ZZ Packer's story "Geese" takes place mostly in Toyko. This is important because Dina is not from Toyko, and generally neither is the audience. This means we are just as culturally confused as Dina through the course of the story.
The thing that is important about seeing Dina as the outsider, is that back in her home, the locals considered all Orientals to be the same. "Chong's is Chinese, Miss Gloria" "Same difference."
Arriving in Japan, Dina is now the outsider. "Everyone was looking at them, and she'd never felt more foreign, more gaijin"
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