Throughout the passage Dumas characterizes Americans as bland and prejudice, which may be slightly offensive to some of her American audience. Dumas characterizes American as people who’s “ancestors wore clogs.” This is a massive and untrue generalization about Americans’ ancestry which makes our past seem bland and plain, and could offend those Americans whose ancestors did not come from clog wearing cultures. The author believes had people known of her true ethnicity, she may have not been “invited to people’s houses.” This belief shoes that the author generalizes Americans as prejudice and unwilling to accept her. Dumas speaks of her difficulty finding a job with her non-American name, and then later applies with her American name. When