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Show OHI Shake Ushio 10/30/87 SF Did you do like you were on your school team and .. SU Yes. Some of the better players were able to do that. It wasn't limited just to the Japanese community but this would enable those with less skill and everyone on our group to participate in something. Now those who had natural abilities would play on high school teams, and some of them on college teams and recreational team down in the valley and so it wasn't a restricted thing but it was something extra and was good ~ for us. SF What about your early involment in the community around here? Could you describe that to me? SU Well, early involment is mainly to school activities, and church activities, played in church teams and in the Boy Scouts and whatever the 6hurch had, and we were involved in that and whatever school activities were, we were involved in that, but other than that in the erly days, there wasn't too much we would get into. SF In the school? SU No, I mean in the community, besides school and maybe church activitieswe wouldn't be involved in too much; there weren't that many things to do at that age. It is teenage - that period. 3 SF Were you involved in the Japanese community affairs, whatever they had or werE you more involved in school and church activities? SU Oh, about 50 - 50, I guess. SF Okay, did you find a difference in them in the way people acted? su Well, not • well, there is a basic difference because in one case you are here with the group that's strictly of your ethnic group, and the other one is the larger community which is mixed up with everyone, all kinds of people. Of course, if you are in your church activities, there you are with your own religious big family. So naturally, there's a limit and difference. |
