Monday, March 2, 2020
"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 Wed., Mar. 4th, 2020.
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I thought that it was very interesting how they just kicked them out of the house and were only willing to pay max of $17.50 for nice china. I don't understand why she was throwing all the plates on the ground when she could've kept them until the next opportunities to sell them unless she didn't have enough room to take them then I understand. It is just very shocking on how they sent innocent people to pick up everything and move to somewhere else.
I think the amount of fear in her voice and in how she describes everything that happens is defiantly something that sticks out to me, because this time period was very hard. And the whole world was just in fear and didn't exactly understand what was going on.
One of the ideas that surprised me was that these people are taken advantage of when they are forced to move and the idea that they would rather no one have it than someone else have it. This is demonstrated when the narrator’s mom smashes the china instead of selling it for a very low price. Also the idea that these children feared other children even though they never attacked them surprised me.
Because of the horrors of the holocost going on in Europe, WW2 is often consumed by what happened overseas, forcing many people to overlook exactly what was going on in Ame4rica and what happened to Japanese Americans in the west during that time. Both the book and the website illustrate the need for everyone to remember the wrong that had been done to American citizens and realize that America is not innocent.
I think that back in this time we were not being fair at all. We forced families out of their houses and sent them to internment camps because of an overseas enemy, send any U.S citizen to a random spot and making them sell their stuff is not right. Whites were scared of Japanese people just because of a war that we were fighting, the President said that he was moving them for their protection but it really was just to make sure there were no spies among the Japanese-Americans.
I think a deal is a deal other than losing something without pay.Also I think that she should have kept the valuables and it is just corrupt to be kicked out of youe own place.It was not right for them to be kicked out of their house with force.
This portion of American history consisted of a lot of stereotyping and segregation regarding physical appearance and heritage. This was because the country was very diverse and information took lots of time to travel. Because of this, Americans became very small minded and created opinions based on influence from their family and the local area. This made people very like minded and they didn't change that biase. This relates to Densho because many Americans believed that all Japanese people shouldn't be granted the rights of an American citizen, even if born here, because of the war in the pacific.
A trend I saw is these people being forced into positions lesser then everyone else, simply because of their ethnicity. Racial superiority seemed to be a reoccurring idea in history during this time. The site states, "The general consensus of those agencies was that the Japanese American community as a whole posed little threat to the U.S. should war with Japan take place." But despite this, they still decided to intern these people. It also states, "Japanese Americans were encouraged to move inland on their own, what the government called “voluntary evacuation.” Not surprisingly, leaders of other Western states objected, and this plan was called off after a mere 5,000 out of 110,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast had moved. Instead, the army’s Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA) quickly created fifteen “assembly centers” and two “reception centers” to house the Japanese Americans."
Some trends that I saw were unfair over-exaggeration of things that these Japanese Americans were forced into. First, they were forced out of their homes "voluntary evacuation" and then the camps they were put into overpriced simple tings like firewood for "$12 to $19 a month". The situation the Japanese Americans were put into was unfair and unconstitutional.
Something that's very striking to me about Japanese Internment Camps in the U.S. was the fact that Roosevelt had the urge to put them into place at all. Roosevelt was effectively erasing thousands of years of Japanese culture at this point by making everything as Americanized as it could be, and that shows just how scared America was at this point. The American government was so paranoid that communism would spread to the country that they used frankly disgusting ways of trying to erase Japanese people completely.
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