In the first story "The Meaning of a Word" by Gloria Naylor when she was called a “nigger”, she went and ask her parents what the word meant. Her family had used the term around her so she thought it was something positive. She had heard that word all her life but she didn’t really hear it until she was called it. For the second story "Being a Chink" by Christine Leong she saw the word “chink” written down at the bank. The bank was owned by Caucasians people and the envelope was address to her father so the people were calling her father a “chink” .She had never really had gotten upset until she saw it was degrading her father. She said that word was supposed to ridicule them but instead it did the opposite because it brought the Asian Community