There he experienced culture shock, as most students assumed that he was not American because of his Japanese heritage, a misperception that he frequently experienced during his lifetime. Takaki later applied these questions to his scholarly endeavors, as evidenced in A Different Mirror, where he interrogates “how we know what we know” about American history.Īt the urging of his high school teacher, Takaki attended the College of Wooster in Ohio. The teacher pushed Takaki to consider epistemological questions like, “How do you know what you know?” (442). During his senior year of high school, one of Takaki’s teachers greatly influenced him, shaping the trajectory of his professional career. While Takaki’s parents did not have much formal education, they valued leaning and enrolled Takaki at a private school. during its start much of the labor was actually done by white servants. Takaki makes many descriptions on the beginning of slavery that many people never even recognized. When Takaki was five, his father died and his mother remarried a Chinese immigrant. Chapter 3 of Takaki’s book entitled A Different Mirror, he focuses on the beginnings of slavery in the early colonies. Born in Hawaii in 1939 to a Japanese immigrant father and a Japanese American mother, Takaki grew up in a multicultural environment with many other ethnic minorities, learning different languages and lifestyles.
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