Extra Credit

I really enjoyed going to the literature reading event, i had a lot of fun and i learned a lot about ways to write and draw in the attention of your readers with word usage etc. I really connected to one of the readings by a guy who had written something about the fluidity of gender. I can relate to this very much and it is something I've dealt with in my past when i went to a youth group. My group was a LGBTQ group for the youth. At the starting of these groups it was customary to state your name age,where you are from, and your "preferred gender pronoun"(male, female, they, etc) It was very common for men to prefer to be reffered to as her or she and the same was common for females to desire to be reffered to as he and him. This instilled the idea that gender was fluid in my mind at a young age and is something i will always remember. I enjoyed all of the readings and the variety that they had.

Chinese Girl In Ghetto

Ying Ma seems to be interested in issues about the economy, president Obama, and immigration most. From my perspective she posts mainly about things that are related to immigration and she thinks there shouldn't be illegal immigrants in the USA. I think her point of view on immigration and laws, especially things that obama backs, are a little ridiculous and i believe it goes against the "american dream" to deny rights to anyone who wants to create a life for them self in the USA. I personally believe her post about the big difference between legal immigrants and illegal immigrants is an invalid argument and that it makes her look biased and uneducated. As a legal immigrant i believe that anyone who is an illegal immigrant should be granted equal rights, to those i have, after coming to the USA.  Reading what she reposts and seeing her comments on posts just upsets me because for a seemingly "Educated" person her mindset is scary. Omi and Winant would say that her paradigm of the way she views the immigration of people to the USA and her view on the economy is based on a racial project where she seems to place her expectations and stereotypes onto people without taking into consideration the meaning of her words and thoughts and the effect they may have on society. I personally believe that she has done her best to assimilate into american culture and that she has forgotten her upbringing. The "core" of her upbringing.