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RP: So you mentioned, you felt a lot less prejudice in New York.

DK: Uh-huh.

RP: Can you, maybe offer me a few thoughts about why?

DK: Well, you were just, just another person. People don't --

Off Camera: Yeah, New York has such a polyglot population anyway that, we didn't stand out.

DK: Yeah, they didn't seem to realize that...

RP: There's so many people, too.

DK: Yeah.

Off Camera: That's right, uh-huh.

RP: How did your academic, academics work in, in high school? Did you get a little more interested in school? Were you involved in any clubs or activities?

DK: No, not really. Not... I just went to school every day.

RP: Uh-huh.

DK: And...

RP: How about your, what was your feeling about your ethnicity, too? Were you feeling a little more comfortable with that or was it still kind of strange given your upbringing?

DK: Yeah. You mean in New York?

RP: In New York.

DK: Yeah. I did feel different. I did feel different after. Even with, with the Japanese American people that I was in contact with, I felt different. Because, maybe I, they would use some Japanese phrases that I wasn't familiar with and I, they would be laughing and I wouldn't know what they were laughing about. Things like that. But, otherwise, it wasn't that, it wasn't that bad for me.

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