Tuesday, March 5, 2019
"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 3:40p.m. on Mon., Mar. 11th, 2019.
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On the website there are so many different stories, and images that really can effect people emotionally. The story of this girl sally who was turned away from joining the girl scouts when she returned from after the war and the amount of people that had to give up so much of their lives to be moved to this camp.
As I Was looking through the website, I clicked on the "core story link" As I was looking through the main page on this link, I noticed that this main points of this story are bias. Yes, after Pearl Harbor, America joined the war. And there was a stigma against Japanese-Americans, but Pearl Harbor was not the only reason this stigma was created. The justification of these camps may not seem visible now, but back then there had to have been justification. The Japenese were portrayed like the enemy, just like the website said. I also noticed that the website called these camps "concentration" camps.
Some events that struck me were involving american concentration camps. Anyone of Japanese descent was sent to these camps without any reason, taken out of their homes and left their whole life behind. Americans moved into their homes that were not sent to the camps and took their belongings, neighbors acted like their friends and neighbors did not even exist at some point.Even though they were taken from their homes they were given somewhat of a regular life. "The WRA tried to run the camps as if they were small towns, establishing schools and recreational activities and even holding elections for “self-government.”
The ideas and trends that struck you that are addressed regarding this period in American History were how inhuman some people were and the torture and hardships people went through. This quote "The story of World War II incarceration, and the decades of racial discrimination and government surveillance against Japanese Americans that preceded it, has never been more relevant." really y stuck with me because although terrible things happened in the past things just as bad are happening today.
Ella Rakowski
One of the ideas that stuck out to me most was how they were treated so unfairly and different as if they were not humans. They were stripped away from their homes and put into shanty towns based of rumors and superstitions. It was so inhumane of the other people to treat them the way they have been treated. It makes me sad how awful some people can be.
This website makes is crazy to look at the different things that happened to real families during the internment camps. It is sad to see so many innocent Japanese-Americans kept in camps with a total different lifestyle than what it looks like at their home.
One thing that really stuck out to me after reading this text, was how much racism there was in the time period. I was also surprised to learn how poorly treated the people of the camps were compared to the rest of American society. The website explained that Japanese Americans were forced into America's version of a concentration camp. These people were disregarded as citizens as a whole, only because of the history of their ancestors. The website explained the far the camps put in the people's minds going back home after the time in the camp. It influenced how they live their day to day life.
Something interesting that I found in the website was that the people who are living in the camps are ineligible to buy land for farming purposes. People were not treated fairly which is bad.Eventually, they banned japanese immigration completely. Overall, this situation was bad.
Some ideas that struck me were that people were forced to go to these places with out the will from the owners. it says this ", and this plan was called off after a mere 5,000 out of 110,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast had moved"
One thing that stuck out to me was how brutal they were about everything people lost there lives in cruel ways and there were tattooed and branded to set them in there place and the families were separated if they were taken together the Germans in that time were mean and heartless.
I decided to look at the Colorado Imprisonment camp, Granada, and read about its history. I learned that this camp was one of the loosest camps for the “impisoners”. They ran shops and lots of farms and most all of them had jobs, they could walk to the neighboring town but that was it. Ie. “The proximity of Amache to the town of Granada created a situation unique among the WRA camps. Inmates were close enough to Granada that walking into town to shop or even just visit a soda fountain was a common occurrence. The positive effect this had on camp morale was noted by the WRA.” This was one of the few camps that had a better morale and allowed people to live a little more despite being confined to an area.
After looking at the website, I found that the what struck me the most was the people's living conditions and how the government tried to cover up how bad the camps were. People in these camps were packed into living spaces with families of about 5 people per room. The camps were surrounded by barbed wire fences, watch towers, and soldiers with weapons. The Government made it seem like the living conditions were adequate and glossed over the way the people were treated like prisoners.
After taking the short tie I had to look at this website somethings at was very interesting was how hard the government tried to cover this up. The government did whatever they could to make sure their reputation was good. It makes me sick really because of the fact that there's a simple fact in that both side committed atrocity during the war.
Jack Tupler
After looking at the website, there were some things that were very interesting as they happened in the US and it was such a bad thing. I find it interesting that we had such little trust in the Japanese people that we had to lock them all up and do what we did. Even though this is such a bad thing that we did, It does make some sense because of the bombing. We might have been forced to lock them up because we didn't want any more attacks on the US by the Japanese. I wonder what happened in these camps as I don't really know and what happened when they got out.
When I had looked at the website the thing that shocked me the most was how these people were living and how their own people covered it up to make their country look good. These camps in the Second World War are bad with watchtowers and armed men around them. It shows the length people will go to, to make there reputation look good.
The website shows some stuff about how this was an awful thing and ow it was not fair for the US to do that to the Japanese people. The living conditions in the camps were definitely not ideal. It was essentially racism even thought the Americans were not sure, and lots of people didn't know exactly what was going on. I also learned a little bit about this in history, and that helps with my background and I learned that it was basically a mini town, but with guards. It wasn't run like a normal town, they had labor and the kids went to school. After the Japanese were allowed to leave the camps they don't have homes to come back too, which was very rude. Clearly, this was an example of racism or something to that extent.
Densho has a lot of stuff regarding the time period when WWII was happening and the Japanese were getting segregated and put into concentration camps. This was a terrible time period, Densho shows and allows us to explore those court cases and what really surprised me was that the Japanese were determined to get out peacefully and prove to the U.S. that they are on their side. Even though the U.S. continued to refuse they kept trying and never gave up.
Japanese Americans were targeted in the United States because they thought they had ties to the Japanese during World War 2. They thought that they were spying on the United States and giving the Japanese the information. Japanese Americans were arrested based on their position. For instance, heads of a Japanese Association branch or priests at Buddhist temples. They usually weren't arrested for what they did (if anything).
The part of this that stick to me after reading from the website is the fact that most of the people in the internment camps were put there simply because of their race. Executive order 9066 never said anything about anyone's race, but people who were given the authority to choose who was sent away from home to the internment camps described by the website only chose people who were Japanese, so just being Japanese is all it would take to make someone a threat.
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