Question

Roy Ebihara and Aiko Ebihara seek to recover something that was taken from each of them when they and their families were removed from their homes and placed in detention camps in the early 1940s. What is it that they seek to recover today? How understandable is their desire? Why do you think so?

Answer 1

Answer:

They seek to regain pride in who they are. This desire is understandable, because their nationality and ethnicity made them go through very difficult situations, which could cause shame and hostility against their own ethnicity and culture.

Explanation:

Roy Ebihara and Aiko Ebihara are a Japanese couple who were forced to leave their homes as children and live in Japanese concentration camps in the USA.

The concentration camps for Japanese people were a bad environment of extreme misery and violence. The Japanese were moved there, just for who they are, for their culture and customs. This caused many Japanese to lose the pride of their ethnicity, wishing to be other people and often denying their own roots.

Now, years after this historic event, Roy Ebihara and Aiko Ebihara wish to recover that pride and this is totally justified, because our ethnicity defines our high self-esteem and our perception of ourselves.