In the book "Chinese Girl in the Ghetto" pages 111 and 107 sound very sarcastic. On page 111 when she got into a fistfight she kept thinking how this was beneath her, how she has a 4.0 GPA and fighting is not what smart Chinese people do. She sounds very conceited if you ask me. Then she was wondering why no one came to defend her. She answered her own question on page 107 on how Chinese people prefer not to be a part of confrontation yet she wonders where her friends are when the fight happens. It sounded like she was making excuses for her friends when she said "maybe they were not close or maybe they chose to stay away." Sounds like she was in denial. She is ashamed that she is being treated this way.