How Did The Bureaucracy Affect The United States

Governing a country with complete civil obedience and compliance has proven to be very difficult by numerous governments throughout history. To establish control, governments often become bureaucracies, believing this will allow for an easier domination of its people. Countries with lesser amounts of bureaucratic control that practice capitalism, for example, tend to have more civil cooperation than totalitarian and communist countries with enhanced bureaucratic control. During times of war, governments frequently implement extreme bureaucratic measures that affect the disempowered and minority populations the most. The U.S. government exhibited some of this extreme bureaucracy during World War II after the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Fueled by the attack and the fear that Japanese Americans were a threat to national security, Franklin D. Roosevelt released the Executive Order 9066, incarcerating 120,000
This authoritative decision ultimately led to numerous negative short and long term effects on the Japanese Americans. Internment Camp conditions were harmful, as was life for these citizens after their incarceration. Generations later, Japanese American lives were still influenced by this Executive Order. Bureaucratic control, especially during times of war, is detrimental to the disempowered population. The Executive Order forced Japanese Americans to evacuate their homes and businesses and enter damaging concentration camps. These citizens were negatively affected both psychologically and physically. As the Issei (first generation of immigrants) and the american-born Nisei (second generation) were interned, their status was changed into that of enemy aliens. This caused them to experience a low sense of self worth, as they began to believe they were in fact as barbaric as the majority of Americans accused them of being. The american-born