In a time when social negativism is constantly growing due to such phenomena as gender, racial and other types of discrimination sociologists determined that most cases promote not only interracial but in turn intraracial discrimination. This type of discrimination is vividly described in the examples of individuals living in a multinational society (Glenn 233). A man’s physical peculiarities as the color of skin and other parameters give birth to biases are a matter of identification. In fact, it is not rational due to the reasoning about the communication between individuals in the working and leisure domains of activities. Moreover, many people living in multinational soci8eties still suffer from the inability of others being of the same race to help or to cooperate due to some reasons of personal evaluation of people (Fuller 6). ‘FOBs’ vs. ‘Twinkies’: The New Discrimination is Intraracial by Grace Hsiang formulates rather an argumentative background to think of why such negative cases happen between individuals. When race represents no obstacle for communication, then such factors as age, appearance, acting under some circumstances becomes another reason for discrimination.
Hsiyang (2005) emphasized that “in the Asian community, the slurs heard most often are not terms such as “Chink” or “Jap,” but rather “FOB” (“Fresh Off the Boat”) or “white-washed” (too assimilated)” (Hsiyang para. 2). In this respect, I would like to comment on the personal example when my friend from Hong Kong was helpless to ask for help when admitting registration at the point of the airport in New York because of a lack of appropriate words. Next o him there was an Asian resident who fluently spoke English, but had no desire to help. It looked as if he wanted to see how somebody has particular problems due to some features. He smiled and seemed very proud of his position, as an advanced learner of English. That man did not say a word; he just expressed a scornful mockery on his face.
It is also admitted in the article that some Asian people “go out of their way to refuse to date within the community, embrace friends outside their ethnic circle, and even boast to others about how un-Asian they are” (Hsiyang para. 4). In fact, this process of allegedly trendy transformations in the way one behaves is apparent everywhere. My former friend was a shy and introverted person, but the friendship with bad guys of different ethnicities (Latin, African American, Whites) made him not the same. Once was I nearly o break my hand in the crowd coming from the football match, but He did not even do anything. He just laughed at me and said a typical American phrase for the implementation of his good spirits but in sarcastic coloring, namely: “Take it, easy girl!”
Another assertion precludes that “many of us very much want to belong to our parents’ community, but we cannot completely embody one culture when we are living in another” (Hsiyang para. 6). With regard to it, I remind when my cousin had great quarrels with their parents because of his denial of the family tea ceremony and celebration of Chinese national and religious holidays. Instead, he wanted to spend more time with white peers at the campus parties. Today he is a drug addict.
To sum up, the ethnical coloring of multinational society with all its negative features on discrimination is presupposed today with influences inside a definite ethnicity.
Works cited
Fuller, Robert Works. All rise: somebodies, nobodies, and the politics of dignity. San Francicso, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006.
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters. Stanford, CT: Stanford University Press, 2009.
Hsiang, Grace. ‘FOBs’ vs. ‘Twinkies’: The New Discrimination is Intraracial’. Pacific News Service: Youth Commentary. 2005. Web.