“What are you? People say this to me as a pick up line in a bar or a question to prove their own assumptions about my race.” (Lee, 41).’ This quote shows how having different culture affected the way people lived as it is shown in the story “Hapa” as well as the poem “Legal Alien”. People with different cultural backgrounds have been judged based on their appearances. The authors from “Hapa” and “Legal Alien” both explained how they must tolerate other people by the way they treated them. Cultural differences can change a person’s life in a negative way by being stereotyped, and by being mistreated because of an unalike background.
Many people with different culture has been stereotyped based on the image that they