Wednesday, February 15, 2012
"Farewell To Manzanar": Internment Link Reaction
Regarding the Internment Link Resource Database, 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 Wed., February 15th, 2012.
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this period of history was horrible it was full of hate war and violence.
This period of time was all about war, violence, and internment. the camps that they put these Japanese people in were made for those whon were ready to give up on life and thes people were not ready to give that up they were forced into these homes and left they're personal belongings at home.
In the book Farewell to Manzanar my reaction was I was shocked and confused how the Japanese were treated in such bad ways. It was cruel and not fair to treat Japanese Americans that way they didn't have anything to do with pearl harborer.Most got split up from their family's.Which was awful. the time period was in the 1940. It seamed then they didn't care so much about freedom but more with revenge. Like when her father just knew that they were going to take him away because of his work anything suspicious got sent away.
Well I thought it was rather stuped in the idea that they had the right to lock up all people with Japanese ancestors. Because when you think of it most how we're locked up were born and raised in America and thought as then selfs as amaricans. Then there were the tags that they placed on them. Though we saied Germany is the monster for what they did to the Jews didn't we do the same to the Japanese. Maybe it wasn't as harsh you think but no matter what we still locked up inecent people.
I thought it was unfair treatment towards the Japanese Americans. We rounded all of these people up who had no idea where they were being taken and they were forced to leave pets and anything that they couldn't carry behind to live in uncomfortable living conditions. Many families lived in horse stalls in unsanitary conditions that were sometimes by open sewers. Bathrooms were shared with the whole community with no privacy. Basically it was prison life for people who did nothing wrong.
"Two-thirds were American citizens. Over half were children or infants, It wasn't necessary to put all these citizens in Internment camps.They made them sell there money source and there homes,for no purpose. Now they have nothing to go back to. Children were raised in the camps and that's all they know. Almost all of the Japanese Americans were loyal citizens.And taking everything away from them, besides what they could carry wasn't the right thing to do.
The Internment Link, made me think about a lot of different things, and I had many different reactions. The main thing that struck me was how many kids had to go to the internment camps. Most of the kids had no idea what was going on, let alone would participate in the war. The camps also tore family's apart because of the living conditions and how they were treated. "Family life deteriorated, as communal arrangement for all activities, including eating, encouraged children to spend time away from the family "home." Parental authority diminished." http://caamedia.org/jainternment/camps/camplife.html
This blog shows how much of a struggle WWII put the Japanese through. Not only does the site talk about what happened to the Japanese, but it does what most sites are lacking these days, it talks about what happened to the culture after the war. The most intriguing section to me was the section about how the Japanese culture is doing today. The website says "Although the redress payments and apology could never fully compensate the individual survivors for... the physiological trauma endured, Japanese Americans... felt a great burden lifted." WWII was a big mistake in our countries history, and we can't take it back. The internment link doesn't candy coat how we dealt with the Japanese situation during WWII, but instead tells the story from their point of view.
The internment link was not exactly where I got all of my opinions formed, but reading 'Farewell to Manazar', a story told from the point of view of one of the victims is much more deep than any documentary could ever be. The link was far more unbaised and neutral.
It was unfair to treat the Japanese that way, but all the same it was a matter of national security. The government was right in some ways to think that Japanese Americans could be leaking info to their homeland. However, it's not okay to violate human rights by treating them like animals.
I was shocked when I first saw the Internment Link. It's really sad to think that these innocent Japanese people had to go to the camps and suffer. When people would think of this, they wouldn't think of it being that serious until they saw pictures or videos from back then. Many Japanese families probably lost they idea of 'family' because they were trapped in a small reserved area. On the link it said more than half of the people in the camps were children. To think that those kids had to grow up in pain and wonder, probably changed the way they looked at life, and they probably felt scared and cautious after they got released from the camp. Additionally, what I learned from the link and my history class, is that they had to leave behind all personal items, they were given a list and they were only allowed to take those items and nothing else. Today, those who are still alive and actually experienced it, are probably scared to tell their experience because it brings up bad memories. On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed the executive order which allowed the Japanese to be relocated. Even though, the government said that everything was based on military necessity, I personally, think that it was mainly based on racism.
During the time of world war 2, alot of discrimination was going on all over the world but japanese internment was something here in America that was completely unjust. The reason these camps were unjstified is beacause the japanese Americans(most were actual citizens of the U.S.) were being punnished for their haritage which is an inevitabe element of life. It was a comlete violation of the American constitution and overall philosophy and just because we apologized for it 46 years later does not make it okay.
