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The full interview with George Takei is here: https://youtu.be/MB_Y8wotxUM
We had a very poor internet connection, so my apologies for the jitteriness of some of the interview.
Max, my admiration for you just keeps growing! God bless…
Lengua is amazing. But it takes a bit of skill to prepare.
Being Asian American, I appreciate you sharing this part of our American history. I know I learned about this in high school and met one survivor who wrote a book about his experience.
3:26 yeah you are right most of them are idioys thank you for making it clear
リメンバ～広島オブながさきぃ～WWW
Think about unit 731, and then think again
Thank you for this fantastic video
日本人にとって餅は、年末に親族で集まって作り、作物の実りや家族が健康に過ごせた事に感謝して神様や仏様、先祖にお供えする物であり、正月料理にお雑煮、焼き餅として食べる大切な食べ物です。
You should do what a Americans, British Australian. Canadian had at a Japanese internment camps in Japan. See what they to eat distract the from the reality of the situation.
Sir, thank you for sharing this video.
I grew up on white rice with preseved fruits for desert.🥰
George Tacky is an America hating, straight white male hating, freedom hating, Narcissist that only spoke to you because he was praying for any cultural relevance and personal promotion. Isn't he on the "Diddy-list"? I got 49 seconds in before I was waylaid by nausea. The only meat he eats is raw "hot dogs". Without chewing.🤢🤮
You know what's crazy? When you hear "Rice with –" it doesn't matter what comes next. PLAIN rice is the staple. Rice, water, heat, eat. That anything was added to it means someone was TRYING to make something good for these wronged people. Trying and FAILING, as I'm sure they would have preferred the plain rice. And the more variations of what comes next just shows you that they tried harder and harder. SOMEONE involved had a conscience. Maybe not a lot of brains, though.
"WHY DON'T THEY LIKE ANYTHING I MAKE?"
"Sir… Have you ASKED them?"
"These aren't Japanese ingredients!"
"Sir… They're Americans."
Surprised even the Allies locked up people they had contempt for. Reminds me of stories of my German ancestors who were given nasty looks and name calls back in WW2. 😅
Honestly I have a question. Why don't we call them concentration camps? We call them that when Trump did something similar with undocumented immigrants.
Thank you for reminding us about this sad chapter of American history.
What a dark spot in our nations history
I remember reading about these camps in the book "Farewell to Manzanar"
And the narrator spoke about how the people running the camp had no basic understanding of Japanese cuisine, and that's why they were given things like rice with canned fruit for desert. I tried rice with peaches, as was mentioned in the book. It was definitely unpleasant. That's ok you didn't like the rice and apricots — because they didn't like it either lol.
A piece of this history that is always left out is there were in fact some American Japanese that were involved in espionage and were caught and convicted.
I guess this situation is why the democrats today are so unwilling to admit that there is a portion of the US Islamic population that are not friendly to the US and are in truth here to forcefully spread Islam just like the Koran says to do. Remember FDR was a democrat and was implementing many socialist style programs in an attempt to help with the Great Depression.
Please make Weenie Royale – that sounds really good!
My pregnant oma and her 8 yo son were put into a Japanese interment camp in Indonesia with other Australian and Dutch women. The infant was still born and she had to dig his grave. My uncle Piet tells stories about putting boards next to the jungle to catch lizards to eat. I'm sure they would have gladly traded their lizard nasi goring for a hot dog.
mango and rice is a common dish in the east. i love it.
Sad thing is that it has already repeated.. just a different Asian race.. Trump called CHINESE academia spies.. concentration camps are in the near horizon for Chinese people in America.. go figure.. all that talk about freedom is a joke..
Thank you so much for posting this. Appreciate all your hard work.
Potatoes are also seen as the food of the poor in oriental society
Another example of the white man being horrible. At least another white man is making these recipes so in the end it all equals out.
Better treatment than the Chinese/Koreans got from Japan 😅
My paternal grandparents met when my grandfather was stationed in Osaka during WW2, and my dad was born there as well, and I currently live not too far from Tulelake, so I was interested to see this episode, but at the same time kinda nervous about it.
A handful of years ago i had the honor of visiting the Los Angeles Japanese American Museum. I recall seeing a wooden structure inside the museum that was on exhibition. It was a reconstruction of a corner of building used to house the citizens being held in the camp. The framing and the walls were minimal with gaps between planks of rough hewn lumber. Tar paper was applied to the exterior to minimize breeze's flowing through the wall. You could feel a chill in the air, but the air in the museum was still, as though no air conditioning could be identified as a source of the chill.
My wife's grandfather Kenjiro met his wife Yoshiko in one of these places. Kenjiro was American born and serving in the United States army. He was imprisoned for a couple years when he and twenty other Nisei refuse to muster up. He and the others became known as the D-barracks Boys because of the time they spent in the disciplinary barracks. You have to understand that they were told to sign a form pledging allegiance to combat the enemy both foreign or domestic. They refused to sign and they refused to muster. It took a very long time for the U.S. military to admit it's mistake.
One of the camps became the back field of Gonzalez elementary school in Santa Fe. They had two camps. We could still see the foundations in the 80s.
I grew up in California, so have heard a lot of stories.
There are way too many of "there was nothing there when we got back" stories. Locally we do have stories of a local real estate company who took over people's houses/apartments, rented them out profitably during the local housing shortage (many many workers migrated here), and … when the internees returned, handed them their keys back.
Sadly, one thing about history is that it frequently repeats itself or at least rhymes. The next time when something like this happens, it might not the Japanese, but it will be with other ethnic minorities. People always have a way of scapegoating their real problems and issues onto someone else as the root cause. This is almost something you count on time and time again.
A little know story that I heard from my family was that the first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt visited the camps. She noticed the pickled vegetables, which were a delicacy of Japanese/ Japanese Americans, and she was almost horrified to see that people were forced to eat these smelly foods. But of course, it was a delicacy.
i knew a woman who was sent to the camps when she was 17. her family basically abandoned their apartment in boyle heights. her mom was later diagnosed with cancer. her mom had to be sent back to LA county (alone) for treatment. when it became clear her mom was not going to make it, the family were given travel passes to visit her mom before she passed away…