Back for the first time
Posted Jul 19 2007
I thought that this article was sad because Donna's grandparents were killed and her parents lost everything when an atomic bomb was dropped in Japan and they had to return to the U.S without anything. It is also sad because her mother had a hard life raising three younger brothers from a young age. She was able to complete her high school in Japan but still had a really hard time since she was an American-born Japanese. To me it is sad how people that come from other countries suffer. All people suffer, but mostly people that migrate do because they get discriminated against. I think she was good at over coming her challenges. People made fun of her but she was still able to make new friends. It was interesting to read about the differences between the U.S and Japan, but she still struggled with both cultures. I think she did a good job of dealing with both of them.-Eva A.
This interview of Donna is really sad for several reasons. If I was in her place I think that I wouldn't be able to take all that suffering that her family went through. While I was reading this interview my thoughts about different immigrants changed. The ways that it made me change was that I thought that it was easier for Japanese, Salvadoreans, or any Central American to get their resident papers once they were in the United States. But it seemed that for Donna's family, even though they were born here in the United States they suffered through a lot of things just like Mexicans or any other race that wants to come to the United States. So, reading this sad story of Donna changed my thoughts-Tania D.
It interested me that life for these Japanese or Japanese Americans is the same as other people, like African Americans, Latinos, and other ethnicities. Life for all these people seemed to be cruel, lonely, sad and challenging. Much of the time their privileges were been taken away when they want to return to their original country. In my opinion, it's not fair for these people who have family back there and want to meet up with them.
Life for Donna was hard at the beginning and throughout time too because she was in the same situation as other people who are not "real Americans" as the meaning of been white, blue/green eyes and blond hair. Her ancestors were coming from other country. As a little girl she grew up going to American schools. Even though she was given the opportunity to go to a school where she was going to learn how to develop her Japanese language and culture better she didn't want to and as the years passed she started forgetting the things that her parent taught her.
Now days we see this with so many other people too like Latinos coming from Mexico, Salvador etc... Races that learned how to speak rhw English language and started forgetting Spanish, just like what happened to Donna. Once they're here they start acting more like Americans. One thing that I agree with Donna is that even though life wasn't that easy for her she manages to have a good one. If I had the chance to ask Donna something, it would be would she really would like to stay and live in Japan would or would she rather stay with her normal life here in America?-Deisy C.
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