Interview excerpt of Ms. Hisako Kato

The prejudice was coming out a lot more, I think, as the days went along. There's the propaganda on the radio and then even at school when your own friends are wearing these 'I am Chinese' buttons. And I'm sure that the kids themselves didn't feel it that much but they were told by their parents not to associate with the Japanese students or something. A lot of the friends that you had were kinda ignoring you or keeping their distance.

Taken from TimeMagazine December 22, 1941 [double check]

Points for Discussion:

Propoganda in the popular media during World War II
Chinese as an ally to the United States

Social construction of race (to the extreme)

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