Summary Of Leaves From The Mental Portfolio Of Eurasian By Sui Sin Far

The text, “Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian” written by Sui sin Far, is a story about a Chinese European, Eurasian, girl struggling in North America. The girl, Sui Sin Far, lives in North American countries, Canada & the United States of America, with her family-Chinese mother, English father, and her brother and sisters. Sin Sui Far struggled with racial discrimination in the countries of Canada and North America because of her Chinese Eurasian ethnicity. Far first noticed the racial discrimination has a young four year-old child when nurses were examining her about being Chinese. Although the first encounter of racial discrimination against Far did not hold to her mother, Far knew she was different. Her next encounters with racial discrimination as a child were well understandable and undeniably harsh. From playing with a young girl who told her, ‘I don’t care--- Even if your mamma is Chinese, I like you better than I like Annie.’ To being examined at a children’s party as if she was some type of scientific experiment placed on an animal or having other little kids yell racial slurs at her and her brother. Sui Sin Far’s childhood was no walk in the park due to her Chinese Eurasian

Her bosses assigned her to many jobs dealing with the Chinese people of America. Sui Sin Far’s European genes were stronger than her Chinese genes, so she would have to prove to Chinese people that she was indeed Chinese Eurasian. As Far continued to grow in age she traveled around America from the East coast to West coast pursuing journalism jobs for local papers. Because of her strong European genes, her bosses would think of her as white mixed with some type of Hispanic descent. And if she was to tell someone that she was Eurasian, they would assume she was Japanese Eurasian because Japanese Eurasians were accepted more than Chinese Eurasians. Far allowed people to assume rather than telling them of her true