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Hauki Poem

• I am an American undergraduate student…• According to the rules, a haiku poem is supposed

to have 17 syllables in it, 5 in the first line,7 in the second and 5 in the last line.

• http://www.slideshare.net/facinghistory/becoming-american-essay-quotes

Immigration

• http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/07/05/EDGOBIPUA81.DTL&type=printable

• http://www.fmgondemand.com/PortalViewVideo.aspx?xtid=34175&sysInfoRedir=true

Japan

Group Activity– Place the cartoons in proper historical context. What was going

on in the world when these cartoons were published? – What images are used to portray the Japanese or Japan? – Why do you think these negative images were used? Do you

think they are accurate? – If you read the cartoons back in the 1940's, what feelings would

they incite? What conclusions would you have drawn about Japan and the Japanese?

– How would you have perceived Japanese Americans (or Asian Americans) after reacting to the cartoons?

– How do you think U.S.-Japan relations affected Asian Americans in the 1940's?

– Do you think that U.S.-Germany and U.S.-Italy relations had similar effects on German Americans and Italian Americans during the 1940's? Why or why not?

– Place the cartoons in proper historical context. What was going on in the world when these cartoons were published? [WWII]

– What images are used to portray the Japanese or Japan? [monkeys and apes, vermin, demented psychopaths, killer giant]

– Why do you think these negative images were used? Do you think they are accurate?

– If you read the cartoons back in the 1940's, what feelings would they incite? What conclusions would you have drawn about Japan and the Japanese?

– How would you have perceived Japanese Americans (or Asian Americans) after reacting to the cartoons?

– How do you think U.S.-Japan relations affected Asian Americans in the 1940's?

– Do you think that U.S.-Germany and U.S.-Italy relations had similar effects on German Americans and Italian Americans during the 1940's? Why or why not?

How to Tell Your Friends from the Japs. (

Time Magazine. December 22, 1941, p.33)• List at least five major differences between

Chinese and Japanese which are pointed out by the article.

• Which of the differences make little or no sense?

• Why do you think the article was written? • How much power do you think the media has

in influencing our perceptions of people and issues?

• List at least five major differences between Chinese and Japanese which are pointed out by the article.

• Which of the differences make little or no sense? (Practically all of them are merely reflections of the times and their authorship and say virtually nothing about Chinese and Japanese. What difference is there--assuming any truth to the comparison--for example, in an average height of 5'5" and 5'2 1/2"?)

• Why do you think the article was written? (There were, of course, important reasons. Japanese were defined as the "enemy" of the U.S. There was widespread fear of being attacked, given our experience at Pearl Harbor. It was important for us to support China in the Far East; thus our view towards China was one of sympathy due to our perception of them as "weak" friends in the Pacific.)

• How much power do you think the media has in influencing our perceptions of people and issues?

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JAPANESE East Asia (Japan)

NIHONGO courtesy of Saediman and Charels Allard Jr

NEE-HOHN-GOH (Japanese is unaccented) courtesy of Kenji Chikata

Hello Ohayo kozaimasu Konnichi wa

Oh-hie-yoh-koh-zie-mah-soo Koh-nee-chee-wah How are you? Konnichi wa Koh-nee-chee-wah

Very good Totemo ii yo Totemo ii desu

Toh-teh-moh-ee-ee-yoh Toh-teh-moh-ee-ee-deh-soo

Please Dozo Onegai shimasu

Doh-zoh Oh-neh-gie-shee-ah-soo

Thank you Domo arigatou Arigatou gozaimasu

Doh-mo-ah-ree-gah-too Ah-ree-gah-too-koh-zie-mah-soo

You're welcome Dou itashimashite Doo-ee-tah-shee-mah-shee-tay

Goodbye Sayounara Sah-yoo-nah-rah

I love you Ai shite imasu Ie-shih-teh-ih-mah-soo

What I KNOW What I WANT to know What I LEARNED

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