Many insights about teaching global education can be gained from the exploration of the Japanese American experience. However, we must start with a firm understanding of this group’s legacy and contribution to American history.

What is culture? As teachers and students explore and examine the story of Japanese Americans in a pluralistic America, they should be able to identify the traditions, customs and values brought by these immigrants.

During WWII the US Government forcibly removed over 120,000 Japanese Americans from the Pacific Coast. These individuals, two-thirds of them US citizens...

March 26, 1790 The US Congress, through the act of 1790, decrees that "any alien, being a free white person who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for a term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof."

What does living in a multicultural society mean? What lessons does history teach us about the way diverse groups have lived, worked and played together? What kind of a society will our children create? These lessons ask students to think about the concept of multiculturalism by examining the experiences of ethnic groups.

American society is pluralistic, whether we like it or not. We often find ourselves “clanning” with those like us, with a resulting society of ethnicities living uneasily, side by side in separate and often unequal communities.

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