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The protagonist, Chungpa Han is a model minority whose role resembles that of an avatar. He seems to be well-equipped with both cultural and educational capital as a middle-class foreign student. His legible experiences and the dimension in which he maintains them can be transferred to the United States from Korea where he is a foreign student.
Kang (1997) explains the earlier student experience in terms of what they were able to practice, what they faced, and the changes that followed their new status and position. The United States is known for its hierarchical nature as pertains to Asians vis-à-vis blacks and immigrants. In order to neutralize his racial otherness, the narrator seeks to call on his class privilege. This is eventually successful when at the long run, he is in terms with the white