Her step-mother had to work, something she had not experienced in Japan. With little job experience or skills her step-mother went to work as a temporary secretary agent. Tabak has never truly adopted to life in the United States. She deems the United States does not have the supportive community like the one she lived in in japan. Schools were based on being cooperative not competitive, as she expressed in the interview. As a Japanese American she did not have a hard time with language barriers, except for some small pronunciation of words, especially when she is upset or excited, and often twists her “l” and “r”. Although her Japanese family describes her as American, she misses Japan and would love to return
Her step-mother had to work, something she had not experienced in Japan. With little job experience or skills her step-mother went to work as a temporary secretary agent. Tabak has never truly adopted to life in the United States. She deems the United States does not have the supportive community like the one she lived in in japan. Schools were based on being cooperative not competitive, as she expressed in the interview. As a Japanese American she did not have a hard time with language barriers, except for some small pronunciation of words, especially when she is upset or excited, and often twists her “l” and “r”. Although her Japanese family describes her as American, she misses Japan and would love to return