During the time Commodore Matthew Perry was eager to be the first American in Japan, in 200 years, to bring a letter of friendship, peace and trade to them, Theodore Roosevelt was sending his own letter to stress his thoughts on pushing the Japanese as to prevent war and them migrating to the United States. Although these two documents differ in tones and views, they both have impacted our history. Through the eyes of the sailors who had the privilege of sailing with the Commodore, had a view, that day was going to change history. Once they could see the Japanese shores, they started noticing some differences right away between this closed off country and the rest of the world. “Old fashioned” are the words that were used to describe their …show more content…
Roosevelts’ writing came across in a persuasive way with plenty of examples, completed thoughts and plans. He started off by listing all the foreign policies currently in action and went through all their progresses. The concluding point he made is that Japan should be our first priority while, apparently, all the other countries were in good status with the United States and if trouble came up, it wouldn’t have been so serious. Roosevelt had it in his letter that Japan has a strong, proud military power that could possibly be dangerous if we aren’t careful. He predicts a race problem would occur if a large population of Japanese comes to the United States and I would have to partially agree with his thoughts on this worry. The United States is a melting pot, but Japan just started to get exposed to industrialization and shouldn’t be so quick to jump to other countries that would be a culture shock all while they need to focus on themselves. Roosevelt backs this thinking up with an example in Hawaii, were the Japanese has already outnumbered the whites there and taking their jobs. There’s a very clear link between what’s happening in our world, present day 2017, and what Roosevelt is stating, just with a different race. Foreign policy is always talked about and the United States are divided in conflict with embracing the Hispanic immigrants or the