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Cultural Dispute With Appearance

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In addition to cultural dispute with appearance, she displays a dispute with her appearance in size. Cofer states that she was described as the “4F, skinny, short, bespectacled” (Cofer 326) I believe that people tend to focus too much on what the right definition of appearance is, however there is no solid definition. Society’s standards on appearance shouldn’t be driven from a person’s cultural background. While she had to learn the consequences of being a brown girl, she also had to readjust her own perceptions of beauty to fit in the mainstream perception. Cofer states, “I wanted first a powerful body” (Cofer 339) and furthermore states that she already had the reputation as a ‘shrimp’ and that’s why no classmate would choose her to be part

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