Junot Diaz's How To Date A Browngirl, White Girl

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“How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie”

"How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie" is a short story written by Dominican Junot Diaz and narrated in a second person point of view. The narrator is a low class teenage Dominican boy who creates an imaginary manual including certain guidelines, with the purpose to advise as to how to act towards girls according to their ethnicity and social class when dating. Depending on the stereotype presented to the main character, followed where the dates took place, from Wendys’ around the corner to a fancy restaurant called El Cibao in Suburban New Jersey were the proper options. Stereotypes form the theme in the story. A stereotype is an idea many people have about a thing or a group which is often untrue (“Stereotype”). The plot presents scenarios …show more content…

The choice of an adolescent makes the severity of his stereotypes more acceptable. The main character is used to express controversial stereotypical occurrences and also to demonstrate how women are treated differently based on their race even when dating as teens. Yunior portrays a controversial subject that relates to a broad range of people, showing the reader that people generalize because stereotyping is a societal norm and often accepted as facts. Yunior is an arrogant but confident adolescent that lives in a poor urban neighborhood. Yunior creates a manual with steps on how to hit on girls depending on their race, ethnicity and class. “The girls local, don't sweat it. Shell flow over she's good and ready” (Diaz 120) He creates stereotypes for girls based on their immaturity, girls who live in Park or Society Hill in comparison to those that are from Terrace. Throughout the short story he implies that he gets ‘the ladies’ in a matter-of-fact tone which makes the fictional manual as

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