Strangers From A Different Shore Chapter 5

The Chinese and Japanese immigrants faced many similar issues with exclusion from society at large being the most prevalent.

The many racial slurs seem to lack a proper grammatical structure.  Were these racial slurs reflecting the nature of pidgin english?  "Jap Go Home" instead of "Go Home Japs."  Was this intentional or spontaneous?

Takaki describes in detail what was done TO the Japanese immigrants, but only has a few accounts of how the Japanese immigrants responded.  Given his nature to include the negative aspects of the victims, this is probably due to a simple lack of accounts of people who talk about they reacted to what was being done to them.  Every time I read something about how an immigrant was spit on, I naturally want to know how the immigrant reacted!

A boulder hurtling down a mountain is not so easily stopped by what many today would call "common sense," "wisdom," and "logic."  Whenever Takaki describes a dimension of discrimination, I am always stunned and baffled at the extent to which it existed.  The many dimensions of discrimination are the like the boulder which cannot be stopped so easily.

The decision by the San Francisco Board of Education sparked a response from the Japanese government.  What about all the other discrimination?  How did the Chinese and Japanese governments view the everyday social injustices being committed?

Takaki is also fond of quoting Japanese and Chinese-oriented newspapers.  Whenever I read the quotes, they don't have as much of a punch as a quote from a general newspaper would have had, because the editors and reporters for said page most likely suffer from many of the injustices they're outcrying against, as they are most likely Chinese or Japanese.  It just demonstrates that the social outcry by immigrants was not reaching many ears.