father and the words he chooses to yell at his children seemed a like. He will continue on to look in the mirror and find the face of racism.
Bayoumi's reading again, talks about racism of Muslim because of the 9/11 attack many of them were being targeted as a problem because of the person who had been the main holder of 9/11. Around September 14 - 15 Arabs were told be secret checked before boarding airplanes and it damages their American part of them. There are Muslim Americans here and he compares it with the Japanese Americans during World War 3. Even thought the Japanese Americans had came and lived in the United States before the Pearl Harbor attack, they were all sent to concentration camp even if they were American born with out evidence if they all have anything to do with it. I mean the United States the race White is the main face of this country and if something goes wrong they are never accused first but the other minority group are likely to be first.
I can really connect towards his denial of being Latino because I, myself denied my own culture at a very young age and didn't stop thinking about it until my last year of high school. A lot of other minority groups viewed my couture as "bad" so it also made me look bad too since I was Hmong. Hmong kids are so bad that they get punished and they are a apart of gang related so be ware of them. Rumors of this and that I get sick and tired of it. I can recall another Asian Ethnicity hated on me because I was Hmong and said Hmong people are affiliated with gangs which made me not want to be Hmong. I felt as if everyone turned their backs at me even though they don't even know who I am and the real stories behind it. I think a lot of young teenagers had thought about that before.
When Romero mentioned about his father not letting him speak Spanish to his father, I thought of it as such nonsense. His father is picking up the wrong way of thinking of being White. His father isn't white, he is an American and is Latino. It was also not that great of attitude to not let his wife learn English, when the major language around the world used is English.
His father tried to fit in with the American culture but he wasn't so successful, his appearance gave it away as being different from an American. His father would behave violently towards it. He put a great example when Romero became more successful than his father. Speaking English with no accent, going to college, and dating a Caucasian girl, his father became abusive to him. After his years of learning and having experiences about why someone can be racist he wonders himself and looks in the mirror thinking about the resembles he has of his father and the words he chooses to yell at his children seemed a like. He will continue on to look in the mirror and find the face of racism.
Bayoumi's reading again, talks about racism of Muslim because of the 9/11 attack many of them were being targeted as a problem because of the person who had been the main holder of 9/11. Around September 14 - 15 Arabs were told be secret checked before boarding airplanes and it damages their American part of them. There are Muslim Americans here and he compares it with the Japanese Americans during World War 3. Even thought the Japanese Americans had came and lived in the United States before the Pearl Harbor attack, they were all sent to concentration camp even if they were American born with out evidence if they all have anything to do with it. I mean the United States the race White is the main face of this country and if something goes wrong they are never accused first but the other minority group are likely to be first.
I can really connect towards his denial of being Latino because I, myself denied my own culture at a very young age and didn't stop thinking about it until my last year of high school. A lot of other minority groups viewed my couture as "bad" so it also made me look bad too since I was Hmong. Hmong kids are so bad that they get punished and they are a apart of gang related so be ware of them. Rumors of this and that I get sick and tired of it. I can recall another Asian Ethnicity hated on me because I was Hmong and said Hmong people are affiliated with gangs which made me not want to be Hmong. I felt as if everyone turned their backs at me even though they don't even know who I am and the real stories behind it. I think a lot of young teenagers had thought about that before.
When Romero mentioned about his father not letting him speak Spanish to his father, I thought of it as such nonsense. His father is picking up the wrong way of thinking of being White. His father isn't white, he is an American and is Latino. It was also not that great of attitude to not let his wife learn English, when the major language around the world used is English.