In her letter, Woo refers to the time she saw her father humiliated by two white cops. At the time of writing the letter, she feels anger towards the racist police officers, but at the time of the events, she was the victim of educated behavior and also participates in her father's abuse. Learning to be ashamed of your father when he is not able to fit the "masculine" schema you have created for him is a socially taught and reinforced belief, which in this case manifests itself in behavior when Woo says, "I I was so ashamed after that. experience when I was only six years old that I never held his hand again” (Woo, 164). In this flashback to his childhood, Woo and his father are not the only ones to express learned behaviors. The two white cops who mock the Asian immigrant do so because somehow, whether through societal incentives, the teachings of their upbringing, or some other way, these police officers learned to be racist. His father's learned helplessness is what gave him a chance to survive in America, the cop's learned racism helped them advance in a society that values ​​"whiteness." Just like racism, ignorance of sexism is also taught and is not coded into our genes. Woo is discouraged by the fact that some of her Asian brothers do not support her fight for third world women and against sexism. She points out that they exchange vices when "these men of color, with a clear vision, fight racism in white society, but have bought into the white male definition of 'masculinity'" (Woo,