Examples Of Racism Against Asians

Racism against Asians wasn’t new in the US, it was actual very common. Laws were established to prevent Asian immigration and citizenship. During World War II an attack occurred at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese; this event had brought the US into the war. After this attack US citizens became paranoid of possible danger and assumed that Japanese people in the US would side with Japan in the war by act as spies. This hysteria even caused the military to panic which lead to President Roosevelt’s order of creating designated areas for “any or all persons may be excluded.” This gave the Secretary of Defense the power to send anyone who posed as a threat, especially Japanese, to those areas. As Americans, we created prejudices (intended for the Japanese) about Asians to protect ourselves, we forced them (even if they were citizens) out of
Fear is known to cause people to think irrationally because snap judgements are used in scenarios of fear. It’s like a person gets into a fight, they either run, fight, or defend themselves, but it is done very quickly. People tend to make judgements that help themselves, but may also harm others. The fear and paranoia caused Americans to make a prejudicial about Japanese being traitor. Since there was still a lot of racism in American Asians were also sent to camps for not being able to tell the difference between races. Even some of the the Japanese people in those camps lived in America their whole lives and couldn’t speak Japanese. Some business were able to stay when signs were put saying “ I am an American.” Even before being forced into the camps Japanese and Asian people had to deal with the Americans attitudes and signs. These things restricted their access to public places. People that had nothing to do with the Japan’s conquest were forced into those poor quality