Takaki

The beauty of Takaki comes from infusing history with personal experience, so the reader is not only getting the facts, but the emotions that go along with these facts. I can only imagine what it must feel like to come through to a land where you try to make a better life, only to find that you are being treated horribly.

I was also unaware of the facts, I thought Asians really didn't start to immigrate to America until the 1970s or 1980s. Just imagine my shock and surprise when I found out it was over a hundred years earlier!

It also opened my eyes to the continuous American treatment of immigrants. This cycle of fighting illegal immigrants is a vicious cycle that has been going on for hundreds of years. America has no problems taking advantage of these immigrants for labor but does not want to give them citizenship. It happened with the Africans, Asians, and now Latinos. Even though these races have been woven into the racial and cultural cloth of America, the "white-superiority" mentality still remains active in the minds of many people.