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Discrimination Against Japanese Americans

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However, the prejudiced behavior towards Japanese people during the war did not start with the war but it encouraged the placement of Japanese Americans in internment camps. From the time the first Japanese arrived in United States groups formed against them. Since, American people were afraid that Asian people were a moral danger to the United States because they were not Christian. They also feared that Japanese people were taking away jobs from Americans. An example of the racism present in the early 1900s was the Immigration Restriction League, a group of anti-Japanese people. They wanted to allow the immigration of European people but to stop the immigration of Japanese, Korean, and Chinese people. This group felt that Asian people were
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