Sex: Let’s Get “Personal” “How To Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)” by Junot Diaz is a short story and faux instructional manual, narrated in second person by a Dominican American teenaged boy named Yunior, on how to behave while on a date with a girl based on the her ethnicity and where she’s from. Throughout the short story, it becomes apparent that Yunior’s guide attempts to aid the reader in having their date fulfil their sexual desires. This indicates that the narrator’s believes that sex does not need a personal connection because he instructs to alter one’s self and is attracted to a girl solely based on superficial factors rather than personality traits. Firstly, Yunior’s attitude toward sex, that it shouldn’t
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This idea is portrayed in the “dating manual” after his date arrives and he runs his hand through her hair, and, referring to himself in second person, remarks that, “[…] the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa… The white ones are the ones you want most… but usually the out-of-towners are black […],” (Diaz 2). In this example, one can see that the narrator believes it’s the easiest to have sexual encounters with black girls; this belief seems to have been made by a stereotype assuming that black people have a casual attitude toward sex but this is not true considering, in the end of the short story, Yunior fails to have any type of sexual interaction with any girl; this implies that his thoughts that certain ethnic groups have a certain attitude towards sex is incorrect because individuals vary from one another, hence everyone has a different attitude towards sex. The quote not only shows Yunior’s prejudice connection of race and sex, but that he’d rather have a certain girl over another another because of the superficial factor of race. This is a problem because Yunior is attracted to girls based, not on the girl’s personality, but the sex stereotypes of her ethnic group, illustrating that, for the narrator, sex doesn’t have a personal meaning. The narrator’s …show more content…
Though it may be acceptable to not need a personal connection to act on sexual desires, but it is problematic to lie to one’s partner and to be interested in someone based on outward factors; this imitation dating manual is a great example of why one should not behave those ways by displaying the harsh, but in this case fictional,
This idea is portrayed in the “dating manual” after his date arrives and he runs his hand through her hair, and, referring to himself in second person, remarks that, “[…] the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa… The white ones are the ones you want most… but usually the out-of-towners are black […],” (Diaz 2). In this example, one can see that the narrator believes it’s the easiest to have sexual encounters with black girls; this belief seems to have been made by a stereotype assuming that black people have a casual attitude toward sex but this is not true considering, in the end of the short story, Yunior fails to have any type of sexual interaction with any girl; this implies that his thoughts that certain ethnic groups have a certain attitude towards sex is incorrect because individuals vary from one another, hence everyone has a different attitude towards sex. The quote not only shows Yunior’s prejudice connection of race and sex, but that he’d rather have a certain girl over another another because of the superficial factor of race. This is a problem because Yunior is attracted to girls based, not on the girl’s personality, but the sex stereotypes of her ethnic group, illustrating that, for the narrator, sex doesn’t have a personal meaning. The narrator’s …show more content…
Though it may be acceptable to not need a personal connection to act on sexual desires, but it is problematic to lie to one’s partner and to be interested in someone based on outward factors; this imitation dating manual is a great example of why one should not behave those ways by displaying the harsh, but in this case fictional,