Blog 13

A 20-year-old African/Japanese American explains how his “special” hair is a metaphor for struggling with his identity as a mixed-race person in America.  The author refers to America’s attitudes about race as its “whack color game.”  What do you think he means by that?  How does America focus on race?  How can this affect how individuals identify themselves?  Explain.  Use examples from the essay and real life.




I think that what he means by "whack color game" is that people see how other will react in things if they looked a little different from their own race to see if any one notices or does something or even say something. It can affect how people look at you when you try to be different from your same race, you might like so,etching that other race have or do and you might want to do the same. We all have likes that our own race might not like and some people are willing to try that. But there are some people that don't like that their own race do thing alike other race. They choose to do things different because you can give a message they choose to do things different because they like what it mean or stands for. So it just depend on what you like and I think that's ok because you might like how things are done different ways.