Discrimination And Prejudice In Laong I Sing, By Bao Sing

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Discrimination and prejudice actions in American society is prominent with no hint of extinction. In the book “Sông I Sing” by Bao Phi, he depicts and highlights racism in his poems. The poet outlines stereotypes, prejudices, discrimination along with reference to white privilege. This two time Minnesota slam champion injects his passionate feelings of his views of other people into his poems. He advocates that racism shouldn’t exist in American society. Bao Phi is semi descriptive on the stories and brings his poems alive to visualize the content through words. This poet illustrates the effects of prejudice on people in American society who do not feel freedom based on skin color. All of his poems are deemed excellent not just because Phi …show more content…

Prejudice, stereotypes, discrimination and white privilege are all forms of racism in American society. Bao Phi illustrates by using an example of his feeling being a different skin color. A quote from in his book says “When the American tongue gets a taste for hot dish, I’m going to open up my own restaurant and charge people ten times what the food is worth.” Many people don’t find any discrimination in this quote because the price stays the same for everyone and is not dependent on the color of somebody’s skin. In order for this to be a racist or discrimination statement all companies would need to charge differently based on skin color. Throughout his stories, Bao Phi gives great examples of racism based on different skin colors and the corresponding treatment. “I’m going to build garbage dumps in white neighborhoods and make sure there’s lead in the water supply. I’ll tell the cops to shake down any white guy they see wondering around for suspicious behavior.” Anecdotally, this is another example of racism by skin color what with a twist on what is actually experienced in American society. A lot of Americans have heard stories of officers following people of certain skin colors other than white even though they are doing nothing wrong. This practice serves to further segregate people rather than promote

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