Tuesday, March 1, 2016
"Farewell To Manzanar" Internment Web Link Background Information?
Regarding the Densho Internment Link Resource, what are some ideas or
trends that profoundly struck you that are addressed regarding this
period in American History? Please use any quotes or specific
references to materials that validate your argument. Due by 2:30p.m. on Wed., March 2nd, 2016.
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Regarding the Densho Internment Link Resource, There are many ideas and trends that struck me. What struck me is that a country like ours would go through all of the trouble to incarcerate many of the Japanese. It is very sad that our country had such grudges against the Japanese for Pearl Harbor. An example, written on the website, "After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt cited military necessity as the basis for incarcerating 120,000 Japanese Americans—adults and children, immigrants and citizens alike." The website also states, " Driven by pressure from Western states, the federal government negotiated the Gentlemen’s Agreement with Japan in 1907 and 1908, which stopped the further migration of Japanese laborers." The government went through great struggles to prevent any Japanese from entering the US.
When I looked at the Densho website, there were many ideas that struck me, but there was one that stood out to me the most. What scared me the most was that so many people that were innocent got held in these camps in America just to stop Japanese information being brought into the United Sates. So many families got ripped apart even though they never did anything wrong. Americans could just assume because they had Japanese heritage, that they might be interfering with the Japanese that bombed Pearl Harbor. Even people with Japanese heritage that were born in America. The U.S. government hurt many people and went through a big struggle just to make sure we are safe, even though many Japanese Americans were hurt.
On the Densho website there are so many different stories, and images that really have the power to move people.Some thing that stuck with me was the story of this girl sally who was turned away from joining the girl scouts when she returned from after the war.Another piece that stuck with me where the amount of people that had to give up so much of their lives to be moved to this camp.I breaks my heart to have to watch these innocent people be taken from their homes to be put in such horrible camps. The densho website is a strong representation of what the times were like.
The main idea that struck me was the "looking like the enemy". Especially in the book when the author said "he was suddenly a man with no rights who looked exactly like the enemy". This struck out to me because it is obvious that many discriminated the author and her family. It didn't matter that they weren't the enemy, it mattered that they looked like one, and officials wouldn't even care that her family were Americans, and not against America. That stuck out to me because the author and her family did not deserve what was done to them.
There are many pictures and articles on the Densho website that are touching and moving. What struck me is how Americans treated Japanese-Americans and how much it related to how Hitler treated the Jewish people. They were treated very poorly the website states "many inmates lived in recently vacated horse stalls and slept on straw mattresses", not only were they called inmates they were treated like animlas or "aliens".
Reading the Densho website made me realize that there were so many more people that were taken from their homes and life. I knew that many of the Japanese-Americans were taken from their homes, because many people were afraid. What I don't understand is why that fear had so many people turning against innocent people that had nothing to do with what happened on Pearl Harbor. Sending them to interment camps that was packed just left the many innocent people taken confused on what they had done to be sent somewhere that left them feeling like animals. The Densho website helps give a background and representation of what happened in the camps.
On the website Densho, there are many topic to read and listen about. You can visualize how harsh living was a how it had the power to move people into thinking why would we do this. The one thing that stood out to me was the looking like the enemy. This had really sunk in on how people we very racist towards them and how they are put into these places even though they were innocence. Another story was about Righting the Wrong. This was about how they were trying to revive there living but they still didn't get back to the regular routine. Densho can show a great big part in the most horrible history timeline ever
One trend the struck me, was how racist Americans were towards the Japanese Americans. Yes they were the same race as the enemy, but did they really do anything bad. I understand the ideology of fear and how many Americans were scared, but those Japanese Americans were scared as well, just as much and some/many of them were loyal to the government. The way we treated them, was unfair, and basically segregation. They were human too, looking for equal rights, and we took that away from them.
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