Race and Stereo-typing

           Gary Shteyngart throughout his book "Little Failure" speaks of many things such as race, immigration, drugs, etc. The one that peaked my interest would be race. He was Russian Jewish, as he explains in the memoir he says that he grew up with having to fear African American (dark skin) because they would rob you. In class it was brought up that with race comes stereo-typing and its true because not only do people in general are raised to believe certain things about others, it's that they don't try to socialize with that certain group. In my opinion it amplifies the thought that after so much time; race and stereo-typing are what gets people to separate as race than to consider each other as human beings. Gary Shteyngart was able to portray that to me because he took everyone in as humans.