My Synonyms And Norms By Eunhye Chos Analysis

Self-Imposed Deception Starting as a kid, continuing throughout my entire childhood, and not stopping until my early adulthood, I have been blinded. My white, suburban, and middle class community shielded me from the adversities that towns next to me faced—let alone struggles that one continent over faced. With that said, this essay’s point is to not focus on my deception, but on the deception that every community and every group of people place onto themselves. This piece aims to explain the duplicities that ordinary people accrue and to explain why these duplicities exists. Finally, this piece will analyze the hypothesis which states: in order for our globalized world to be more open and more tolerant, we must truly understand not just our identity, but also those of other people. Any barrier to achieving this ought to be removed. The reasoning behind deception existing will be explored. In everyday life, the average and ordinary citizen deceives not out of malice, but instead to make their lives flow more easily. A researcher and professor at the

Taking acceptable lies outside the court room, one can see how deception affects and closes off entire groups of people. In Eunhye Cho’s essay, “My Synonyms and Antonyms,” she tells the hardships she faced growing up. Cho described growing up as an Asian-American she has to face my synonyms—or stereotypes—about being Asian. These stereotypes “tethered and suffocated [her] throughout [her] childhood” (Cho 13). Not only did her parents automatically place certain expectations onto her, her peers also assumed Cho to possess certain attributes because she was Asian; the treated her accordingly. This was to the extent that when she missed a hit in a tennis practice, her coach yelled, “Chinks can’t play” (13). The result of this was Cho finishing her next hit, storming out of practice, and gaining