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I found this one fascinating. I too was expecting something depressing about how the relocations were awful for the Japanese Americans. I was really surprised at Sone's mother and the way she found something positive in everything, like the dandelions growing thru the floor. That must have been such an awful thing to have been here for 25 years and then be locked in a camp just because of your heritage even if you were born here. It was interesting to read about how crowded it was when they ate. How did our government justify putting the Japanese Americans in these camps when part of what we were fighting for in Europe was to liberate the Jews from the concentration camps? I know the American camps weren't exterminating people but stil they were holding them indefinately in cramped quarters and there were never any charges brought against them other than the fact that they were Japanese descendants. It just amazes me that this could take place in the United States! ~~ Mary Beth Conrad | I found this one fascinating. I too was expecting something depressing about how the relocations were awful for the Japanese Americans. I was really surprised at Sone's mother and the way she found something positive in everything, like the dandelions growing thru the floor. That must have been such an awful thing to have been here for 25 years and then be locked in a camp just because of your heritage even if you were born here. It was interesting to read about how crowded it was when they ate. How did our government justify putting the Japanese Americans in these camps when part of what we were fighting for in Europe was to liberate the Jews from the concentration camps? I know the American camps weren't exterminating people but stil they were holding them indefinately in cramped quarters and there were never any charges brought against them other than the fact that they were Japanese descendants. It just amazes me that this could take place in the United States! ~~ Mary Beth Conrad | ||
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| + | Everyone should read the novel, Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson. It is about a lot of things, but largely focuses around a nisei girl's experience from the 1930s to the 1950s, including internment. It is also just a darned good book! But as far as the reading goes, what I really found interesting was the author's assertion that in spite of the emotional trauma suffered by all the interned Japanese people in the American west, young, second generation Japanese women gained many opportunities, especially in terms of careers, as a result of the war and internment. Whether the general westernization of these women is looked as a good thing, it is clear that the second generation's ideals, goals, and roles hugely contrasted with those of their mothers'. ~~ Jackie Reed | ||
== Ruth Marshak, “Women of Wartime Los Alamos” == | == Ruth Marshak, “Women of Wartime Los Alamos” == | ||
