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HH: This brings us to the end of my series of questions, but this is something that you have a chance to say something here. We don't know who's going to be watching or viewing these tapes one day, and is there anything that you would like to say to future researchers or other people who will be, for whatever reason, looking at these tapes?

HT: Well, one thing that I noticed, even when I was in high school, in terms of how most Niseis reacted in school, I'm sure you have experienced this yourself where, in high school, I recall most of my Nisei friends used to congregate together and eat lunch together. Whereas I made it a point to eat lunch with my hakujin friends, and I couldn't understand why my other Japanese Nisei friends didn't do the same. It wasn't that I was purposely avoiding them, no end, because we always went to Japanese school together right after the regular school. But most Niseis seemed to me quite cliquish. And this may not be true with Sanseis, but I felt that when I was growing up, most Niseis were sort of laid back, and a good many of them did not assert themselves. And I myself liked to assert myself when I needed to assert myself. Otherwise, people would walk all over you. And that was one thing that I still recalled during my childhood, that most Niseis were too passive and did not assert themselves, I didn't think, when they needed to. So that's one thing that I do recall. But today, maybe the Sanseis are a little different, and a good many of them, I know, are quite outspoken and quite different from the Niseis as a whole.

HH: Thank you very much. Thank you, your story is different from a lot of the other ones we've had today.

HT: Probably a little different My story may be a little different inasmuch as I did not go to camp.

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