Daniela G G itibaren Asalatpur Farakh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India itibaren Asalatpur Farakh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India

What a marvelous cliffhanger of an ending! I cannot wait to read the next novel.

(Reread and rewritten August 30th 2011) The Chinese, facing extreme discrimination in the Pacific Northwest, came to Arizona over land and via Mexico. When their numbers increased into the hundreds, employment moratorium laws of ten years duration were enacted. They didn't work. If the labour offered is cheap, good and works long hours, then that's exactly what employers are looking for and will take. Its the same situation as today, a lot of real soundbite nastiness then about the Chinese, now about the Mexicans, 'they don't speak English', 'they take away our jobs', 'they aren't of our religion/culture...', and worst of all 'they don't belong here'. All very xenophobic and not addressing the real problem which is that people want goods at the very cheapest prices and refuse to recognise that this is impossible if they are to pay legal wages and benefits. If Americans were to have cheap food and goods, then they would have to turn a blind a eye to how costs were kept down with cheap Chinese labour, despite the puffery of the media and blustering, over-paid I'm-one-of-you vote-for-me politicians and so they did and continue to do. If people today really want illegal immigration and employment of - its Mexicans now - to end, all they need to do is be as diligent in investigating the sources of the cheap supermarket food and goods as they are about items using child labour or chemical fertilizers and insecticides and pay extra for 'legal' items. As with organic food, if the demand is great enough, there will be farmers and manufacturers willing to supply, at a price. But don't hold your breath. The law that was most sad of all but was the saving grace of the Chinese, was the law saying that all marriages from anyone with one drop of not-White blood with anyone White were illegal but all marriages between everyone else, no matter what race or religion they espoused, were valid. This included the local Indian tribes, Mexicans, Blacks and Asians all of whom were free to intermarry as it would not matter if they 'diluted' and 'polluted' their second-rate races. The Blacks, Indians and the indigenous Mexicans were all legally American citizens. Savvy Chinese saw this as their way in and married local Mexican women, had children they did not teach their language too and raised them as Catholics. Still second class maybe, but second-class, English-speaking voters and that makes all the difference.

Much more interesting that the movie.