" Class and the Politics of Writing "

This chapter from the book truly made me want to go and buy the book. Some of my classmates find it that the author is playing the " race card ". Which is very shocking to be part of a group of people that believe this. Sure she blamed the people that were in charge of publishing books which at the time been white folks. And even if the book itself was published in 1999 doesn't mean the events that took place were in 1999. Me myself don't believe that she is playing this so called "race card ". She is just defending herself and stating that the people that run the publishing of books are white people, and to be exact white men. So i don't believe this is a racial thing, but more of a sexist way of doing things. According to the author, many women were turned down because they simply were women, not because of their race or their sexuality just simply for their gender. Even though this happen centuries ago women are still treated this way. They don't get the same job tittle as a male, they don't get paid the same as a male and so on. Like in this article by the Boston Globe, http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2014/09/23/why-fans-ignore-women-pro-sports/A37CAUWxMv0cvF5xkkAe1J/story.html. The article not only states why people ignore the sports that women play but also how they are pretty much pushed to the side from the media most of the time. I just think society needs to step it's game up because there are still racist and sexist people around, and it's not going to change any time soon.

Little Failure.

Honestly, I wasn't a big fan of this "memoir" by Gary Shteyngart. Most of the information that he went on and on in the beginning weren't that much interesting to me. For a fact i did learn about his background and why he happen to had immigrated to New York, which is totally understandable. I happen to had gone through the same thing as he did, start a new life in a whole different country. He didn't take himself moving to New York as pitiful as I did. He was actually glad he was moving, even if he does mention different memories, which happen to be questionable at times. I wasn't surprised that racism landed in the class conversation. What I do wonder is if Gary actually don't consider himself racist anymore and if his actions are actually valid. He has this character which i really honestly wouldn't take seriously in person. The fact that he's a liar most of time and he admits it, and he complains about every time big of thing that goes in his life. Like hello? There's people out there that are going through a much serious thing than him just trying to make his parents happy. I understand for the fact that my parents expect me to be good in school and life, but that's what parents do. I don't think this book had a effect on me in any type of way. I know the school expected the students to be effected by the book but I don't think its a book the students could really relate to other than him going to college and being in a surrounding with different cultures. I give the book a 6/10.