After watching the videos, take 3-4 minutes to "freewrite" in response to what you saw.

That is, just

write down or type out everything that comes into your head, without editing. Don’t sit and ponder--
keep your pen moving or your fingers typing, and just externalize what’s in your thoughts. (Later, if you
would like, you can include this in your Course Journal document for extra credit, but for now, just
hang on to it.)

The first thing that comes to mind the parallel between Japanese internment and latino
detainment. I get what they’re saying, and absolutely they can use their voices however they like,
but it isn’t the same thing. Japanese internment took people away from their property and
livelihoods; those immigrating illegally have already abandoned their property. As far as I am
aware, a massive repercussion of Japanese internment was the government seizing and selling
Japanese American property, something unprecedented to happen to citizens. Immigrants being
detained for not having papers. Granted, asylum seekers are different from those coming for
work, but there is precedent for detaining non-citizens, bad as it may be, but the government
rounding up its own people is notably different. This may sound like a comparison of trauma, but
really, I am just trying to situate how the two events are different in a legal framework. Perhaps it
is also harder for me to relate to border internment as it isn’t such an egregious violation of the
constitution.

Before Tuesday's meeting, choose one (or more) of the readings mentioned above, and freewrite for
about five to ten minutes about how it demonstrates an ideal of Japanese American community, and
how it contrasts with others. Save this piece of writing to be included in the Course Diary assignment
(instructions to be provided later).

The first set of poems in Yokohama, Japan, have a brilliant parallel between Japanese cultural
expectations and American condescending demand for obedience. I believe this is a Nisei voice,
and I would also be very interested to see what a Japanese citizen of the same period would
have to say. I think it would make a great point of reference for this course, especially this exact
parallel. Japanese culture was rocked after their surrender, and I wonder how quickly they
adopted Americanisms, and how strongly some did or did not hold onto the feudal moral code.
The second poem makes me realize these “aliens” would have seen more of America than I have
on their train ride, in more ways than one. Have children get even was a good line from the next
poem, but she recognizes the hypocrisy, or the halfheartedness of the joke of marrying a
whiteman at least, as she goes to marry one. Third world woman sells out, due to real activists
wanting to make change. If it were today, it would be a NYT bestseller, but as a coffee table
book for Facebook liberals, today, it is not punk to “demand” change.

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Must look into.

We remember the silence of our grandparents and great-grandparents around

whatreally happened to them in the concentration camps and all they endured.
We remember our parents, some of them doing their best to achieve the
AmericanDream, believing it to be accessible to us. We understand, the myth of the
meritocracy isseductive, the promise of capitalists enticing, the model minority myth
gives the illusion ofagency, of access
Frankly, this is more obnoxious rhetoric that came with Donald Trump’s election. It was
everywhere for years. In a sense, you are dredging up pain that is not really yours to flaunt to
make a statement against a politician not of your party. Sansei were able to reconcile, and work
with their communities, as Nisei fought for reparations, but suddenly Yonsei are the Marxists.
Trump came and went, but his policies were seen in the presidents before and after him. What
difference does it make if you denounce him as a man, or remind him of American history, if his
person does not really change your life, or those of 10 innocent Afghan children. Sure, you can
denounce capitalism too, but that is the opposite direction: too broad a sweeping change, never
to be implemented, falling on deaf ears or else joining the cacophony of an echo chamber.

ROUND THREE: Now, think about how the videos relate to the readings. What points of
connection or conflict did you see between them? (You can respond here if you want, or save
this for the TAKEAWAY post.)