When she's transported back to modern times, after living in the internment camp for a year, she's more aware of the prejudices so prevalent in today's society, recognizing that history is on the brink of being repeated. She isn't in touch with her Japanese culture, and hasn't learned much about this event in school either, considering that a lot of the information has only been declassified recently. Kiku is taken back in time, living through her grandmother's memories of the American Internment camps. I've never made a conscious effort to really learn about this event, the way I have with other events (especially in this period of time), and it's imperative that this cycle be changed. And while I blame the education system here as always, I blame myself, too. While I know that it happened, I don't know to what degree, or what actually happened. As someone who lives in America, I'm embarrassed to say that this is one of those topics that I don't know all that much about.
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