Hearing Mr. Doi recount his life in terms of Japanese internment was a really different experience. Normally, when you hear about Japanese internment, it is a hard debate regarding the morals of the event. However, when Mr. Doi recounted it, it wasn't just about the internment. It was first about his life as a Japanese, and then the internment was a point in his life, not his whole life. This I found unique about his perspective. As a child, his life really wasn't affected much by race, which makes a bigger point later on that society is weak and people are followers. The older he got, natural progression took its course and groups began to form in the younger community. The way Mr. Doi put it, racial segregation was inevitable, even without the war in the Pacific. Finally, Pearl Harbor took place and the segregation sped up and increased to a point of Japanese internment. While Mr. Doi didn't give extensive details into the camps, I was interested to find out that families were split among the camps, but not by force. It was by their opinion of the survey, if they would fight for their captors and if they would completely forgo loyalty to their culture. This clearly shows how various the perspectives and opinions of the internees were. Following internment, I feel that one of the greatest impacts the internment was the lasting relationships formed with fellow internees, companions with which he could try to survive the extreme racism following World War II. And following the war, he then had comrades to reminisce with, people who understood his feelings. The ease with which Mr. Doi retold his story represents further his maturity and composure through such an intense and scary situation.