Part of Your World focuses on issues of beauty surrounding women of colour. In attempts to balance the old world with the new, Asian immigrants not only reinforce patriarchal and heteronormative ideals of their past but also absorb racial and gender norms of their new surroundings. For Asian females, success is defined not only by their academic achievement, but their ability to secure a comfortable future through reifying compulsory heterosexuality and attracting a husband. The toxic mixture of living up to the model minority myth and striving for the American dream has also reinforced the Western ideals of beauty. The trinkets represent the alarming standards of white beauty Asian females strive hard to achieve, only to realize they are “set up” for failure. The delicacy of gender specification in early childhood is reflected in glass, highlight this contrary duality; perishable yet perpetual.