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Japanese-American Culture Cultural diversity has helped us understand other culture contributions by learning about Japanese- American internment camps, 1960’s Harlem, and mexican american culture. To begin with, Japanese- American internment camps made America weaker but, when they got out of the camps it made America stronger. “A fellow came running down the wharf shouting that the Japanese had just bombed Pearl Harbor”(Houston, 6). This means that the Japanese who did nothing wrong were to get hurt. The bombing was the beginning point of the book and made it start all of the events. “Bare floors, blanket partitions, one bulb in each apartment dangling from a roof ceiling, and open ceilings overhead”(Houston, 28). This shows that the Americans

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