Summary Of Camp When I See One By Satsuki Ina

Interning Abused Families

“I Know an American ‘Internment’ Camp When I See One” is a powerful response article written by Satsuki Ina. In this article Ina compares her experience in several World War Two Japanese internment camps to modern family detention facilities. Ina begins her article by explaining she was born in a Japanese internment camp, and spent most of her childhood in one, then moves into her body paragraphs where she graphically describes her visit to a family detention center and her corresponding emotions and reactions. Throughout the article it is crystal-clear that Ina is horrified that America falls back on such cruel and damaging ways of handling people. I agree that the similarities of World War Two internment camps and

After describing her mother’s life in multiple internment camps and the corresponding lifelong PTSD her mother suffered from, Ina queries “I wonder how many lives, just like my mother’s, the U.S. government is needlessly and cruelly damaging today for its ill-advised “family detention” program.” The author makes sure her point -the detention center is a modern internment camp- is clear by her persistent use of adjectives such as “cruelly” and “damaging” as well as using phrases like “just like my mother's.” I agree with Ina’s point; however, Ina alienates her readers by demonizing the U.S. government. While the U.S. government is the controlling force of family detention facilities, and it is important to point out that America is repeating the mistakes made in World War Two, Ina should focus on the connections between Japanese internment camps and the facility, or the horrors of the facility, rather than who is to

This is an interview between Green and the Japanese internment camp specialist Anne Blankenship. Blankenship, when questioned about the similarities between World War Two behavior towards the Japanese and today’s behavior towards Muslims, admits “There are quite a few similarities, certainly, in terms of the slow rise of increased animosity and hateful sayings and actions.” Blankenship admits there are similarities in the actions and behaviors of World War Two and modern people. I agree with this, there are similar actions. However, in World War Two most Americans were against the Japanese and today, although there are those with racist views, most Americans are against incarcerating innocent