Summary: The story was about Jin Wang, who was a American born Chinese growing in the Chinatown of San Francisco. During his childhood at Mayflower Elementary School, he encountered lots of identity problems. For example, classmates made fun of him because they assumed all Chinese ate dogs. He did not know how to respond to this racial stereotype. However, his teacher did nothing to help him out of this struggling myth. She said maybe Jin’s family had stopped eating dogs before going to the US. This did not prevent the spread of the rumor, but fueled the malicious myth. He was constantly embarrassed by different offensive name-callings, and he could barely make a friend. As a result, he could not develop a sense of belonging to the school.
