The Seven Chinese Brothers by Margaret Mahy

            The Seven Chinese Brothers is a book that is full of racial biases. The Story line is that of seven brothers that have to save each other from an evil emperor and his armies. They do so by pretending to be each other and using their powers to protect each other is different situations. This book is full of biases that are offensive. First of all, all of the Asians in the story look exactly the same. Their facial features hardly vary at all the seven brothers are literally identical to each other. Another bias is that the author completely leaves out the role of women in the story. In fact, she leaves women out of the story all together! These are just two examples of biases see in this book. The only real purpose I see for this book is to make student s aware how untrue the before mentioned biases are and to educate them about the truth.