Sound Blog Response #4

"I wasn't very nice..."

storycorps.org/listen/kay-wang/

This lady is great, I think she is a very funny kind of person. She doesn't really care what people think of her and she just does what she wants. The story stories that she tells in the interview paint that kind of a picture in my head. Like the story of how she would spill hot tea on her mom if she made her apologize for something. That gives me the feeling that she was a really big hooligan in her young years, to disrespect your elder in an Asian family, especially back then, is a huge no-no.

Another thing that makes me think this lady is a free spirited person is the bloomingdales story. She accused a millionaire designer of stealing her own dress. Even when the designer asked "do you know who I am" she didn't care if she was pissing off  an important person. She just cared that she was stealing a dress. Even to this day knowing who the designer is she still calls her a thief. I also love how in the interview she tells her children when its over, they can barley coax her into talking about anything she didn't feel like talking about.

"By the time I was in the second grade, everyone was calling me Raymond."

storycorps.org/listen/ramn-chunky-snchez/

I think its ridiculous that teachers changed the names of students. Your name is your identity and only you should have the power to change it. Teachers shouldn't be changing students name so that they would be more "american." They should help their students embrace their cultural roots rather then try to get rid of them. What gives the teachers of that school the right to "americanize" these boys and girls. I wonder if this happened in schools all over or just ramon's.

The other thing I enjoy about this story is Ramon's vioce, its not what I would expect from a guy his sized. When I first heard it i started to laugh really hard because I was so surprised by his voice. I kept laughing and had to replay it because I missed most of it. The second time through I noticed a lot about his voice and how he spoke. It is kind of amazing, his voice is pretty high pitched but is has a rasp to it that gives it the age that makes sense to the picture. He also speaks quite quickly and for me that adds a kind of wisdom to his speaking since he must know his stuff if he can talk that fast without being tripped up.