Difference between revisions of "328--Week 10 Questions/Comments"
From McClurken Wiki
(→Norma Yerger Queen, daycare worker in 1944) |
(→Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Schoolgirl at Manzanar, 1940s) |
||
| Line 87: | Line 87: | ||
I don't think that the Japanese are unique in wanting a daughter to marry a man from the same ethnic background. I think that this has been a trait exhibited by other nationalities as well. What did strike me in this piece was a sense of creating an existence that seemed normal. Jeanne talked about school and after school activities like any other child. She doesn't project a sense of hopelessness. Instead she continues to study and develops interests in activities that she will continue once she leaves the internment camp.--LisaM | I don't think that the Japanese are unique in wanting a daughter to marry a man from the same ethnic background. I think that this has been a trait exhibited by other nationalities as well. What did strike me in this piece was a sense of creating an existence that seemed normal. Jeanne talked about school and after school activities like any other child. She doesn't project a sense of hopelessness. Instead she continues to study and develops interests in activities that she will continue once she leaves the internment camp.--LisaM | ||
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | Jeanne Wakatsuki is being raised in America and therefore has American dreams and ideas, however her family has traditional Japanese ideas for her. It must have been difficult for young immigrants. Really, what were they supposed to do? There families came to America for a better life for there family but wanted to keep there traditions. It does not work that way. The kids are being pulled in both directions. --Nikole Wellman | ||
== Photograph collections at Library of Congress == | == Photograph collections at Library of Congress == | ||
