What Are The Stereotypes In Inside Out And Back Again

Refugees are people who flee their country due to problems with the government or war. Refugees' lives turn inside out when they move to a different country or state and have to deal with racism, language barriers and fleeing. In the novel Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai, Ha and her family live in Saigon where there is war. Ha was a curious and adventurous girl that loved her family. Ha and her family's life turned "Inside Out" when they had to flee Saigon and move to America to start a completely different life, living with their sponsor and having to find jobs and go to school. Racism has been a big struggle with refugee’s all around the world. There have been stereotypes made and in the end it makes refugee’s lives much harder because

After the attacks, some Americans began to think that all Muslims are terrorists” (Faiad 16). There have been many stereotypes and racist comments throughout the years that refugees have to deal with. According to,“Inside Out & Back Again” the refugee Ha states “He pokes my cheek. Howls from everyone. He pokes my chest. I see nothing but squeezed eyes, twisted mouths” (Lai 146) “I now understand when they make fun of my name, yelling ha-ha-ha down the hall when they ask if I eat dog meat, barking and chewing and falling down laughing when they wonder if I lived in the jungle with tigers, growling and stalking on all fours” (Lai 168) Since the stereotypes and misjudgement started there has been lower levels of treatment satisfaction and racist experiences that make people afraid of attending conventional healthcare services. In the article “Your Stories of Racism” it states “One day driving home with my sister-in-laws, we saw a black woman being pulled over. Immediately the race jokes began. My husband looked his sister in the eye and asked, Are you a racist? Why would you say that? She responded that she was and hated all people of color. It was her right to be

This set up a big language barrier and connection between her and her classmates. “ MiSSS SScott shows the class photographs of a burned, naked girl running, crying down a road of people climbing, screaming desperate to get on the last helicopter out of Saigon o skeletal refugees, crammed aboard a sinking fishing bot, reaching up to the heavens for help of mounds of combat boot abandoned by soldiers of the losing side” (Lai 194) Ha is constantly learning how to speak english to try and communicate with other people and try to feel like she fits in. Ha states,” sometimes the spelling changes when adding an s. Knife becomes knives. Sometimes a c is used instead of a k, even if it makes more sense for cat to be spelled kat “ (Lai 177) As Ha’s peers and teacher except her into the classroom, she instantly feels left out and disregarded for not being able to fit in. '' MiSSS SScott points to me, then to the letter of the English alphabet. I say A B C and so on. She tells the class to clap. I frown, MiSSS SScott points to the numbers along the wall. I count up to twenty. The class claps on its own. I’m furious, unable to explain I already learned fractions and how to purify river water. So this is what dumb feels like. I hate, hate, hate it” (Lai