![]() When she's transported back to modern times, after living in the internment camp for a year, she's more aware of the prejudices so prevalent in today's society, recognizing that history is on the brink of being repeated. ![]() She isn't in touch with her Japanese culture, and hasn't learned much about this event in school either, considering that a lot of the information has only been declassified recently. Kiku is taken back in time, living through her grandmother's memories of the American Internment camps. I've never made a conscious effort to really learn about this event, the way I have with other events (especially in this period of time), and it's imperative that this cycle be changed. And while I blame the education system here as always, I blame myself, too. While I know that it happened, I don't know to what degree, or what actually happened. As someone who lives in America, I'm embarrassed to say that this is one of those topics that I don't know all that much about. ![]()
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