In chapter 5 of Impossible Subjects, the author discussed how Japanese Americans were treated during the second world war. One interesting element during that era, is that, according to the author, “The government’s wartime policy toward Japanese Americans diverged sharply from its views and treatment of persons of German and Italian descent.” This discrimination was explained by Earl Warren as a result of the fact that people in the United States know how to deal with the Caucasian race. While this definitely holds true, there are other possible reasons, which reflect a level of intersectionality between race, war, and nationalism/patriotism. At the time of the war, America was still a rather “white” country, meaning that the power and wealth of and control over the nation were predominantly within the hands of white people; and among them, a large number are of German descent. As a result, German people in the United States, while their home country were being controlled by Nazism and was the criminal of war, were first seen as white people who are likely to be peace-loving and “civilized” just like ordinary American citizens; it is after this first filter that classifies German people as closer to the American people that suspicions arise at the base of national interest in war and patriotism. For the Japanese population, however, the primary view from most of the people in the United States at the war was that they were aliens in this country, since the majority of the population are of no Japanese or Asian descent and that Japanese people inherently look different to the ordinary citizen of the United States. This case reflects a typical type of intersectionality between race and national interest in that people who are of similar descents as people from the United States, even though their home country was a warmonger, were treated with friendliness before suspicion and hostility, whereas inherently Alien population were subjected not only to direct suspicions but also unfair treatment, discrimination, and abridgement of rights. One might argue that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor caused this disparity of treatment; but again, this might still be another case if it was committed by German sabotage or surprise attack, which in turn further shows this intersectionality between race and war time interest and patriotism.