Word: shyoganai
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They survived these camps better than could be expected. Those of the older generation perhaps repeated to themselves the Japanese expression shyoganai--that one should make the best of an impossible situation...
Many other incidents of racial prejudice and harrassment go unreported. Perhaps victims have faith that things will eventually get better--the attitude expressed in shyoganai. This way of thinking did allow many Japanese Americans to assuage their anguish when discrimination took the form of barbed wire and loyalty tests...
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