This thought is similar to Daisy Buchanan's when she thought her daughter might just be a "beautiful little fool" (Fitzgerald 21), but Daisy cannot be blamed since she had lived decades into the 1920s, when many social changes had yet to occur. Since I'm an Asian girl, my parents don't have extremely high academic expectations for me: sure, they expect me to do reasonably well, but not that I'm exclusively obsessed with studying. Some Asian kids, however, are pushed academically to the breaking point. Nick Carraway's father had a reasonable idea: Nick should not judge anyone because "all the people in this world"(5) had not had the advantages and opportunities that a boy born into a wealthy family had had. Intelligence and reasoning tests tell us that women are as intelligent as men, but surveys of education, income, and living conditions show that they do not perform as well because the social construct tells us that it is wrong for women to have a strong sense of self. independence, extremely technical skills and confidence as opposed to self-deprecation. Social stereotypes have caused Judith Ortiz Cofer to be publicly humiliated a multitude of times. Although she was a highly educated Latina "earning some college credits" (Cofer 74) at Oxford University, she was serenaded by cheap men who thought she would be