Almost all Japanese Americans were punished and held accountable for the actions of a small group. Many of the camps didn’t provide the proper care for the families they were holding, when they could have remained home living their normal life. Lastly, many Japanese Americans were forced to accept racism as the ‘new norm’ which is inhumane.
How would you feel if one day you were told to leave your whole life behind to live in captivity just because people halfway across the world did something wrong? This horror story was all too true for the thousands of Japanese Americans alive during World War II. Almost overnight, thousands of proud Japanese Americans living on the west coast were forced to leave their homes and give up the life they knew. The United States government was not justified in the creation of Japanese internment camps because it stripped law-abiding American citizens of their rights out of unjustified fear.
In the second picture, there is also a panopticon overlooking the internment camps with a wired fence surrounding it with men on horses. This shows that the Japanese were being treated like prisoners because they were blocked off by a fence and had soldiers around them so they couldn't
I, personally, agree with those who say that the internment of Japanese-American citizens was unnecessary and immoral. It’s never okay to force citizens to abandon all their land, jobs, belongings (etc.) and make them live in an internment camp based solely on their racial background, religion, etc. It’s a violation of their civil liberties and first amendment rights. And above all stated in the previous sentence, the internment of Japanese-Americans in the 1940’s was just unethical and
For instance, Document 3 indicates “I can now understand how an eagle feels when his wings are clipped and caged. Beyond the bars of his prison lies the wide expanse of clouds, the wide, wide, fields of brush and woods--limitless space for the pursuit of Life itself”. During their imprisonment in the camps they felt as if they had no freedom, or a sense of home.comfortability was a challenge for many Japanese americans because their living conditions were inadequate especially since it was cramped, it had poor maintenance and other types of abuse. The Japanese Americans were kept in inhumane conditions in the imprisonment of the concentration camps In document 4 it also provides , “Many people had to live in the horse stables. These were places where the racehorses were kept.
World War 2 was a devastating time that has caused cruel actions such as prejudice towards minorities and self hate of their own citizens in the past. For example, the Pearl Harbor bombing had influenced numerous Japanese American citizens due to their appearances that showed them as enemies to American citizens. In addition, the act of the Japanese American Internment Camps was significantly unnecessary because this was an unjust law that was racist and hysteria, also, Japanese Americans are citizens of the U.S not from a foreign land at all, and lastly, Japanese Americans had served in World War 2 that extinguished many fatalities in the past. First of all, this act had displayed cruel racism and hysteria towards Japanese Americans. For this reason, it states in the web article “From Wrong to Right: A U.S Apology for Japanese Internment,” “John Tateishi says the experience was both humiliating and disorienting.
The internment of Japanese Americans during WWII was not justified. After Pearl Harbor, many Americans were scared of the Japanese Americans because they could sabotage the U.S. military. To try and solve the fear President Franklin D Roosevelt told the army in Executive order 9066 to relocate all Japanese Americans living on the West Coast. They were relocated to detention centers in the desert. Many of them were in the detention centers for three years.
The Japanese Internment camps were a product of discrimination. This is the same for the Concentration Camps in Europe. One would cause the deaths of millions of people. The other would cause the government to apologise to the people in the camps, and give 20,000 dollars in reparations. Executive Order 9066 was one of the reasons that Internment camps were out in place.
I think Japanese Internment Camps were not unfair and inappropriate, the camps made sure that America was safe and protected. My first reason is that if the government didn’t put the Japanese in the camps, we would have killed the Japanese thinking they were a threat. My second reason is there were some Japanese found guilty and was a threat to our country. My last reason was we gaved food, water and shelter for the families for free. Therefore, there wasn’t really anything inappropriate with the Internment Camps.
The Internment of Japanese Americans Was Not Justified December 7, 1941 was a turning point in American history; it was the day Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese. The following day, December 8, 1941, was the day the United States officially joined World War II. The United States took precautionary steps and ordered thousands of Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast to barbed wire-enclosed internment camps (Dudley 116). According to Frank Murphy, Michigan governor and U.S. attorney general, these actions were inhumane (Dudley 117). The Civilian Exclusion Order No. 34 violated constitutional rights, discriminated against race, and was deliberate in releasing Japanese Americans (Dudley 118).
Free the Japanese Cameron D.C. Mr.Washington US History March 27, 2016 First generation Japanese, also known as Issei, came to the U.S. to make and have a better life for their their second generation known as Nissei. But, when Pearl Harbor was attacked everything had changed for the Japanese Americans. They were discriminated and treated unfairly because of their race. When the bombing happened the social media started spreading rumors and making every Japanese american seem like terrorists and spies trying to destroy the U.S. government from within.
Guards made sure that there would be no escapees by surrounding the camp with guard towers. Finally, the government exchanged human rights for the safety of the country. They forced the Japanese into internment camps for two years. The people of Japanese ancestry had their rights taken away from them in order to keep spies from giving critical information to Japan while World War II. Japan finally lost the war, allowing the internees to be set
In 1939, World War II began with Germany invading Poland. Then, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, bringing fear into the eyes of the American people. Americans were mistreating innocent Japanese-Americans who did nothing but live peacefully in the United States. As time went on, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which allowed the military to extract Japanese-Americans and other potential threats to the west coast of America to be held in internment camps. We should teach this history in schools across the nation, so none of this cruelty is ever perpetuated in America again!
I watched an interview of a man; George Takei who was in one of this camps and he shared his experience, what he went through, and how the camp changed his life completely. Reading about the japanese internment in articles online are upsetting enough, but actually hearing someone’s experience who was actually there in flesh just makes everything more real. This really happened,it is very serious, and it ruined and changed
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