Read the following excerpt and
answer the following questions.
.....
(Adopted from Trevor Noah, Born a Crime
pp. 54-56)
1.
What does the author mean by “I
became a chameleon” in the first line in the last paragraph? Why and how did he
become a chameleon?
2.
Name factors other than a language
ability that could change other’s perception of your appearance. Use bullets to
describe.
3. Out of necessity, the author became a “chameleon”
in a positive way, but it might be sometimes unacceptable to
not be yourself or stick to your policy. Write your idea about it.
Answer Keys
1.
What does the author mean by “I
became a chameleon” in the first line in the last paragraph? Why did he become
a chameleon?
By “I became a chameleon,” the author means that he
came to be able to change his racial, and tribal, identity projected to the
mind of the person he is talking to in response to the person’s race, and
tribe. He is a person of mixed race who grew up in a society with racial and
tribal diversity, which made him often the target of discrimination and
violence. To survive in the circumstance, he learned the languages of the races
and tribes around him. Speaking the same language as the others are speaking saved
him from being regarded as a stranger.
2.
Name factors other than a
language ability that could change others’ perception of your appearance. Use
bullets to describe.
◍Sense
of Humor If we can laugh together about
the same joke, we are the same kind.
◍Clothing How you dress yourself shows where you are
from.
◍Item
of a Certain Social Group People carry
items of their social group to show their identity.
◍Religious
Icon This shows others whether you serve
their god or something else.
◍Your
Company If you are a friend of my kind,
you are cool.
◍The
Way People around You Treat You Blending
in a scene in harmony, you can pass as one of them.
◍SNS
Postings about You SNS postings often
fix the way others look at you.
3. Out of necessity, the author became a “chameleon” in a positive way, but it might be sometimes unacceptable to not be yourself or stick to your policy. Write your idea about it.
When you are responsible to someone for something
related to the person’s belief, you should not be a chameleon, changing your
character or identity from one to another. A parent should stay the same as
they were yesterday in front of their children; otherwise, they would be
confused and lose their trust in their parent’s integrity. Teachers, coaches,
and other people in the same kind of social position must be careful not to
change their basic style or policy they present to people they are in charge of
for the same reason. Also, when your circumstance is wrong in light of
universal values or against what you have grown up with, you cannot conform to
the circumstance, losing yourself and becoming part of the phenomenon. Since nothing,
neither times nor people, stays the same, you have to stubbornly abide by the
unchangeable such as ethics, rules of civil society, and your roots. Society
makes people behave differently from one moment to another, wearing totally
different personas in response to the change of the atmosphere of the circumstance.
It might be necessary to some extent, but it is in essence dangerous. It could
drive us to our demise because we do not know what we are doing when we let not
our wisdom but the atmosphere control us.
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