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Play Day Nancy Oda Analysis
The oral history by Nancy Oda, a Japanese American woman who grew up in the East Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Height and residing is a diverse community that living alongside Jewish and Hispanic Americans. She described the story how her father who was born in Montebello and then the family move back to Japan. Then come back to the United States from Japan to open a market and a school.
To adapt the mainstream US culture, her father was a team member to create events in community picnic call “play day” for people who has no families in the American get together in Boyle Heights. Her father was not belonged to any religion so he exposed her to a lot of religions. They had opportunities to eat many kinds of food of the panic day. During

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