When the Emperor Was Devine

During the times or World War II Japanese Americans were one of the groups that were highly discriminated against. The American government sent all Japanese Americans to internment camps claiming that they were "protecting" them from the rest of the country. Trying to hide face that we had done something wrong, america left most of these fat out of the history books. Many students have no idea exactly what happened to the Japanese americans during World War II, or have even heard about these people being put into these camps. America, being a super power didn't want to be seen as this country who  did these things that other countries had done. We portray ourselves in America as the worlds savior,  or the worlds super hero. Anytime something happens in another country we are right there to help, but in the case of our own country help isn't there and we try to cover up the wrong doings that occur. America has been in shame of this fact that we discriminated against our own people blocking them off from the rest. A new age racism placed together by fear of what could happen or the worst case scenario of Japanese spies taking information and relaying it back to the Japanese government. Even within the first chapter of this novel, we can see all those facts come out in the scene with Joe Lundy in the store. Instead of acknowledging the fact that the japanese women was going to be placed in and internment camp because of his government, he tried to sway away from that fact by giving the women something for free as if that would be a nice gesture before she left for the camp. Also, we could see that the japanese family was just a regular Japanese-American family. They had their patriotic flags and also her victory garden shovel, showing that they were a patriotic american family like all others.