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Have you ever bases someone off their race or socio- economics status? In the book How To Date A Browngirl Blackgirl Whitegirl and Halfie Yunior represents teenage girls based on their race and socioeconomic status because he doesn’t feel comfortable with his own identity.
The way he is representing the girls is based off their race and socio-economic. him uses bias for each girl because of their race. For example him believes that white girls are most likely easier to have sex with “A white girl might just give it up”(Diaz) He believes that a white girl well be more likely to give him a hand job than a black girl or halfie. He takes them to different restaurants because of their race and he also has different conversation with them. He’s basically being phony because he’s sitting there and judging them because he might think that he’s just a regular poor girl or just a easy white girl and that why he chose them as his target. Yunior probably felt that there will always be those girls and I believe that’s why he decided to choses those girls to “date”. …show more content…

When him invites the girls to come over he hides the government cheese from them because he feels ashamed that he has help from the government. To him government cheese represents non-independence because he receives “assists”and he isn’t able to afford it. him doesn’t want a girl to think of him as someone who can’t afford things that he need or as a person to never depend on . He gives each girl an opinion with thought them knowing, for example he feels that each girl should have a different conversation or each girl should have a different meal or even a different complement. He’s blinded by his own dislike of himself, he finds a flaw in the girls just to make himself look and feel

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