yoshino

By “the mainstream is a myth” Yoshino means that the “mainstream” is falsely represented. It is because people need to hide their differences in order to fit in the society. Since everyone is hiding his or her differences, there isn’t any truth.
Yoshino gives various examples to persuade the audience. The examples vary from general ideas to specific cases of discrimination of people for being different. I would say that his reasoning is persuasive because it is personal. He does not only give one general example, but he gives few different specific examples so that different people could relate easily, which makes his argument even stronger to appeal to the audience.
I would define “mainstream” as something that is not deep but only the image of what people see on the surface. Perhaps similar to when you’re at an art museum, when you’re just glancing over at an art piece would be “mainstream”, when you could take more time and really observe what is happening in the piece.