"Iron Cages" by Ronald Takaki

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The paper reviews Takaki's book "Iron Cages", which presents the foundation of White America's relationship with other races and cultures that also consider themselves to be Americans. The paper's author believes that Takaki wants to understand why white men don't want to get along with other cultures and how they arrived at this opinion. The paper concludes that Takaki states that, unless all Americans learn to live together in cooperation, the social health of the nation is in jeopardy.

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"In the first part of Chapter One, Takaki launches into a discussion of the American Revolution and how John Adams once thought that, if the British won and severely wounded the fledgling country, it would be a good thing. Already, within just a few months of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Adams saw corruption, greed and malice. He was upset by the lack of virtue that the new American people had and concerned about whether it could be stopped before it got much worse and infected everyone in the whole country with unkind thoughts toward their neighbors."

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