https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese Choose option 1 or 2 to respond in a detailed paragraph. 1) Have you ever wanted to be someone else? What would you change about yourself? What do you like about yourself that you wouldn’t want to change? What do you like about yourself that you wouldn't change? 2) What is more important? Fitting in or being comfortable with who you are? Use examples from American Born Chinese to prove your point en-us 2018-12-17 18:12:07 UTC 2025-12-09 17:10:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ninja.png https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese/wish/315324185 I think that it's more important to be comfortable with who you are than to fit in. People think that fitting in will make them confident or feel good about themselves, but if you're not being yourself you'll never be truly happy. In American Born Chinese, Jin tries so hard to fit in by speaking English, acting "American" and finally becoming Danny the varsity basketball player. But in the end he's still unhappy.]]> 2018-12-17 19:35:36 UTC https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese/wish/315324185 https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese/wish/315324252 i think being comfortable with who you are is more important because then you don't have to fit in to be comfortable. For example in american born Chinese the monkey king must return to his original form to be released from the mountain of rock under which he was trapped. And finally you must be comfortable with who you are because then you can do what you want when you want.]]> 2018-12-17 19:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese/wish/315324252 https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese/wish/315388786 In my opinion, it's more important to be comfortable with who you truly are. You can "fit in" all you want and be unhappy or be comfortable with yourself and not "fit in". You can't truly be happy if you aren't happy with who you really are. You can find temporary happiness by fitting in, yes but being true to yourself will make you feel better about yourself in the end. In the book, Jin tries to "fit in" by getting a perm and no one really noticed except his friends and Amelia. Jin changing his hairstyle shows that he is willing to do anything to "fit in" in his school. After Jin changed his hair, he didn't get much happier did he? All he got from changing his hair was Amelia calling him "the asian boy with the afro". 

]]> 2018-12-18 01:01:07 UTC https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese/wish/315388786 https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese/wish/315768602 I think it is way more important to be comfortable with who you are rather than try to fit in because if you are constantly trying to change who you are you will never be happy with yourself and be able to have fun. In American Born Chinese, Danny was really embarrassed of Chin-kee because he was trying so hard to fit in at his new school but i think if Danny had focused more on being comfortable will himself, he would have enjoyed his visit with his cousin instead of being so embarrassed of him to whole time.]]> 2018-12-19 05:21:29 UTC https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese/wish/315768602 https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese/wish/315963459 I think that it is much more important to be comfortable with yourself before anything else. Once you love yourself and the confindent with yourself then fitting in will not be so hard. If you are always worried about fitting in but you aren’t comfortable with yourself then you’ll never be able to properly fit in with people that you think you should. The story of chin-kee shows an example of this when Danny is only worried about what other people think of him ]]> 2018-12-19 18:04:27 UTC https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese/wish/315963459 https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese/wish/315992773 i think that it is important to be comfortable with who you are because if you try to fit in without being yourself it will result to becoming someone you don't wanna be. in the book chinkee is himself he frill and frolliks around saying stuff he wants, laughing, and expresses his feelings. im not saying that you should be like chinkee but i think that his personality is unique and everyone should express their personality in their own way. ]]> 2018-12-19 19:18:06 UTC https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese/wish/315992773 https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese/wish/315994019 When I was a kid, I really liked to play pretended, and be someone I wasn't for a lunch break, or however long it lasted. Maybe that's why I like theatre, I can be whoever I want and have a specified mold that I fit into, so that one could escape from reality. I know that sounds really deep, but I hate being indecisive, and since nobody really knows who they are at this age, I think it's an interesting experiment to pretend  to be different people and see where you actually fit. I rather like myself, so I wouldn't change anything. There's nothing that I'd do differently. This is terrible. I'm going to delete this. Okay peace. out, bye. ]]> 2018-12-19 19:21:14 UTC https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese/wish/315994019 https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese/wish/315994131 I think most people either do want else or HAVE wanted to be someone else.  I mean, as a kid I've wanted to be many people.  I've wanted to be Princess Peach from Super Mario, I've wanted to be the yellow guy from the Wiggles.  I don't know why exactly, but I did.  However, did I want to be these people because I didn't like who I was?  Not really.  In fact, I couldn't have cared less about who I was back then.

