Wednesday, February 27, 2013
"Farewell To Manzanar" Internment Resource 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 28th, 2013
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i think that it is very sad that over half of the people killed were either children or infants because they hadn't even done anything wrong yet president Roosevelt still ordered the incarceration of all those Japanese Americans even the children and infants
Some things that struck me while reading this were how the military made the people see the barbed wire and fences and guards with guns.This seemed like an intimidation method. another thing that stuck with me is how they didnt let any one keep their land that they had outside of the camps it all became part of the US militarys's
I found it surprising that over 100,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans were held in internment camps for no crimes. The people in these camps were never told what there crime was.the site says "Japanese Americans had no charges brought against them, there was no hearing; they did not know where they were going, how long they would be detained, what conditions they would face, nor what would happen to them." This is extremely surprising since we are a country that so often stands for freedom and equality, and yet we are holding Japanese Americans in camps just for being Japanese. Families were often time split up. This would be horrible if young children were split up from there parents and put in camps were they may not know anyone. What we did was horrible, and it should not have taken so long for the U.S. government to issue and apology.
I was struck about the fact that even though the government thought there was no threat in Japanese-American citizens President Roosevelt still sent them into camps that didn't allow "outside" contact. "Despite the government's own evidence that Japanese Americans posed no military threat, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal and incarceration of over 110,000 Japanese Americans." This explains that even though they weren't a threat, the President still put them in camps to be safe. America was paranoid about going to war they weren't taking any risks in this war.
The worst thing that I thought hurt me the most, was probably the Camps. The camps we're the worst because they didn't feed them and they didn't have any beds or anything. They put 110,000 Japanese American's into exile and they died within months of starvation. "Courage is something strong within you that brings out the best in a person. Perhaps no one else may know or see, but it’s those hidden things unknown to others, that reveals a person to God and self."
- Yuri Nakahara Kochiyama.
They say that it is very important that you read and learn about the Japanese Americans because of the damage we have done, and the damage they did to us.
The thing that scared me the most in this book was how America, the greatest power I the world was sinking to the other countries levels by locking up innocent people for no reason. Americans are Americans, no matter what they look like.
The ideas and trends that struck me the most was the fact that they were ostracized from communities and were treated poorly for something they didn't do. 110,000 American citizens were put into the internment camps all because of where their family came from. The people were put into camps with no knowledge of why they were going or where they were going, they did not expect to be put in a fenced in area with no contact to the outside world.
I feel that the incarceration of Japanese-Americans was completely unnecessary because America was the greatest power in the world and we were being completely racist. It was unfair to the citizens and more than half of the citizens were children and they should not have gone to the camps.
The thing that scared me the most in this book was how America, the greatest power I the world was sinking to the other countries levels by locking up innocent people for no reason. Americans are Americans, no matter what they look like.
The thing that scared me the most in this book was how America, the greatest power I the world was sinking to the other countries levels by locking up innocent people for no reason. Americans are Americans, no matter what they look like.
I feel that the Internment camps for the Japanese was just awful. To think as Americans we would do such a thing towards people that live in our own country just disgusts me. I know we sugar coat it by saying that we feed the people in a interment camps and treated them well, but in reality we treated people like animals putting them in a enclosed area. We pretty much took peoples lives away for something they didn't even do.
One fact that sticks to me is the fact that over a million people died as a cause of the war. Another thing is that we really don't know how many casualties the Russians suffered because the Russians really didn't want people to know how weak the Soviet Union really was.
I think that the Japanese internment camps were very dumb and unnecessary. They were a very bad environment for children to grow up in and learn in. after all, the people were not going to harm the United States any way. I am glad that the government officially apologized and made reparations to the Japanaese.
What I found surprising was the amount of Japanese that were relocated."President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal and incarceration of over 110,000 Japanese Americans." I never would have thought that so many people lost their possessions.Not only that, they lost the trust of the whole U.S. The racism was very great for multiple races but mainly the Japanese. "...racism prevented many of them from living in places of their choice or moving about in society at will."
Reading this article really made me think how unfair the situation is for the Japanese Americans. They are citizens just like us and they were through into internment camps because their home country invaded us. They are Americans like us. It is extremely ironic because we thought the Germans throwing Jews into camps but we did the same exact thing. "Early rumors of sabotage and espionage by Japanese residents in Hawaii and the West Coast had been found to be false by the FBI and other governmental agencies, but these findings were suppressed by high U.S. officials in government." this is what the article said and we still put then in the camp.
This website contains so much powerful and useful information. It really amazed me the way that these people were treated; it was almost like we were putting them in concentration camps. I was also really shocked to hear that our military took all of the land that these people owned.
There were many things that stuck to me in this webquest like how the Japanese were held against their will and shipped to these places to work for only $8-$16 a month for working 44 hours a week! The conditions were almost as severe as the concentration camps over in Europe. If you tried to escape, they would practially shoot you! THis movement was very distant from the US morals and values, and didn't demonstrate at all what it is like to be an American citizen. The US is suppoused to be a place where religon or race doesn't matter. I think this kind of treatment is similar to what happened to the middle easterns after 9/11
I think that our country was racist and mean to Asians before WW2."In fact, America as a whole in the 1930s was a place of little tolerance toward people of color" The U.S. acted cruel toward the Japanese immigrants. "Within hours of the news from Hawaii, FBI agents, many without evidence, search or arrest warrants, conducted house to house roundups of 1,212 Issei (first-generation Japanese immigrants) in Hawaii and the mainland." This shows who and how many first generation Japanese immigrants were captured.
While reading through the Interment Link Resource Database, I discovered that after 46 years the government finally decided to apologize to the Japanese for the injustice that happened. It is unbelievable that "two thirds were american citizens and over half were children and infants." We put United States citizens in camps that they did not deserve to be in. I found this to be unconstitutional and cruel.
In the class, American History, we learned a lot about the relocation camps that went on during WWII.Two-thirds were American citizens. And in this internment recourse what stuck out to me was "Over half were children or infants.Their "crime": their Japanese ancestry." They were sent to these camps for one reason, they were of a Japanese descent. Not because every single one of them were threats to our country, because that was most definitely not the case.
Something that I really couldn't shake was how we treated the Japanese Americans, it was like they were our prisoners of war for being a certain race reguardless of where they were born.Americans pretty much made the Japanese their little play dolls by transferring them from camp to camp,taking their family members away and returnig them whenever we felt like it, and making them live in wooden poorly built cages.
the thing that stuck out to me was the camps that the Japanese people were sent to camps just because of their heritage and race and the torture they did to innicent people
I think the most unfair thing was that no matter how much the people tried to prove their loyalty to the country they couldn't. They had no opportunity to prove themselves and were treated very unfairly. Over half of the people there were american citizens. They were being rejected by their own country. About half of them were kids having to grow up in a camp with not a lot of food.
After Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066. This prisoned many Japanese Americans and over half of the people were children. Pearl Harbor was so surprising to the U.S. that the U.S. declared war the next day. "Institutional racism prevented many of them from living in places of their choice or moving about in society at will." There was a lot of racism in that time in history. Americans stopped the Japanese from living their lives and letting them do what they want.
One thing i couldn't understand and i still don't understand. Is How we could do this with no evidence. With no evidence we threw these american citizens it camps. That fact that we had no evidence and we did this shows that Americans were really fearful of the war and the enemy.
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