McAPUSH: Hope Richards- Snow Falling on Cedars

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Sunday, July 27, 2014

Hope Richards- Snow Falling on Cedars

I am reading Snow Falling on Cedars. Right now I am sharing the book with my sister while we wait for our second copy to come in, so I haven't gotten as far into the book as I'd like, but so far the book is pretty good. It's a little slow at the moment, but I expect for it to get more interesting and exciting pretty soon. American prejudice towards Asian-Americans (especially Japanese Americans) after World War II is one of America's best kept secrets, so I was really excited to see a book that talks about it because I think that as a society we don't talk about that time in our history enough because we are ashamed of it. While we should be ashamed of the poor treatment of our fellow Americans at that time in our history, I believe that we should also talk about it often, so that the same mistakes will never be repeated again.