... States during World War II is an example of a memory and piece of history that has been effectively preserved and subsequently, transferred from generation to generation. Unified under a collective drive to achieve a certain means, the Japanese-Americans were able to create a strong and shared memory whose involvement with several individual concepts of memory (commemoration of the past through memorials ... in many ways interrelated. For example, collective memory is a set of individual memories shared by a group of people that is typically passed down from generation to generation (Cos...

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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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... , 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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