My cousins are Korean, but were brought here as infants, so they have the distinct category of being 1st generation immigrants, but completely American. I just recall hanging out with them when people would ask, 'do you speak Chinese?' I also have a friend who is 4th generation Chinese from Oregon, who was terrified travelling in China that her passport would be stolen and she would not be able to get back to the US, and I said, well, they probably would have known by your clothes and accent you weren't native.
But I'm glad Shimomura speaks from his personal experience, hes speaking to everyone who's ever been marginalized and misrepresented, not just Japanese Americans, and rather than gloss over the past, confronts it and makes it his own, I gotta write him a fan letter.
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Date: 2011-08-12 03:18 pm (UTC)But I'm glad Shimomura speaks from his personal experience, hes speaking to everyone who's ever been marginalized and misrepresented, not just Japanese Americans, and rather than gloss over the past, confronts it and makes it his own, I gotta write him a fan letter.