In his letter, Woo refers to the time he saw his father humiliated by two white police officers. At the time of writing the letter she feels anger towards racist police officers, but at the time of the event she is a victim of learned behavior and also becomes part of her father's abuse. Learning to be ashamed of your father when he is unable to fit the “masculine” mold you have created for him is a socially taught and reinforced belief, which in this case manifests itself as a behavior when Woo says “I was so ashamed after experience when I was only six years old that I never held his hand again” (Woo, 164). In this flashback to his childhood, Woo and his father aren't the only ones expressing learned behaviors. The two white police officers who mock the Asian immigrant do so because somehow, whether through societal urging, or through their education, or in any other way, these officers have been taught to be racist. His father's learned helplessness is what gave him the ability to survive in America, the cop's learned racism helped them get ahead in a society that values ​​"whiteness". Just as in the case of racism, ignorance of sexism is also taught and is not encoded in our genes. Woo is disheartened that some of her Asian brothers don't support her fight for Third World women and against sexism. He points out that they are trading vices when "these black men, with a clear vision, fight racism in white society, but have bought into the white male definition of 'masculinity'" (Woo,