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(Another story I saw on AAM!) Interesting profile of Linkin Park frontman Mike Shinoda from The Mercury News. He’s working on an album called “The Rising Tied” which includes a song that pays homage to his family’s painful history:

Shinoda’s father, Leslie Shinoda, is a second-generation Japanese-American and was about 3 years old when his family was forced from their home in Los Angeles into an internment camp in Poston, Ariz. Excerpts from interviews with his father and aunt are incorporated in “Kenji.”…

Shinoda explains that Japanese-Americans of that time had an attitude known as shikataganai, which means “it can’t be helped.” Many, he says, believed it was helpful back then because it kept them focused on the future — not dwelling on the past.

“The problem for my generation,” he says, “is that the older generation tends to stick to that and they don’t like to talk about what happened — and that deprives us of the story.”