In class today there was a statement made that Jin was racist. I find this to be both true and false. I think that all Jin really wanted to be was accepted, so some of the things that he may have said could have been interpreted as racism. Jin really just wants to fit into the American mold and not feel like an alien.
The point was raised that if Jin just wants to be accepted then why right when Wei-Chang starts going to school there he has the need/desire to beat him up. It was concluded that he may not be racist towards others, but just toward his own raise. I think he wants so desperately to fit in that having someone else who is Chinese almost puts him as a set back in his eyes.
All in all I don't think that he was so much racist as he just yearned to fit in with his schoolmates and not have the looming stereotypical Chinese aspect hang over his head.
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