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This 3 page paper discusses Yoshiko Uchida's memoir about her time in a Japanese internment camp during WWII. Her crime and that of her family was simply being of Japanese descent. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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their heritage as Japanese Americans. The Pearl Harbor attack, like the attack on 9/11, brought out the very worst in the American character: fear, a tendency to isolationism and a
persistent xenophobia that we cannot seem to stamp out. Hundreds of thousands of perfectly innocent people were sent to concentration camps simply because they were of Japanese ancestry, and the
shame of this action lives to this day. This paper discusses the book Desert Exile, written by Yoshiko Uchida, who was one of those interned, and describes what effect the
war and internment had on their lives, and whether they would describe WWII as a "good war," as is often argued. Discussion There are quite a few books now on
the internment of Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians during World War II, so the terms "Issei," "Nisei" and "Sansei" are not unfamiliar; the first refers to Japanese who were born in Japan
and emigrated to the United States; the Nisei are the first generation and the Sansei, the second (Readers Guide to Joy Kogawas Obasan). It seems that the terms are often
used as a sort of "classification" system, or perhaps shorthand, to discuss the opinions and attitudes of the Japanese who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time
and wound up in camps. The Issei often simply went along obediently, as was their tradition; but the Nisei were not as willing to let the United States abrogate their
rights. And it is the Sansei, the second generation, that is writing about these issues and seeking to have the wrong redressed. But it would be wrong to suggest that
the Issei simply went along because it was expedient; rather they exhibit a "quiet, stoic dignity in the face of humiliation" and it is this quality that provides the family
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