Funny in Farsi
What does Firoozeh’s experience at Disneyland
where she is encouraged to communicate with another missing child in her native Persian, tell us about how people who do not speak English fluently are viewed?
where she is encouraged to communicate with another missing child in her native Persian, tell us about how people who do not speak English fluently are viewed?
There is a sense of otherness that the women at the lost and found at Disney feel towards Firoozeh and the lost boy. They think that because Firoozeh and the boy have darker complexions, they must speak the same language. Although they seem to mean well, these women show a sense of ignorance and perhaps unintentional racism.