The final exhibition for the American Literature and U.S. History course offers insights of how it is to be an American and a nation by connecting our past through researching a cultural group.  The ethnicity we are doing is the Japanese Americans.  Through our researches on the family, religion, education, economic, politics, and arts of the Japanese Americans, we learned how many of their cultural behaviors affect us today as a people and nation, and also how much it had changed from their homelands.  As Americans, we have more freedom and rights, and this is what sets us apart from other nations.  However, events such as worshipping ancestors and festivals like the celebrations of girls’ day and boys’ day and much more are still seen in the American culture.  These are some of the things that Japanese Americans do that show who we are as an American and as a nation.