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Re:Japanese American Bird Pins by geephroh on Monday April 08, 2024 @07:08PM (#39974631)
To be clear, we weren't "Japanese" victims. 2/3 of us were American citizens, and the remainder of the imprisoned first-generation immigrants -- many of whom had lived in the US for decades prior to the war -- were barred from naturalization because of their race. This would remain the case until the passage of the Immigration Act of 1952[1].

And while I don't wish to be overly prickly about it since you are obviously approaching this from a place of good intentions, you might want to read up on what we call the "model minority myth"[2]. The "success" of the Japanese American community in surmounting the challenges of the exclusion and incarceration experience has been used repeatedly as a cudgel in US cultural and political discourse wielded against other groups for their perceived failures in achieving the "American Dream." From what you have written here, I know that is not what you support.

1. https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Immigration_Act_of_1952/ 2. https://densho.org/learn/model-minority-myth/

Re:Japanese American Bird Pins by nonrandomstring on Monday April 08, 2024 @07:24PM (#39974725)
> 2/3 of us were American citizens

Also, I should remember this from George Carlin.

The "you have no rights" sketch [0] should be mandatory watching for every American.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnBLZkcgyyQ

Re:Japanese American Bird Pins by nonrandomstring on Monday April 08, 2024 @07:21PM (#39974703)
> you might want to read up on what we call the "model minority myth"[2].

That's a very interesting perspective. I can see how that could happen and how it feels for those demeaned by the comparison. Thanks for the link (and actually just for being engaging in what feels like HN becoming an increasingly hostile frenzy of flagging and downvoting everything).

Re:Japanese American Bird Pins by geephroh on Monday April 08, 2024 @07:57PM (#39974951)
Absolutely! I feel like I better understand your original comment as well, and I don't think you deserved to be piled on so aggressively. So many of our potentially thoughtful conversations are turning into circular firing squads these days.

Words do matter, but intentions matter more.