And what about now, as a full-fledged teenager who is in middle school, about to go into high school?  Do I want to change myself?  I found that when I first came to Don Ross, the first thing I thought of was to fit in.  I mean, I didn't change myself, but my appearance was VERY not me.  I'd ask, even beg to go shopping with my sister, only to be standing in the Forever 21 store all awkward and unable to choose an outfit.  I asked my hip n trendy sister to pick them out for me, and dear god.  I must've looked so out of place on the first day.  I looked like a girl from a fashion magazine.  That's not the look I wanted, but the look I thought I had to have in order to make friends.

I've found now that I don't need to force myself to look like the rest of the folks in my school, so here I am.  I also no longer push myself to act different around people.  That means that I am no longer awkward, but I am awkward with a hint of my own personality.  It's a step forward, right?

And that's something I like about myself - my personality.  Okay, maybe not.  I have a love-hate relationship with my own personality.  At times, I find it extremely cringy, at times I find myself very funny.  I don't know.  Even though I do have moments where I dislike my personality, I'd never want to change it.  I would rather not be anyone but myself.

Wow, I'm so inspirational.  [Hair flick]

In a way, I'm kind of like Jin Wang.  I tried to fit in, but ended up finding some sort of confidence with who I am.

This is really long so I'm gonna end it here.]]> 2018-12-19 19:21:31 UTC https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese/wish/315994131 https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese/wish/315995943 This book relates with a lot of people in the world. Everyone tries to fit in and sometimes when doing that there is some bad effects. Some people just don't understand that its ok to be unique and different. Its in human nature to try to fit in , and comparing . I do that, and I think that everyone has had that feeling at least once in their life.I really liked this book.]]> 2018-12-19 19:25:58 UTC https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese/wish/315995943 https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese/wish/316062975 I didn't get to finish the book, but I'm taking a shot at this assignment, though it might be sans examples. If a magical genie came up to me and said, "Hey, you can change anything about yourself! Do you want to?" well, of course I would! I'd make myself like, the strongest person ever, I'd add five notes to the top of my singing range, and I'd cut off my right arm, and grow a new arm, because I don't like my right arm. Or, at least that's what I'd think at first, but then I'd realize that I've spent years improving my bass technique in my right arm, and I'd change my mind about that one. And then finally, I'd change my mind about my the other things to , maybe... no, definitely. Because, no matter how small the feature (even if it's my vocal chords being approximately one third of a millimetre shorter than I want them to be), I've come to learn that humans are complex instruments made up of tiny little traits, not one big trait and without even one of those tiny little traits, our whole identity is altered, and I like my identity right now. 

"You can be whatever you want to be, if you forfeit your soul." That's what the creepy old lady in the book said, and honestly, my soul is not on the market right now, no matter how flawed it is. I'm not sure the exact definition of a soul, but I'm assuming that without mine, I can't feel joy, so if I change into something, or someone else I like more, what's even the point if I have to trade my soul? I wouldn't be able to feel happy about being a better person. This whole argument depends on the fact that my assumption your soul controls your emotions is correct. I will admit that there have been times where I would gladly trade my soul to be someone else, forget who I was, lose my soul or whatever, but I can't. I can't change the fact that I'm human, and I'm scarred, and clueless, and when people push me over, I'm not numb to the pain, so I can tread carefully, and avoid some of the pain, and scarring, or I can close my eyes, forget to think about the risks, and dance in the dark, I might get hurt a little more than the latter, but at least I'm having fun, and truly being myself, rather than treading lightly which is quite difficult when you have the coordination, and volume level of an elephant. I'd like to close this by making all who read this aware that, that was a metaphor, and I cannot stand dancing.]]> 2018-12-20 02:30:11 UTC https://padlet.com/MsLe/Americanbornchinese/wish/316062975