A really interesting point was made regarding the discrimination against the Japanese in the US during WWII. Even though Germans were the main enemy of the war, German-Americans were not discriminated against in the US as the Japanese were. That is really curious. How come no one was afraid that the Germans in America would “spy for their home country”? Quite racist, really.

Also I understand the idea of how Asian-Americans don’t feel like they completely identify with Asians nor are they fully seen as American. It is like even if you want to identify with a certain group, that group does not see you as a part of them because of something that is different about you. Even though some Asians want to identify with Americans, they feel like the Americans don’t see them as American because “American” is “white”. At the same time, the Asians at their home country do not see them as “Asian” either since those people already have so much American in them. It is kind of a confusing dilemma for a person’s identity.

It is difficult to imagine a solution to these issues though because if so many people aren’t influenced against racist thinking by now, it feels like it will be a slow process. That is why cultural education and integration of different cultures into everyday American life should help alleviate this problem.