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Are humans capable of making promises?<\/li>\n<li>Was it the responsibility of the neighbors to stay in one place until the family returned?<\/li>\n<li>Can you identify an enemy of the nation based on a person&#8217;s ethnicity?<\/li>\n<li>What does it mean to be patriotic? To be a friend?<\/li>\n<li>Is it okay to lie to your enemy?<\/li>\n<li>What role do intentions play in the ethics of helping or not helping others?<\/li>\n<li>What does it mean to be American?<\/li>\n<li>What does it mean to be Japanese American, African American, Caucasian American?<\/li>\n<li>What does an American look like?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Contributed by Gobe Hirata<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12219,"template":"","dqcategories":[373,378],"class_list":["post-1849","questionslibrary","type-questionslibrary","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","dqcategories-ethics","dqcategories-social-and-political-philosophy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Flowers from Mariko - PLATO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Flowers from Mariko - PLATO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Why was internment seen as a solution to the &#8220;problem&#8221; of Japanese in America? 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