The Hiroshima Club

[super_jayhawk]

I've been meaning to post this for several years now, but I keep getting busy or don't have the words to write about it. But this time I need to, for it presages a number of other things that I need to talk about. So here we go

Comments

Thanks ;)

[super_jayhawk]

*hugs* and thanks for your reply, I didn't know how people would receive such a heavy message. August has become the month of Heavy Shit, starting with Hiroshima, and I look to my friends for their understanding and help

[mito_dafox]

*hugs*

I didn't know how hard it was to be born Asian in the US. When I was a kid, I used to be really envious and fantasized about being born as a US citizen and get to do all the awesome crazy stuff kids do on TV shows. I was unhappy with where I am. XD

The world changes except for the Chinese and Koreans. :3 Old hatred from the WW2 atrocities is hard to let go of. It's something I have mixed feelings on and often avoided.

[ysengrin]

*hugs* Thank you for sharing, and giving a lot to think on.

[bucktowntiger]

*hugs you tight...* thank you for sharing this story with us...

[ravan]

Thank you for writing this. Added to memories, because the stories of our elders should not be forgotten.

When I was in junior high here in California, I got called "Nazi" because I had a German last name - in the 1970s, by kids whose parents were probably not even school-aged in WWII. My family has been in the US for several generations, and is typical US mutts.

In the midwest, the discrimination is much, much, more against "non-whites".

Hate is carefully taught, apparently.