The short story “How to Date a Browngirl, a Blackgirl, a Whitegirl and a Halfie” by Junot Diaz is the main character, Yunior, the guide to dating girls of different races and ways of acting to get what you expect. The only thing Yunior seems to want for these girls is sexual acts. This short story argues that a person's heritage, economic class, and race affect how a person identifies and how their identity affects how they act toward others. The pressures a person may feel from society also have an effect on how they treat themselves and others. Society's pressure and expectations are also what makes Yunior think he needs to have sex with these girls. There are many different occasions where the main character speaks and acts differently to other people in the story, for example: to himself, to his friends, and to different girls he is trying to date. Throughout the story, it is evident that the main character is ashamed. of himself and his past. He hides the cheese from the government, which tells us that he is of a lower economic class. He also takes embarrassing photos of his family and himself, further indicating that he is not proud of his family, his background, or his heritage. Yunior also tells us many things to do to be like others, especially white people. He tells us that you should run your fingers through your hair and write the instructions to the parents in your best handwriting (Diaz 236). It is also evident that he is ashamed of his origins when he says, "You'll wonder what she thinks of the Dominicans." Don't ask. » (Diaz 237). Also, when he tells the girl stories about the neighborhood, he tells her not to tell him that her mother immediately knew what she had... in the middle of a paper... didn't probably never did anything. This. This guide is probably just compiled from the various things he's heard from other people. He's probably heard things from the people he's trying to impress and be accepted by, possibly his father, uncle, or other boys in his neighborhood. He may have felt like he had to do these things because he believes that everyone else is doing it, that to be "cool" you have to have sex. Yunior is ashamed of everything he is. His parents and his heritage, his appearance and his race. This news also suggests that not only are girls being pressured to have sex, but boys are as well. This is why he makes up stories in order to appear experienced, so that he can have something in common with the people he wishes to accept. Works Cited “How to Date a Browngirl, a Blackgirl, a Whitegirl and a Halfie” by Junot Diaz