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Transcription: [00:22:24]

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Like this! No, no. So, my husband can't stand it. "Just say what you want! Say what you want to do." And I can't, I find myself unable to do that.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
And I'm trying to explain to him this is part of my culture. And he doesn't really understand that. So, that's when I feel very Japanese and, Japanese-American.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Can I add something?
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Uh, I wanna make a point that I think most of us here are more Japanese than the people in Japan.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
The kids in Japan they're learning to play the piano, the violin, and ballet. And here we have young people here learning to play the shamisen and other Japanese instruments.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
People in Japan, they don't know how to dress themselves like this, you know. So, they're in awe that we are more Japanese, that, than they are in Japan.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
They are becoming so westernized, and here, we are trying to maintain the culture. And yes, it's a sad thing.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
So, someone's gotta keep it up.
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{SPEAKER name="Host"}
Yeah, yeah. Wow, I'm I'm loving this conversation, and I love the ways in which, you know, the things that each of you raised goes right to the heart of the big questions for this part of the festival, "What is Home?".
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{SPEAKER name="Host"}
It's on the back board there, and that's what I'm pointing at. And what it comes down to is that when and where you feel at home, when and where you are able to feel safe and most fully yourself, most comprehensively yourself,
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{SPEAKER name="Host"}
you know, changes from moment to moment, from place to place, in fact. And I think it's important to acknowledge that we are not able, especially folks of color in the United States are not able, are not permitted or allowed to feel safe and most fully themselves in all spaces.
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{SPEAKER name="Host"}
Right? You know. I mean- Surely, this is self-evident at that point- at this point.
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{SPEAKER name="Host"}
I have to turn the conversation to the Japanese-American Internment - the E.O. 9066, passed in the early part of 1942.
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{SPEAKER name="Host"}
I expect, but I can't be sure, that all of you know that from 1942 to 1945, all Japanese-Americans and all Japanese, within a certain zone on the west coast, had their civil liberties violated,
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{SPEAKER name="Host"}
and between a hundred and ten and a hundred and twenty-five thousand Japanese and Japanese-Americans were put in concentration camps.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
I'd like to get you have the sense-
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I know, frankly I love the fact that the soundscape of the festival is as thick and dense, and often competing as it is, so bear with me on this.
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{SPEAKER name="Host"}
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Listen to both me and them. I think it is absolutely possible to listen to more than one thing at a time. And I think that, as people as we all are at this festival, living through difference, and recognizing difference, and being with people who are different from ourselves, that means being able to listen to more than one thing at a time, right? So, you all just did great.
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{SPEAKER name="Host"}
I want to talk about Internment. I want to ask each of our panelists here, if you don't mind. You know, no pressure if you don't want to talk about this, of course. Because these are painful histories, painful memories of- within the J.A. community.
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{SPEAKER name="Host"}
What is your family history with the Internment? And in what ways do you feel it continues to be part of your family history?
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Transcription Notes:
Had to fix up placement of timestamps to where the instructor on video shows to put them. Also added the untranscribed section at the bottom. ** E.O. 9066 -> Executive Order 9066