Japanese internment in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, caused a new sense of ethnic and national identity within the Japanese American community. In Jane Naomi Iwamura's article, "Japanese Americans and the Birth of a New Civil Religion,"" the author argues that: "what has emerged from the collective experience of war and internment is a faith that is tied to no particular religious tradition, but that takes racial-ethnicity identity as its starting point. ... In other words, the author states that the experience of internment and war for the Japanese peop...

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Where the Early Modern Era was still deeply rooted in its recent past due to the ideals of communal sentiment, religion, and the rule of the monarchical government , the Modern Era saw the world transform from empires to nation states with respective national identities and hardened geographic boundaries. ... However, this system, though dominant, is under threat from competition, especially relating to rising countries such as China and Russia who maintain distance, as well as internal problems such as the threatened loss of cultural identity and meaning. ...

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