In the interment link, what stuck out to me the most was the camp living and conditions. They slept in very small rooms with few to no necessitates. Social and family communication was deteriorated. These camp were very racial and unfair to Japanese Americans.
This was a bad time for the Japanese in the U.S, it is sad how when the Japanese had to be put in camps,and everything they had, like their jobs, buisnesess and such, were taken away from them. They lost everything and it was a very very rough time for them.
This period in time surprised me because as Americans we automatically accused the Japanese Americans for helping with the bombing of pearl harbor. But in reality it really could have been any person that helped them to bomb us. We really didnt think of anyone but ourselves their was alot of hate and propaganda used in this time to make others change their minds on how they looked at the Japanese. My thought were that it was cruel and unnecessary to treat them that way because we never had any proof that it was a Japanese person told.
I am astonished by the anti-immigrant hysteria of the time. According to the website, "Over half [of the detainees] were children. Did America really think that the children were spies for the Japanese? Also, this is incredibly unfair. 2/3 of the people interned were American citizens. They should have had the same rights that everyone else does because they were citizens, regardless of ancestry. But on the other side, if some of the people detained were spies, we may have not won the war if we did not intern these Japanese, and there very well may have been spies for the Japanese in America.
this time after the pearl harbor was a sad time for Japanese-Americans, they were moved around to many different locations.. its sad cause they were forced away, and sometimes lost their loved ones, and had to leave the majority of there belongings behind
Reading the Internment camp link gave me a whole different perspective on how badly the Japanese were treated. The part that stuck out the most to me was actually the end. It talked about when world war 2 ended, America either sent all the Japanese back to Japan where they had just bombed and left in ruins, or they could start a whole new life some where in America. They couldn't go back to the home where they lived originally and would have to start a whole new business. They couldn't continue their own business that they created beforehand. It got mad at America after reading this."The Japanese were identified as "enemy alien." That is just cruel!
In the Internment Link Resource Database, a quote that showed connections between that and the book is; "Two-thirds were American citizens. Over half were children or infants". This quote stands out because the president thought it was a good idea to round up all the people that were Japanese. Which isn't very smart because they are US American citizens. Tons of the people that were locked up were born here, children and babies also even if they came to America and were born in Japan not all those thousands could be apart of the Pearl Harbor attack. I know they are trying to watch out for everyone else but its not far for all the lives that had to be wasted sitting inside a closed area for such a long time.
The fact that people had to leave their homes, friends, and lives behind just because of their race was a horrible and very racist movement but that's what was normal at the time; people were separated because of their race. After the war was over the Japanese were expected to return to where they came from when almost all of their possessions they had to leave behind had been stolen and their jobs had been given away. No help was given to them until much later when it wasn't even needed anymore. "Those who returned to their pre-war homes often found them vandalized and even marred with racial epithets." (Japanese American Internment) It was horrible that people were scared so much of an entire race that they didn't even realize that Japan looked at all of the Japanese-Americans as traitors.
What impacts me most is the length that the government went to to isolate the Japanese, they were put into camps in the middle of nowhere, with no forms of communication, and had constant military surveillance on them. We had reasons to suspect them, but not to tear away their rights as American citizens.
this part of the war was not a good one in the eyes of the people of the US today because we look back and say how where we any different then the Germans that put people into camps. Also the way we treated the Japaneses was unfair and uneducated by use and by are government by making these people leave with nothing but there clothes and what they can carry.
In this period of history it was very bad. There was so much death. There was death every where. Even in America where the war was even being fought. people were dieing in internment camps where oriental people would die because of harsh living and uncooked food.
Through this link I found that no matter your health or your age you were sent to an Internment camp if you had japanese ancestry. But it was Harsh living conditions in these camps. You lived in barracks with a few cots and a stove for warmth. Life was hard but character shined through many people. in
The fact that Japanese imigrants and heritage were supject to more discrimination and hate than the German and Italian immigrants seems unfair. I dont agree with any of the discrimination of that time but i still dont think the Japanese should have been treated any diffeerent. Hitler and Mussolini had already done more damage than the Japanese but since the US suffered direct damage, both physically and emotionaly.
If we look at the the way we handled the Japanese Americans, what part does not make us hypocrites? We said that the extermination camps from the Nazi movement were immoral and had no just motivation behind it yet we did the same thing to the Japanese American people even if it wasn't nearly as severe. We still had no true motivation behind it and we still treated them as if they were somehow less human. ....
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