Being Asian American Essay
All the words that can fill the ocean: prejudice that Asian Americans are facing
Nowadays there are a lot of Asians are trying to move to America. Asian American society is becoming one of the biggest societies in the world. People have started thinking that if they really should become an Asian American. Asian American is the group that have “yellow” skins who lives in the “white” society; Asian American is the group which may facing the problem that the life change from a communism country to a capitalism country; and Asian American is the group that lives in the country which their cultural and history are different than their traditional cultural and history. What it looks like or feels like to be an Asian with “yellow” skin lives …show more content…
It’s told through the eyes of a Japanese Canadian girl who is only five years old named Naomi Nakane. Obasan is told in flashbacks as Naomi Nakane looks back as an adult, finding out what really happened to her family and their loved ones during this horrible time in history. In the 1940s, following the Pearl Harbor attacks, Canadian citizens of Japanese descent living in British Columbia were forced to move to the interior due to fear of espionage. First men between 18 and 45 years of age were moved to camps, and then entire families had to leave their homes and were divided in the process. Naomi, a third-generation immigrant, is forced to leave her house in Vancouver and moves with her brother and her aunt to Slocan, an abandoned mining town. Her mother, who had temporarily returned to Japan with her grandmother, simply vanishes from her live, and the full horror of their ultimate fate is only revealed at the end of the book, in Naomi’s adulthood. Her father, who was ill, is left behind. After Slocan, they are forced to move to a farm in Alberta where they are exposed to extreme hardship and forced to live in appalling conditions. This book is a reminder of what happens if people, acting individually or collectively, let fear take over and guide their actions. Great injustices are committed if we act out of blind fear, and unfortunately, during the war, even those who were fighting against the atrocities of Nazism let other injustices take
Nowadays there are a lot of Asians are trying to move to America. Asian American society is becoming one of the biggest societies in the world. People have started thinking that if they really should become an Asian American. Asian American is the group that have “yellow” skins who lives in the “white” society; Asian American is the group which may facing the problem that the life change from a communism country to a capitalism country; and Asian American is the group that lives in the country which their cultural and history are different than their traditional cultural and history. What it looks like or feels like to be an Asian with “yellow” skin lives …show more content…
It’s told through the eyes of a Japanese Canadian girl who is only five years old named Naomi Nakane. Obasan is told in flashbacks as Naomi Nakane looks back as an adult, finding out what really happened to her family and their loved ones during this horrible time in history. In the 1940s, following the Pearl Harbor attacks, Canadian citizens of Japanese descent living in British Columbia were forced to move to the interior due to fear of espionage. First men between 18 and 45 years of age were moved to camps, and then entire families had to leave their homes and were divided in the process. Naomi, a third-generation immigrant, is forced to leave her house in Vancouver and moves with her brother and her aunt to Slocan, an abandoned mining town. Her mother, who had temporarily returned to Japan with her grandmother, simply vanishes from her live, and the full horror of their ultimate fate is only revealed at the end of the book, in Naomi’s adulthood. Her father, who was ill, is left behind. After Slocan, they are forced to move to a farm in Alberta where they are exposed to extreme hardship and forced to live in appalling conditions. This book is a reminder of what happens if people, acting individually or collectively, let fear take over and guide their actions. Great injustices are committed if we act out of blind fear, and unfortunately, during the war, even those who were fighting against the atrocities of Nazism let other injustices take