People have been cursed with categorizing others into certain groups just by race. Some people still think that most Muslims are terrorist, but at the time of Pearl Harbor most saw moving all the Japanese Americans away as a good thing. The time of the Japanese internment, there were no real riots. “But some were troubled by the removal of their friends and neighbors.”(WETA) The population of America has gained 185 million people since 1941, which means more people to …show more content…
Near the end of the story the family comes back home and finds their home to be a disaster. With the money the government gave them, a whole twenty five dollars, “which is the same amount they gave criminals after releasing them”(Otsuka pg 118), the family buys a mattress. The night after someone throws whisky though a window destroying the mattress. The government still say the Japanese Americans as criminals and the society which the family lived in was discriminated. If the Japanese ever bombed America again the people who disrespected them the first time would replicate their emotion, but with more