Impact+on+Japanese+Culture

During the internment kids lived normal lives. The kids really were not impacted since they did not know how to speak Japanese or know much about their culture. Some boys were in the boy scouts. Some girls were in dances, competitions or civil associations.
 * [[image:closeout.jpg align="right" caption="getting ready to leave the camp"]]Impact on kids during internment**

Jeanne was confused, she did not know whether she should acknowledge her Japanese ancestry or just keep living like an American like she has all along. She tried to enter some classes of Geisha or Odori to see if she could fit in with it, but she couldn't.
 * Impact during internement in Manzanar**

Even though the kids were not impacted much the adults were. They knew more of their ancestry and their culture. Woman complained about the food because the person cooking did not know how to cook. After a while they got a cook that cooked traditional Japanese food but they mixed the traditional Japanese food with desserts and their rice. It was a mess.
 * Impact on adults during internment**

In Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne was stunned after the internment. She also became aware of her ancestry since everybody pointed it out to her. She even had to choose her friends carefully. She said if they invited her in their house they were friends but if they didn't they were not her friends. It was not that Jeanne did not like them it was that their parents would not accept their friendship.
 * Impact on kids after release from Manzanar**

Sources wakatsuki, Jeanne. __Farewell To Manzanar__. New York: Del Laurel-Leaf, 1973. "Life in Camp." 1994. Museum of America History. 13 Dec 2007 <[|http://americanhistory.si.edu>.]