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Part A: which of the following identifies George takei's main claim in the text ?

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A. While America’s democracy is imperfect, the ideals that the country represents encourage citizens to continue fighting for it.

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In the TED Talk given by George Takei "Why I Love the Country That Once Betrayed Me", he recounts how his childhood life in Los Angeles shaped his memories but also helped him understand his country too. He expressed his appreciation for what his nation had done, even if it also made his and his family's life hard during the war.

He recounts how being a descendant of a migrant Japanese, his family were also part of the Japanese Americans rounded up to a "barbed-wire prison camp". And when the young Japanese people offered their services to help in the war, they were denied and even labeled as "enemy non-alien". But this betrayal did not stay long, for soon they were drafted to help fight the war. The Japanese people, on their part, felt that "they cherished the very ideal of what our government stands for and should stand for, and that was being abrogated by what was being done." Takei seems to imply that even when the democracy of his country is imperfect, it's ideals it represents still encourages the people to keep fighting for the nation they call and regard home.

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