Snow Falling on Cedars
What are some quotes that show the racism and prejudice in the novel "Snow Falling on Cedars" by David Gutterson?
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"Puts me in mind of a type of gun butt wound I saw a few times in the war. One of those kendo strikes the Japs used."
"Kendo?" said Art Moran.
"Stick fighting," Horace explained. "Japs are trained in it from when they're kids. How to kill with sticks."
"Ugly," said the sheriff. "Jesus."
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Then—and afterward he would remember this, during the trial of Kabuo Miyamoto, Horace Whaley would recall having spoken these words (though he would not repeat them on the witness stand)—he said to Art Moran that if he were inclined to play Sherlock Holmes he ought to start looking for a Jap with a bloody gun butt—a right-handed Jap, to be precise.
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Thirty-nine Japanese worked at the Port Jefferson mill, but the census taker neglected to list them by name, referring instead to Jap Number 1, Jap Number 2, Jap Number 3, Japan Charlie, Old Jap Sam, Laughing Jap, Dwarf Jap, Chippy, Boots, and Stumpy—names of this sort instead of real names.
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With all the seriousness of a fortune-teller she predicted that white men would desire Hatsue and seek to destroy her virginity. She claimed that white men carried in their hearts a secret lust for pure young Japanese girls. Look at their magazines and moving pictures, Mrs. Shigemura said. Kimonos, sake, rice paper walls, coquettish and demure geishas. White men had their fantasies of a passionate Japan—girls of burnished skin and willowy long legs going barefoot in the wet heat of rice paddies—and this distorted their sex drives.
Snow Falling on Cedars