Junot Diaz How To Date A Whitegirl Analysis

Now a days people’s life is affected by society. In one-way or another, society and stereotyping others play an important role in a person’s behavior. Society is everything that surrounds people, where people learn the appropriate attitudes and values of life. There are many issues people face today due to society, making people unhappy. Issues like gender roles in society having to do with stereotypes between many others. For example, in society women are characterized as weak and that has prevailed during time. Gender stereotypes set impossible standards for men and women that lead to unhappiness, loneliness and possibly violence towards them. In “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl or Halfie” by Junot Diaz and the “Story of

“How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl or Halfie” by Junot Diaz is an example of a story where the author believes that girl’s stereotypes and societal expectations affect the way a man see woman. Women sometimes feel depressed or without self-steam because now a day the majority of men when dating a woman take into account stereotypes in order to have an idea how women would behave. For example, Diaz in his story says “ A local girl may have hips and thick ass but she won’t be quick about letting you touch” and “A white girl might just give it up right then” (Diaz 121) being a way to support the fact that men first think in stereotypes before really knowing the woman. Maybe the woman that has hips and thick ass is the white girl instead of the local girl. Each woman’s actions and reactions are different and those actions have nothing to do with stereotypes. When a man is dating a woman several things should be taken into account and stereotypes should not be one of those things. The purpose of a date is to achieve physical and emotional intimacy and that feeling does not have anything to do with stereotype or with what society would think. The most important thing is to love each other and to try to reach