"Snow Falling On Cedars" ( David Guterson )

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Individual judgments of Kabuo Miyamoto are profoundly affected by racial stereotypes in David Guterson's novel Snow Falling on Cedars. In the first place, Miyamoto was placed in an internment camp, along with other Japanese-Americans, on the basis of racism and nothing else.

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"Individual judgments of Kabuo Miyamoto are profoundly affected by racial stereotypes in David Guterson's novel Snow Falling on Cedars. In the first place, Miyamoto was placed in an internment camp, along with other Japanese-Americans, on the basis of racism and nothing else. Miyamoto and the others were seen as dangerous enemies of the United States on the basis of their racial heritage, their skin color, their facial features, their names, and nothing else. There was absolutely no evidence that Miyamoto had committed any crime against the United States or posed any danger to the United States, but he was placed in an internment camp nevertheless.

While it is true that there is evidence which suggests his involvement in the murder of the other fisherman, Carl Heine, that evidence seems, to the reader, at least, if not the other ..."

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