Week 4 Response

In Falling Leaves, the grandma talks about how she had binded her feet to make them look good. In China at the time, small feet on a woman was very attractive apparently. So she had hurt herself to enhance the way she looks. But when she is older she tells her daughter never to bind her feet. Basically, the grandma had hurt herself to be more accepted in society. Do people have to go through pains to be accepted in society? I think that a lot of people do have to go through pains to be accepted in society. Such as immigrants. They have to endure the racial stereotypes people spit at them and they have to deal with learning a new language and all that stuff. Also people who are below average people (as in social class), they are looked down upon and if they don't make more money, society will also look down upon them.