To say we are inscrutable, mysterious, exotic denies us our common humanness, because it says that we are so different from a regular human being tha… - Maxine Hong Kingston

" "

To say we are inscrutable, mysterious, exotic denies us our common humanness, because it says that we are so different from a regular human being that we are by our nature intrinsically unknowable. Thus the stereotyper aggressively defends ignorance. Nor do we want to be called not inscrutable, exotic, mysterious. These are false ways of looking at us. We do not want to be measured by a false standard at all.