This is because the narrator believes that racial characteristics can determine the behaviors observed in an individual. Yunior orders hiding racial characteristics to get closer to achieving physical intimacy. Yunior states that "a halfie will tell you his parents met in the movement, he'll say back then people through it was a radical thing to do" (Diaz 201) and "a local girl can have hips and an ass big but she won't be quick to let you touch it” (Diaz 203) continues to discuss how the accuracy of a stereotype could be or can be used to determine a person's behavior author, the chance that someone will have the same experience is low. In my experience, hiding one's racial characteristics is a contradiction of one's personality. It is not worth hiding one's racial characteristics if a person desires emotional intimacy rather than l physical intimacy because this could cause conflict between