Reading

Do I Look Like Public Enemy Number One

          This story had a really interesting name. When I heard the name, I sudden wanted to know what the story would be about. Then I chose it as my next reading assignment, This story was really deep, it hid a lot of meaning and feeling of the author, Lorraine Ali. The most interesting in the story were how American and Arabic make the stereotype and discriminate again each other without trying to understand and know each other. How funny when we talk about Arab, most people's mind will pop up the picture of bomb-lobbing religious fanatic or the violent religious people who love to burn other religion's temple. I mean, many stories were true, but many of them were made up stories also. This story showed that people loved to think everything base on themselves and believed without logic. The first question that came in my mind was “should Lorraine Ali deserve this kind of bad life?.” Then the next question was about how many innocent Arab or American kids had a bad life from adults' bad attitude. The good example was when Lorraine's sister was a kid, and her friend asked her that was their dad a bad people. This was so oblivious that the old generation planted their bad attitude as hate and fear in their children's head. In my opinion about this story, we can learn a lot from it, and we should look into ourself first who we are, to see that we are the same kind of people in the story or not.