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          of being welcomed home by Americans as heroes, many of the soldiers
          met continued hostility: their homes and property were vandalized and
          burned down, they were denied services in shops and restaurants, and
          signs like “No Japs Allowed” were posted. Therefore, though
          they received medals and were honored for their actions by the government,
          the Japanese Americans were still considered by some Americans as outsiders
          and members of an inferior race that should be excluded from the country. It is a shame that not even one of the noblest and self-sacrificing
          acts on the part of the Japanese Americans for these American people
          was enough to merit their acceptance. This really made me understand
          how fiercely some Americans hated the Japanese Americans and how strongly
          they opposed the assimilation of the Japanese into American culture. As Ronald Takaki says inStrangers from a Different Shore,
          it seemed that the Japanese Americans would always be viewed by some
          as “strangers,” no
          matter how just their cause and how loyal to the country they proved
          to be. But I was encouraged by the American people who came to these soldiers’ aid
          in opposition to the hostilities. Comrades who had served with these
          Japanese Americans in the war as well as other open-minded Americans
          came to the Japanese Americans’ side. This shows that the Japanese
          Americans did succeed in changing some people’s views about them
          through the bravery they showed in the war. The significance of their
          actions became even more apparent during the next ten years, when discrimination
          against the Japanese Americans gradually subsided.