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The Trauma Japanese Americans Faced Imagine being forced out of a home to leave everything behind unexpectedly, that’s what Japanese Americans went through starting in 1942. President Roosevelt in 1942 issued Executive Order 9066. This allowed the government to round up all the Japanese Americans and force them into internment camps. All Japanese Americans were taken away just because of their heritage, they had everything taken away from them, even though they weren't threatening anyone. In the Japanese American video, We Are Americans Too, and the Japanese American Wartime Incarceration article, all show how Americans are prejudiced against Japanese Americans. Simply because of their heritage, they were treated inhumanely. These Japanese …show more content…

They were forcibly removed from their homes, and victims became traumatized and emotionally unstable. “10 weeks after the 1941 Japanese military attack on Pearl Harbor the US government authorized the removal of more than 110,000 Japanese American men, women, and children from their homes in Western portions of the country to incarceration camps in desolate areas of the United States.”(We Are Americans Too 1)Imagine just being removed from home just because of heritage, which is what Japanese Americans went through.110,000 Japanese Americans thought their life would never get better after being taken away from their homes. “Past camp victims say being labeled as an enemy alien and incarcerated in a concentration camp was the most traumatic experience of their life.”(We Are Americans too 2) Remarkably, Japanese Americans began to experience new emotions they had never felt before. “Shock, fear, and worry were common initial psychological reactions as Japanese Americans were forced to deal with the stress of enforced dislocation and the abandonment of their homes, possessions, and businesses.”(We Are Americans Too 2)As Japanese Americans were forced to leave behind their whole life they started becoming emotionally

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