stereotype
The Leavers, Daniel/Deming faces a lot of racist stereotypes, from eating dog to being good at math (look on note page to see more). Deming makes a point to acknowledge these stereotypes and ignore them in an effort to fit in with the other kids at school. Instead of ignoring these stereotypes, I thought I would research more about them and see where they come from. Stereotypes are not generally sprung out of nowhere; they usually come from a large general assumption about a certain group of people. The first stereotype that Daniel faced was eating dog meat. Daniel felt insulted when people joked about the “unrecognizable lumps” in Chinese takeout as dog meat, but the truth is, in many Asian countries, it may be true. Eating dogs in the winter was believed to provide warmth in the winter, according to traditional Chinese medicine. Eating dogs occurred during the Great Famine, but peasants would eat any animal they could just to stay alive. In the early days of China, dogs were impo...