The first person is Jeanne Wakatsuki, a second generation Japanese American. ... Although Jeanne's family had some typical Japanese traditions, none of the children spoke any Japanese. Jeanne was a second generation Japanese American along with her brothers and sisters. This meant she was an American citizen, something her parents and other first generation Japanese Americans could not become. ... The wartime hate against Japanese was at its peak. ...

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Ranging from th e times of the Chinese in California to the migration of Japanese and Korean workers on the sugar plantations in Hawaii, all faced various forms of racism and dealt with individual problems in their own fashions. ...

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