"Roots"

This reading was particularly interesting to me. In my high school and even in my college history courses, the treatment of Japanese Americans during the war was largely overlooked or overshadowed by lessons involving foreign nations. This was interesting to analyze because it is almost considered human nature to  hide from or diminish our own mistakes. I found the comparison that the congressman made between those in internment camps and rape victims to be very eye opening. Society tends to turn on the victim as it seems simpler to place blame then to address a larger problem. Especially in a time of raging patriotism, I cannot imagine being the "other" so marginalized and physically segregated. I thought that the story involving the wife and husband in the internment camp was particularly touching as she described her confusion when she was forced into a camp even though she was an American citizen. There is something to be said for the inability to control the definition of one's own identity. This "limbo" or rejection is similar to other readings that we have read so far as minorities are confined to a small segment of society and never fully incorporated.