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I have to say I never understood the hatred towards the Japanese from people during that era but now I can at least see where they are coming from. I have been mistaken as Japanese and have been called "Jap" (in not a nice way) many times. It doesn't bother me so much because I know it comes from a place of ignorance but I think back to the Japanese Americans living in Hawaii at the time. I remember reading about the treatment the Japanese Americans serving in the US Navy got after the attack. But yet they were so proud to be part of the US and called their own people "them". I guess the same way my parents think of the Communist Vietnamese. My father served in the US Navy and my mother worked for the US Army. To this day, if they hear somebody speaking with a Northern Vietnamese accent, let's just say they aren't exactly cordial.
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