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Mrs. B. G. Miller, a member of the Hollywood Protective Association, points to an anti-Japanese sign reading ‘removed Keep Moving - This is a White Man’s Neighborhood’, on her house on Tamarind Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, May 1923. Other houses in the street have similar signs and are a response to Japanese Americans buying a property on the street in order to build a Japanese Presbyterian Church.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    I have family living there and my grandma was born during the war, so no hate from her but she never ever figured out how to pronounce Japan. She emphasizes the first syllable so it sounds like the slur and then -pan. If she says Japanese she pronounces the firsr syllable normal. Its weird