Friday, April 6, 2018
"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 Mon., April 9th, 2018.
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When looking at Densho.org one pattern that stood out to me was assuming a person was one thing, because they looked a certain way. If a person looked remotely Japanese they were wrongfully imprisoned, because they were Japanese. Because they looked Japanese the US government assumed that they were the enemy, and would try to hurt the US. This is racism. To assume a person is foe or friend based on their nationality, is racism. In the section called “Looking Like the Enemy,” it talks about how the US formed lists of possible Japanese rebellion leaders, from pre-war savalince. Using this list they were able to arrest these leaders hours after Pearl Harbour. How mainly, it was only people of Japanese descent, not German or Italian. Showing the recurring pattern, that throughout history, the US is a racist nation.
During this time, there was great Japanese turmoil and lots of paranoia due to the actions at Pearl Harbor, and other international conflicts. Many Japanese were in America from immigration, but by this time, lots of the Japanese population had been born in the U.S and many generations had passed. Despite being citizens, since they looked like the enemy, or had a little bit of Japanese, they were forced to move to these internment camps. The stories of being stripped from their houses, work, land, and everything that they had were very impactful and were tragic to hear. It would be useful to have all of your hard work and everything that you have to be ripped out of your hands and sold, for the profit of the government. Even worse, when they were released from these conditions, they came back to nothing. Entire families suffered, just because of their ancestry and race.
What are some ideas or trends that profoundly struck you that are addressed regarding this period in American History?
Making a group of people go to these internment camps just because of what they look like is racially discriminating. Even if you had 1/8 Japanese descendants, you were still Japanese in American eyes. Just because Pearl Harbor happened doesn't mean it's every Japanese's fault for that event. Especially the child, what did they do to deserve being move around so much into different places? Just because they were Japanese, which isn't fair at all.
The Japanese were imprisoned just for being Japanese. And their living conditions were absolutely awful. It was dirty and gross. The food would spoil and the people who cooked it dont know how to cook. Kids were getting sick and had to get shots, which only made them more sick. The clothing they wore was made out of old army clothing which was much too big for them. They had to just cooperate with what they were told and they had to suck it up and live with where they live and how they are treated. It was really cold for them as well, and the houses werent very well built so they were always super cold.
When I looked at the website, I noticed that most of the pictures and descriptions seemed very sad. Most the of the Japanese people in America immigrated because they thought they could trust the United States. When the United States threw them into internment camps, they knew that the United States abandoned them. Most of the people were taken away from homes and there regular life and thrown into almost torture. They were not as bad as concentration camps where they were physically and mentally tortured, but they were definitely not safe and good place.
While looking at the website entitle Densho I found the page called "Looking Like the Enemy" to be very interesting due to the United States long history of wrongfully profiling and discriminating people due to the way they look or the color of their skin. The Japanese Internment camps were just another example of this in the history of our country. Although these people were U.S. citizens and that most of them ran businesses in our country and spoke our language, we still saw them as a threat because they were from Japanese descent, and as the website had said, they looked like the enemy. I think that overall this part of our history is wrong and disgraceful, we stripped them of their freedom, what our country is founded on, just because of where their ancestors were from.
After the attack of Pearl Harbor, many americans were concerned about the Japanese that lived on US soil. Because of that the government decided to move everyone who had Japanese descent into concentration camps. They were moved from their homes and stripped from everything they had. They had to work in unfair conditions and there was nothing they could do about it. All of these events happened just because of their race.
This text is a huge portion of American history, and it shows how colored people were treated in this time period. We were in a war with Japan, so we assumed that every Japanese person, even if they were born in America, was the enemy. We thought that they were going to take all of our private information and take it back to their "home" country Japan. The Japanese were shown as the enemy. The US posted flyers all around town about how they could be spies and how they were going to have to live in the internment camps. This was really unfair for them because they were mistreated just because of their racial ties. Chances are, more Americans were spies for Japan than Japanese people. It could have been a strategy for Japan to make white people the spies because making Japanese people the spies would almost be too obvious. Overall, we did not treat Japanese Americans fairly at this time, and it was a bad time in history for America because of the way colored people were treated.
It is very sad that every Japanese American was taken away from their homes and put into these harsh internment camps. They were discriminated against because of false propaganda and treated terribly. The U.S. saw them to be the enemies when they were just innocent people that had no control of what happened. Families were torn apart and even in the end when they were allowed to live freely, that could not happen because of the racism they still faced.
