Maistream is a Myth

First, I would define mainstream as the in which people have to conform and change they way in which they behave in order for people to acknowledge them as Americans. He describes this behavior as something that is almost expected from these people. This is because they all want to feel like fit into the society, which is mostly, white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant. Pleas notice how one of these groups is religious, I just thought it was interesting since a lot of people are constantly trying to escape religious prosecution. They do this because the want to fit in, and in order to do that, I feel that they have to change their characteristics and become something that they aren't. This all stems from the Melting Pot idea that if we all fit in and get along, then there will be less discrimination, which I totally disagree with. Discrimination will always exist as long as people remain different, it is something we can try to control, but no matter how hard we try; it will still be there.
Like me, Yoshino also believes that this is a myth, and that it is inevitable that people will cover up themselves to fit into the mainstream. The myth applies to groups that lay beyond the traditional groups that we think of, the civil rights groups. If we each have our own identities, then it is impossible for this myth to exist. Therefore, if we have no freedom, then we cannot be individuals. Freedom is what allows individuals to be themselves.
I think he writes in a way that allows the reader to think that it's all right to be themselves, and how the courts can sometimes work against people who are different. If you are not part of the mainstream, then you are not treated as an equal, even in the courts. I love how he says that nobody is normal, and that basically the only way a person can be normal is to be themselves.
I personally loved this essay, and he really provided a valid argument, that made me think about the ways people try to fit in. When you really look at a person, you cannot classify them as being normal or not, that is their decision in my opinion.