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prejudice can be defined as the judgement inflicted toward an individual or on a group because it or they appear to be different in social status, nationality, and all other superficialities which pertain to the individual or group. However, prejudice comes from both within and with out. Such acts appear within the novel, Obasan by Jow Kogawa. In Obasan, the main character, Naomi Nakane, journeys through a path of old, forgotten memories which she remembers as the times of discrimination which she and her family experienced together. Through the past experiences of Naomi, Kogawa demonstrates that prejudice comes from north
within the individual and with out by the society.
A memory that Naomi recalls is one of herself and her brother, Stephen, walking to school when a boy shouts to them, "Fight, Jap. Fight!" (p.182), and later, "C'mon, ya gimpy Jap!" (p. 182), as he jabbed Stephen on the shoulder. The term "Jap" used here is meant to degrade the Japanese race. This word was......

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