MWT’s Reviews > A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America > Status Update

Passed the part about how they got rid of the anti-Chinese law in the 1960s, followed by chain migration via Chinese university students. That's how my parents got here and I can totally see my father's entire family having followed my father in that way.

Just passed the part where he talks about how Custer was actually sympathetic to the plains Indians and wished he could live like them. And made it sound like maybe his Last Stand was him letting them win. It seems out of place in a history about everyone who *isn't* a WASP, that is supposed to be from the multiculturals' perspectives. I mean, I'm sure Hitler had humanity somewhere in him too but...

The Euro-centric perspective continues for how black slavery came about (how it transitioned from white indentured servants). Also, the narrator is kind of annoying - the cadence of his voice means that everything emphasized is too loud, and everything quiet is barely audible (in a car while driving). I prefer narrators that make their volume more even and consistent.

I assumed this book was going to focus on non-white-European perspectives. So far this hasn't been the case; while the first couple chapters are fairly critical of English attitudes at the time that Virginia was being colonized, it's still almost all about their attitudes, not what the natives thought of them at the time. This might be due to a lack of written records from the natives however, so I'll keep listening.