Part of this chapter spoke about neither people living in the united states that were not white, nor where they what we traditionally believe as colored. The chapter did an excellent job explain how hard it was for people of Mexican American, Chinese American, African American, etc. to assimilate into the United States culture. Most people in the United States held very xenophobic view to foreigners yet employers were drawn to foreigners for their cheap labor.
The book went into great detail describing the different stereotypes that were associated with each nationality and something that I am wondering if some of these stereotypes do still exist. Or have some of them faded away?
Some thing else that I found interesting was the focus given to Asian American and Mexican Americans , in school we are not really taught about how segregation effected these people and that they also had to go to separate schools. I am wondering why this is glossed over in public education today?
One of the last things that I found interesting was this idea that to educate is to make subordinate and to erase previous culture, does education make us better at following? Does education brain wash us into taking directions better and erase our free will?
