Throughout Yoshino’s story, I found that his definition of covering was in a way spot on. I thought that he used the word in the right context. He gave the definition right in the beginning of the text, but then used some more context to fully define it. Yoshino states, “Everyone covers. To cover is to tone down a disfavored identity to fit into the mainstream. In our increasingly diverse society, all of us are outside the mainstream in some way. Nonetheless, being deemed mainstream is still often a necessity of social life. for this reason, every reader of this book has covered, whether consciously or not, and sometimes at significant personal lost” (Yoshino 452). I liked how Yoshino incorporated the fact that we all cover something of ourselves that we don’t favor, even if we know it or don’t know that we do it. He goes on into the next page giving examples of famous people who covered something of theirs so they could fit in the mainstream; ethnicity gender, sexuality, and name. Yoshino quotes, ” I doubt any of these people covered willingly. I suspect they were all bowing to an unjust reality that required them to tone down their stigmatized identities to get along in life” (Yoshino 453). With what he says, I agree with him. I found this quote to be true in most cases of people covering up a part of them. You see a lot of this in today’s celebrity life. Most celebrities cover up something so they will only be seen as a person with no flaws. Anyone who covers their stigmatized identities is only hiding their true self and showing their false self.