s;s friends who visited from the city. Her kindness had always been condescending, and she had always paid a bit extra for her berries with the air of doling out charity. (Gutterson 216)
Ilse Severson had stereotyped the Japanese family as peasants, and showed prejudice towards the Japanese people when she treated them with no respect and thought that they should be thankful that she was taking them on as a charity case.
When one person mistrusts another, it means that they are unsure about that person's loyalty or credibility. Most people are mistrusting of anyone that they don't really know. Since people strive to be accepted by their peers, conformity becomes a problem when a person's cultural or racial background is socially accepted at that particular point in time.
"Well, you're the man of the house, you wear the pants, go ahead and sell our property to a Jar and see what becomes of it." (Gutterson 121)
This demonstrates both how people will treat a person who is different in any way, and also how a person will exert a pre
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