Hwang The Play
Hwang (play)
At first when I read the play I was surprised to complexity of both the characters. Benjamin is a Caucasian Asian American, and Ronnie is a fully assimilated Asian American both has different ideas of race. Benjamin sees race as something we learn from our environment that we were brought up in and not just our looks. While Ronnie sees heritage as mostly the features we have and not just what we learn about our races history. I have been mistake for many different races based on my features. However, I was never had a conversation about my race like the characters in the book. At the end, of the play I found it sad that Benjamin was going to Chinatown to see the place his adoptive father grew-up. The play seems to
At first when I read the play I was surprised to complexity of both the characters. Benjamin is a Caucasian Asian American, and Ronnie is a fully assimilated Asian American both has different ideas of race. Benjamin sees race as something we learn from our environment that we were brought up in and not just our looks. While Ronnie sees heritage as mostly the features we have and not just what we learn about our races history. I have been mistake for many different races based on my features. However, I was never had a conversation about my race like the characters in the book. At the end, of the play I found it sad that Benjamin was going to Chinatown to see the place his adoptive father grew-up. The play seems to