Discrimination was taken care of in the papers against those of color, but that didn't stop the prejudice of our society from spreading like a disease. The Pearl Harbor attack affected millions, and because of our quick will to jump, us, Americans quickly turned against our Japanese American citizens. Though a citizen, their race and ethnicity combined into one, left a mark of upheaval in prejudice´s eyes. Not long after the attack did prejudice take form in that of an internment camp, where those of Japanese background would be moved to, and stay for a time. Trends, such as being stripped from everything familiar, soon awakened. Life within the camp, was what most described as crowded, gross, and created several differing opinions throughout the different generations.
When I was looking over the web,the pictures really stood out to me. Most of the pictures I saw looked sad along with the descriptions. Most of the Japanese people that lived in America had no other choice to immigrate, because they thought they could trust the United States but after they found out what was happening they thought differently. When the US put all of the japanese in the interment camps, to be safe they knew for a fact the were left behind and didn't really trust their country. They were almost betrayed. Most of the Japanese had lost almost everything. They lost their homes and normal day life, and were threw into pure torture. The internment camps were not horrible, but they were deffinetly something you don't want to be thew into.
During this time, the U.S put many Japanese if they were citizens or moved to the U.S. The U.S forced Japanese to go Camp due to the fear of Pearl Harbor. Their houses, stores, everything was taken away from them by the government. When it was all over all came back with nothing, and ended up with nothing and started all over.
When looking at this website, there was something that really stood out. If people at all resembled, looked like or even had a slight bit of heritage to the Japanese they were treated horribly. Because of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were treated like, well animals for just looking like the enemy even if they were not involved. This is one of the major forms of racism that had been brought to the light.And immediately after the bombing lists were put together on who was part of the Japanese heritage “These lists allowed the government to begin rounding up what were now “enemy aliens” within hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor.” After the situation the US government did everything to round of the “enemy aliens” and send them away to camps. Despite being citizens with the same rights as everyone, they are treated in lower circumstances. Thousands of people were shipped away to an island, and it was terribly put together, and completely last minute. Because of one situation, that only a small amount of people did, the entire race was thrown to the side and discriminated.
After pearl Harbor, there was a lot of conflict during this time in Japanese towns. The japanese were forced to go to camps, and were stripped of their houses and jobs. They had to get worse jobs that had very low pay and were very long hard days. It seems that there is a pattern that people are not treated right and they are put in poor conditions where they work really hard and barely get anything out of it. When they were forced to go to the camps, they would come back home to nothing and have no job and nothing to live off of. This makes me realize sad trends of treating people poorly and living hard lives.
Heavily shown throughout the Densho website, Japanese citizens underwent horrible conditions in the internment camps on American soil. The website provides multiple reasons explaining why the internment of Japanese Americans was unconstitutional. Japanese that had been living in the United States for longer than twenty years were suddenly prisoners. The reason, wartime necessities. Filled with the paranoia of an internal and Japanese-based breach, the American government decided to utilize the most extreme solution. In internment camps awaited horrible conditions, taking away self-respect and esteem from inhabitants. Rather than torturing the Japanese, internment camps simply used poor construction and maintenance, to force the prisoners into uncomfortable situations. Overall, Americans didn’t consider the effects internment camps had on the Japanese citizens, instead, used the camps as a “reassurance of safety”.
Throughout looking at the website, many Japanese people went through many hardships by being put into internment camps in America and losing everything that they have ever owned. Many of the Japanese families that had been living in America or born in America became apart of the camps. The United States saw Japan as an enemy and they needed to get rid of all the japanese in the US. Many families created terrifying memories that will never be forgotten.
While looking at the website I noticed the number of people that seemed to be suffering from what is going on in their surrounding. After the attack on Hawaii took place the US started internment camps which was miserable for the people. Actions that took place was basically racism, if you even looked like you had heritage in the Japanese culture you were thrown in the internment camps. The pictures represent what people felt, they are mostly black and white as well which matches how the people are feeling. The US threw families in the camps even if they were born in America, we saw them as a problem we felt we needed to fix. In the mind of the US internment camps were a cruel solution.
In February 1942, Roosevelt signed United States Executive Order 9066, requiring all Japanese Americans to submit themselves for internment. Propaganda made repeated use of the attack, because its effect was enormous and impossible to counter. "Remember Pearl Harbor!" became the watchwords of the war. Throughout the whole website, you can tell that japanese people did not have it so good in America, they were put into camps Americans didn't care if you had been living as a US citizen in America for years they wanted all japanese people gone. This was punishment because of the Pearl Harbor bombing.
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