arise in George Takei’s op-ed “Internment‚ America’s Great Mistake”. Actor George Takei shows the reader how he can relate to the prejudice American Muslims face in the United State’s current social climate. Takei was relocated to an internment camp when he was only seven simply because he looked like the enemy. By showing similarities in the historical reality and his own experience in Japanese internment camps‚ Takei is able to relate to the current prejudice American Muslims face. Both eras of fear
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Keith Salenski Jen Stauss History 201 May 31‚ 2005 Japanese Internment Camps in WWII For over a century‚ the United States has been one of the most powerful and influential states on the globe. However‚ every nation has made mistakes in its past. Throughout our country’s history‚ certain groups have had to endure horrible injustices: the enslavement of African-Americans‚ the removal of Native Americans‚ and discrimination against immigrants‚ women‚ homosexuals‚ and every other minority.
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After the December 7 1941‚ Japanese attack on the American naval fleet at Pearl Harbor‚ Hawaii‚ the United States was thrust into World War II -1939-45‚ and everyday life across the country was dramatically altered. Gas and clothing were rationed. Communities conducted scrap metal drives. To help build the armaments necessary to win the war‚ women found employment as electricians‚ welders and riveters in defense plants. Japanese Americans had their rights as citizens stripped from them. People in
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In her report “Japanese American Internment During WWII”‚ Heather Steven explains how “those in the camps showed their loyalty to the United Sates by assisting in the war effort” (2). While in the camps Japanese Americans were assigned to making uniforms and parachutes for the troops. Others grew and canned food that was also sent to the troops (Steven).Overtime interned citizens were released from these internment camps‚ provided that they did not return to the West Coast (Robinson). Before entering
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Japanese immigrants first came to the Pacific Northwest in the 1880s‚ when federal legislation that excluded further Chinese immigration created demands for new immigrant labor. Railroads in particular recruited Issei. Before the War the Japanese were able to get mainly manual labor jobs such as this‚ no matter what their educational status was. This discrimination only increased during the war. Initially the U.S was unwilling to enter the war (and who could blame them after the disasters of the
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Japanese proverb‚ “Deru kui wa utareru” literally means “The stake that sticks up gets hammered down”. In other words‚ you should not stand out within the community in Japan. This proverb seems to imply Japanese collectivist society which is very different from Western countries’ more individualistic society. Japan has its own unique cultural history. Japan is an island nation and had been chosen to isolate themselves‚ even going so far as to shut their borders for any international trade and communication
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promised equality‚ some groups of people such as women‚ African-Americans‚ and Japanese-Americans have been
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Throughout American history‚ racism has been widely accepted based on reasons that the white majority deemed as justifiable. Racism was justified during World War II when the Japanese people‚ including Japanese American citizens‚ were degraded and poorly treated in based on the idea that anyone of Japanese decent could be a spy or harm the United States. Black racism had been prominent for years‚ and even after the slaves were emancipated‚ Jim Crow laws in the South continued to reflect the racist
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such as our ethnicity‚ intellect‚ or looks to try to find how we are better than some. Hitler did this to the Jews as he wanted the world to have the Aryan race with the Holocaust‚ and America did this to the Japanese during the Japanese internment. The Holocaust and the Japanese internment are very different from one another yet they are both very similar to each other. The Holocaust was the systematic mass slaughter of Jews and other groups deemed inferior by the Nazis. The Holocaust began
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I picked “Farming the Home Place” at the beginning of this semester is because a particular Japanese American Community story seems more interesting to me than a general immigrants and American Society book. Valerie J. Matsumoto is the author of the book‚ she is a PhD graduated from Stanford and she is a professor in UCLA‚ department of history. “Farming the Home Place” is one of her books about the ethnic community studies. Matsumoto’s books more focus on the study of small rural ethnic communities
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