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. Japanese Americans have developed no less than their own brand of civil religion"" (939). In other wo...

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... , 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. At the beginning of the nineteenth century the world economy had experienced a rapid increase in trade, capital and labour flows. A clear tendency of prices of goods between countries ... ...

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