I thought the last reading was good in particular because it connected all of the history we have read about in class. It has made me realize many things and how unforgiving America can be to Asian Americans. It was powerful how Takaki explained that all the history of Asian immigrants connects to Asian Americans in the late 1900's and 2000's.
There's still a lot of inequality based on race today and that's the most frustrating part of the whole thing. Our nation's constitution is nothing if our nation and government cannot commit to its principles. I thought this quote summed up a lot of the reading: "The killing of Vincent Chin happened in 1982, not 1882-the year of the Chinese Exclusion Act". A lot has changed since the exclusion act, but there is also a lot of subtle racial inequality that still exists today.
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