What are the effects of racism/discrimination?

In “What Do You Remember of the Evacuation?” by Joy Kogawa, the author recounts her experience of being exiled of the community. She is “abandoning everything, leaving pets and possessions at gunpoint”(line 12), to be forced to live with other Japanese people. The community is scared of Japanese people after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The Japanese people are shunned out of the community, even though the Japanese people of North America are mostly sided with England during the war. Only two women, who are assumed to be author’s teachers, are caring and sympathetic towards her. Everyone else is hostile towards her, because she is a Japanese person. At the end of the poem, the author expresses her shame of being a Japanese person, due to the discrimination, and a desire “that I might be white”(line 39). When there is discrimination against a certain race(the Japanese), it could result in segregation out of the community, shame, and insecurity(like how the author feels insecure for being Japanese). With racism and discrimination, people may lose their possessions and even their pride.