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A Chapter Summary Of A Different Mirror By Roland Takaki

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When I first started reading the book, I realized the author and I have faced similar situation, as he rides in the taxi, the driver assumes he is not from the United States because of the way he looks, even though Roland Takaki speaks English perfectly. Roland Takaki’s ancestors are from a Japanese decent and the driver assumes Takaki isn't from San Francisco based on his looks. I have faced a similar situations growing up. Both my parents are from Mexico and people make assumptions of the stereotypical Mexican worker that cannot understand English. As I continued to read the first chapter Roland Takaki introduced the idea the making of multicultural America. I agree with Takaki’s view of the world, the …show more content…

The world continues to take in the idea a white American has more power than any other ethnic group all around the world, and if a person isn't born with light skin and blue eyes their future is already limited by society. Takaki predicts that eventually every ethnic group will eventually be viewed as a minority group. I agree with Roland Takaki’s prediction, the world will never truly accept minority groups as equals because nobody wants to be a lower class citizen and as Takaki demonstrates is by writing about how Hilter wanted people of Jewish decent to be established as lower class citizens and so did Osama bin Laden in which Al-Qaeda attacked the United States back in 9/11/2001 . Many wars also have had the same intention, to establish dominates over another minority group which has provided one group to keep all of the power another using tactics such as fear. The world has to change and we need to stop assuming one ethnic group is better than another if we do not wars and economic catastrophes to keep occurring like 9/11 . The next part of the book caught my eye because before Christopher Columbus set his voyage to the new world, Viking had

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