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Assignment:

Pretty like a white boy by Drew Hayden Taylor

1. How does humour help to communicate a serious subject in this essayof self definition? do you think that this humour masks Drew Hayden Taylor's true feelings about his ambiguous status?

2. How does Taylor feel about being part of a blue eyed minority in a larger brown eyed minority?why does he feel he does not fit in either group?

3. Hiw does taylor present as a victim of the preconceived idea of how every indian looked and acted? why is he treated with suspicion by other indigenous people?

4. Taylor relates a number of incidents involving misunderstanding about his identity. how do some of these incidents reveal racial tensions between non-indigenous and indegenous peoples?what is the role of "show business" in creating and maintaining indigenous stereotypes?

5. What are the advantages of indigenous culture, according to to taylor? how does he satirize some of the pretensions of non indigenous culture?

6. What does taylor think anbout the possibility of living in both culture? what absurdist solution to the problem of belonging does he find in the end? what are the serious implications of his humorous decision to "secede from both races"?