... a new term to associate with Asians, the word Asian Americans. Two Asian groups that seem to have experienced much of this discrimination are the Chinese and Japanese; mainly the second generation. The second generation Chinese and Japanese have many things in common as to how they were raised and their experiences as children. Both were told as children that education was a key point of ... also seek citizenship and be naturalized. The Chinese were now seeing a different side to America, the opportunistic America that they left China for. But the Japanese had a quite different experien...

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... Agriculture even with all the discrimination surrounding them. They controlled the market with their fruits and vegetables. White farmers saw the Japanese's success as a threat to them. Even though the Japanese could not own or lease land, the Issei (first generation Japanese in the United States) farmers were able to remain competitive with the whites because of their skill in growing intensive crops, use ... of unpaid family labor, willingness to cooperate if they had common economic problems, and ability to endure long hours and bad living conditions. The Japanese had a lot of determ...

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... can actually create a short video-like sequence." (www.shortcourses.com) The particular print which amazed me most was by Patrick "Pato" Hebert, comprised of three different family portraits. I realized that Japanese Americans were current on new inventions and incorporated it in their daily lives. Among other things which attracted me were a projected statue, postcards written to/from family members, and a modern ... Citizen's League's [JACL] newspaper, who used this during World War II. Adjacent to it was a Soho Professional Camera of 1930's which belonged to Toyo Miyakate, a noted is...

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... .."(#7) But, despite the above quote and others that resemble it, it is evident that stereotypes of the Japanese played a role in his decisions. Most notably was the occasion on which DeWitt stated that for the Japanese in America (even the second and third generation Japanese born in America) the "racial strains are undiluted."(#25) General DeWitt pushed constantly for the resettlement of ... the Japanese and for their internment. He was not alone in his crusade against the Japanese, nor could he have been. To imprison 110,000 ... sector who were adamant against internment, they were ...

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... the war front, accounts of two young Americans will be used to represent each cultural group during the three points of the war. The first person is Jeanne Wakatsuki, a second generation Japanese American. The second individual is Ira Hays, a Pima Indian living in Arizona. The beginning of the war came with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The declaration of war with Japan ... childhood; her father owned a small fishing boat and her mother worked in a cannery. She lived in a predominately white neighborhood and went to a white school. Although Jeanne's family had some typical Japanese tradi...

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... makers were doing. The anti-Asian American resentment spurred from the propaganda and hype of California becoming invaded and taken away from the majority by uprising Asian Americans, namely the Japanese. Although a mutual consensus of the immigration laws between Japan and the United States existed through the Gentlemen's Agreement of 1911, the negotiations and supremacist attitude of Californian legislatures ... of four major vocalized groups who all saw fit to exclude and terminate any further dealings with the Japanese immigrants. A surprising and ironic fact of the most ambient anti...

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... a Japanese girl who grew up in Seattle during the 1920s and 1930s, showed the readers another side of the life of immigrants in the United States. Her story reflected the gap between the Issei and Nisei – first and second generation, and the difficulties of being a Japanese American during ... this time period. In addition, the Japanese relocation to Idaho after the attack on Pearl Harbor on 1941 presented one family's strength when ... . The first thing to notice about Monica's story is the distinct gap between two generations. Nisei are torn between consenting to their Japanese anc...

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... Japan by prohibiting exports of steel, scrap iron, and aviation fuel to Japan, due to Japan's takeover of northern French Indochina. In response, the Japanese signed a neutrality treaty with the Soviet Union to prevent any fighting with them or Britain so that they could put all their energy into taking ... Southeast Asia. In June 1941, Japan forces occupied southern Indochina and in response, the Netherlands, Britain, and the U.S. cut off all exports to the Japanese, leaving them with very little steel, iron, oil, and other vital resources. In extreme anger, Japan tried many ways to fin...

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... her anger about the camps during WWII and her parent's passivity to go into those camps without any resistance. She is enraged by the stereotypes in the society for treating Japanese American with prejudice. In this essay relationship between Noda and her mother reveals that Noda is shocked with her mother's obedient character. These scenes and dialogue reveal that Noda identifies ... is not welcomed. Noda uses the word "face" several times in her essay. She is furious about the way she is treated due to her looks. Since Noda is a third generation Japanese-American she wants to be recog...

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... . In this paper I will be discussing the story of the Asian American woman and the Native-American woman. Asian American refers to many different groups. These groups include the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Guamanians, Philipinos, and Vietnamese. The fact that this term does refer to so many groups and is very broad for the sake of argument in using the term Asian ... Americans assume that it means the Chinese, Japanese, Philipinos and Koreans. Asians are now living here in the US and according to many recent studies they are on average making more that the average white. Asian Americans...

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... some questions for me. They said that the new main graphic was nice, but that I should take it down because "it was over." WHAT! OVER! I guess some people in my generation just don't see the magnitude of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001. TV reporters have compared it to Pearl Harbor. The fact is that this attack was much worse than ... Pearl Harbor. In Pearl Harbor, the Japanese, using warplanes, attacked a military base. The attack on Sept. 11 was an attack on CIVILIANS with OUR AIRCRAFT! The planning and resources that it must have taken to execute the ... I hear is people talking abo...

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... , and the Asian American Experience. Obvious examples of this can be seen when looking at the wars America has fought in the past half a century. World War II involved the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbour, the 1950's saw the beginning of the Korean War, and the 1960's saw the war in Vietnam. The three successive wars involved Asia, with no clear resolution ... to the latter two. Every generation alive at the time was affected, and I honestly believe it created a new passion for hate against anyone of Asian descent- the text exemplifies this when it discusses how Asian Americans ... ...

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