Analysis Of What Goes Through Your Mind: How Society Influence Our Identity

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As soon as we arrived in Ecuador, our family members were waiting for us at the airport. They welcomed us and it felt like meeting them for the first time. I needed to adjust to the changes: the hot climate, snow-less winters, and adapting to having ‘toldos’ covering our beds to avoid mosquito bites. Moving forward, I reconnected with my family and had to improve my Spanish. Meanwhile from middle school to high school, I had an eye opening experience because of society. In Chung’s writing “What Goes Through Your Mind: On Nice Parties and Casual Racism,” she goes heavily on society influencing our identity. When she says “I am still the only one who feels anything about it all,” she talks about how she is feeling about her reaction to a racist

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