In what ways were japanese americans treated differently than German americans and Italian Americans?
The main way they were treated differently was that the Japanese Americans ceased to be Americans while the others remained so. In the eyes of both the overall population and the government entrusted in protecting these fellow American citizens rights, the Japanese people, culture, language, and traditions were considered a foreign untrustworthy element. America was still a very racially divided nation and one cannot ignore that everything equal, the Atomic bomb would not have been dropped on a European white population under the same circumstances as it was with Japan. This should be of no surprise however as one must remember that colored Americans GI's who worked the supply lines in the Army were not allowed in a movie theatre with white American GI's and German NAZI prisoners of war! Needless to say, these Japanese Americans rights were taken away from them at the most crucial moment when they needed them most by the very Govt entrusted to protect those rights.
Why was japanese american internment wrong?
I have provided two excellent resources below. All I can add to that is the motivation behind the seizure and imprisonment of loyal Americans was fear, ignorance and racism. This also happened to Japanese Canadiens. Ironically, it was the imprisonment of Japanese American farmers in the Central Valley which brought the laborers north from Mexico. I say ironic because the same type of individuals who dislike Mexican migrant workers and want them removed, (would have welcomed) the forced removal of Japanese-American farmers to the concentration camps. Oh yeah, internment camps.
What happened to Japanese-Americans at world war II?
My own experience (American) when I lived in Berkeley after the war, was that my neighbors were of Japanese decent, and they all in the Bay Area were arrested (with no cause, other than birthright) and imprisoned in Nevada for a number of years! Their property was confiscated--stolen, and they had to live in that desolate dry, dusty land! They were shipped there and guarded by US soldiers! They had to build their own barracks and to work. I don't remember how many years this went on--until the end of the war, certainly, and there had NEVER BEEN ONE INSTANCE OF SABOTAGE! The whole thing was a land-grab, where Caucasian Americans stole their homes and property! When they were released, they returned and strangers were living in their homes! They finally rec'd some small compensation, but nothing compared to what had been stolen from them! I think that some General was behind all of this, but can't remember. There were similar camps in Colorado and other States--all in arid wasteland. A SHAMEFUL EPISODE IN AMERICAN HISTORY.--OH YES! The young men enlisted in the US Army and served in one unit in Europe with distinction!
What are the pros and cons of Japanese Internment Camps in America?
in World War II. I am writing a persuasive essay to persuade previous president Franklin D. Roosevelt to cancel Executive Order 9066, and I want to know the pros and cons of Japanese Internment camps Thank you!
Was the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII justified? Why or Why not?
Your moral compass is so far off it's unbelievable. It's a shame America is full of people who blindly believe everything they do is right because it was them that did it. I guess dropping the A-bomb on the civilians of Hiroshima was justified too right? I mean it must have "saved" so many people... Where did your family come from by the way? If America goes to war with Ireland, should they lock up all the Irish? Or is that different because Irish are white, making them more American? I love the contradiction of America supposedly fighting for freedom and equality while simultaneously imprisoning it's own citizens without trial based on skin colour. EDIT: No I don't think the "Jap" women and children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have ever invaded mainland America. I think they would have been in their homes or at school. Like they were when they evaporated.
How were Japanese Americans treated in the USA during World War II?
During WW2, Japanese-Americans were treated with constant suspicion. The government and populace were convinced that they all still held some latent loyalty to the Emperor, so each and every person of Japanese descent, even if they were only part-Japanese, was assumed to be a threat to national security.This paranoia culminated after Pearl Harbor, when basically the entire Japanese-American population of the western US was relocated to “internment camps”. They had to leave behind their homes, their jobs, most of their belongings, and their friends. The conditions in these camps varied depending on which government entity was in charge of them, but generally sucked. The buildings were hastily thrown together, and didn’t provide nearly enough space for families. They were located in deserts and other hot, barren places, in a time before air conditioning. Disease was a serious concern due to overcrowding. A token effort was made to provide educational facilities for the children, and there were activities like sports and gardening for the adults, but life in the camps was extremely tedious.There were only two ways out. If you were a college student, you could transfer to a school in the eastern part of the country, away from the “exclusion zones”. If you were a second-generation male, and determined to be sufficiently “Americanized” by the government’s standards, you could get into one of the Army’s Japanese-American divisions. Of course, they couldn’t be deployed in the Pacific, so they were sent to Europe instead. These men served with great distinction, motivated by a desire to prove their worth and loyalty to their country.So basically, it was not fun to be a Japanese-American during the war. But as they say, shikata ga nai. They just lived with it until they were finally let out of the camps in 1945. Eventually, in 1988, the government owned up and paid reparations to the surviving former detainees. But it’s still an ugly scar on our history.
What are the arguments for and against the Japanese-American relocation camps used in WWII?
I need to write an essay on this but I have completely no idea what to write about so if you guys could help me out a bit and give me some ideas please? thank you C: here's the full question What are the arguments for and against the Japanese-American relocation camps used in WWII? Do you agree with the text authors that these camps were “unnecessary and unfair”? Why or why not?
Was the internment of Japanese-Canadians by the government understandable?
I was at a talk by David Suzuki a few weeks ago where he talked about his childhood. He was born in the Vancouver area. His parents were also born there. His grandparents were from Japan. His parents spoke English to him, he never learned Japanese. His family was clearly no threat to Canada, they ran a dry cleaning business and were loyal to Canada, where they were born and raised.The Suzuki family was split up, the father going to one camp, the rest of the family was sent to another.It is important to note that not only did the Canadian Government move the Japanese Canadians to the interior, they also sold their houses, businesses and fishing boats.And what makes it even more despicable is that after the war the interned Japanese Canadians were given two options; go back to Japan with a one way ticket, or move east of BC.Nothing like that happened to immigrants from Italy or Germany. There were many recent German and Italian immigrants in Toronto, close to major war industries like plane manufacturing, gun factories and the factories that made engines for Canadian warships. So there was risk there, but no action to inter even the most recent immigrants. They were put under surveillance and questioned but not interned en masse.So it is difficult to come to any other conclusion than this was about race, not the actual danger. You can also see these themes in WWII propaganda where Germans are depicted as evil, but Japanese are depicted as less human.So no, it wasn’t understandable to put everyone of Japanese heritage in camps. It wasn’t understandable to steal their property. It wasn’t understandable to banish them from the province where they had grown up and lived peacefully. It was in my opinion racist and hopefully we have learned lessons from this awful chapter in Canada’s history.