Mixed Messenger Summary
Michele Matos
“Mixed Messenger”
By: Peggy Orenstein In the reading, “Mixed Messenger”, Peggy Orenstein has an interesting take on her thoughts on racial identity, the role of race in society, Obama, and America’s rapidly growing, bi-racial nature. As a white mother of a biracial child, Orenstein has an interesting point as to how people view races and how discriminating and stereotypical people can be towards the mixing of races. For example, when Orenstein writes about the time “at the airport, when a woman waiting by the gate struck up a conversation with Orenstein, the woman immediately assumed Orenstein had adopted the little girl simply because she was Asian, and asked, “Do you know if her birth parents were tall?”.(126) It did not even occur to the …show more content…
Corliss writes about the many complex types of vegetarians that exist today—
“sproutarians to pesco-pollo-vegetarians”(608). However, Corliss quotes that “the rarest
vegetarian found today is the vegan vegetarians who do not consume, wear, or use any animal
product.”(608) The pesco-pollo-vegetarians are the ironic of them all because they are ““semi
vegetarians”, meaning they “do not eat meat however they eat fish and chicken””. (609) In a
survey taken, Corliss discovers that “more than half of the people who reported they were
vegetarian had eaten meat, poultry, or seafood whereas the other 37% had eaten red meat in the
last 24 hours.”(609) As a reader, this leads me to believe that in today’s society, people seem to
not take vegetarianism seriously.
People who practice vegetarianism diets often have a hard time fulfilling their daily
requirements because they are not well informed on following a balanced diet. Many vegetarians
can take the practice of vegetarianism too far. Orenstein gives readers a clear example of this
idea when he writes about, “a couple in Queens, NY who starved there 10 pound 16 month
“Mixed Messenger”
By: Peggy Orenstein In the reading, “Mixed Messenger”, Peggy Orenstein has an interesting take on her thoughts on racial identity, the role of race in society, Obama, and America’s rapidly growing, bi-racial nature. As a white mother of a biracial child, Orenstein has an interesting point as to how people view races and how discriminating and stereotypical people can be towards the mixing of races. For example, when Orenstein writes about the time “at the airport, when a woman waiting by the gate struck up a conversation with Orenstein, the woman immediately assumed Orenstein had adopted the little girl simply because she was Asian, and asked, “Do you know if her birth parents were tall?”.(126) It did not even occur to the …show more content…
Corliss writes about the many complex types of vegetarians that exist today—
“sproutarians to pesco-pollo-vegetarians”(608). However, Corliss quotes that “the rarest
vegetarian found today is the vegan vegetarians who do not consume, wear, or use any animal
product.”(608) The pesco-pollo-vegetarians are the ironic of them all because they are ““semi
vegetarians”, meaning they “do not eat meat however they eat fish and chicken””. (609) In a
survey taken, Corliss discovers that “more than half of the people who reported they were
vegetarian had eaten meat, poultry, or seafood whereas the other 37% had eaten red meat in the
last 24 hours.”(609) As a reader, this leads me to believe that in today’s society, people seem to
not take vegetarianism seriously.
People who practice vegetarianism diets often have a hard time fulfilling their daily
requirements because they are not well informed on following a balanced diet. Many vegetarians
can take the practice of vegetarianism too far. Orenstein gives readers a clear example of this
idea when he writes about, “a couple in Queens, NY who starved there 10 pound 16 month