(Untitled)

After talking about the poem "Untitled" by Frances Chung in class, I had some questions. I understand that the poem is a commentary on the intermixing of culture and how it has become a somewhat everyday thing, but it almost seems as if the speaker is still judging the man at the airport. There is a specific importance that the speaker seems to place on the parents of the barber, specifically stating, "His father was Chinese and came from Hong Kong. His last name is Jung. His mother is Mexican." Perhaps I am reading too much into the poem, but if this mixing of culture is starting to become ordinary, why should there be specific reference to the parents of one individual? It seems as though the speaker cares about this piece of information, and by twisting the idea of a sonnet, it almost is as if there is not something entirely right with the barber. It may be that the speaker is seeming to hide some underlying idea that no matter how ordinary a mix of cultures becomes, there is still something that will seem different about it, which again goes back to the idea that racism is normal, as upsetting as that idea is.