A JAP Is A Jap Analysis

“It makes no difference whether a Japanese is theoretically a citizen. He is still Japanese. Giving him a scrap of paper won’t change him... A Jap is a Jap.” General John L. DeWitt, the commander of the Western Defense Command, changed the lives of approximately 120,000 people, all of them Japanese. Even if a Japanese was considered a citizen of the United States, it was overlooked, and only their ethnicity or heritage mattered. I find that upsetting for it seems like the United States just wanted protection for only their people. However, the ironic fact is that some of their own people are Japanese. It makes me fear that one day during my lifetime, another World War will break out. And let’s just say Taiwan, where my parents grew up, decided to bomb the
The Americans were guile by having a sugar-coated notice about how all the Japanese, living on the West Coast, have to go to a “temporary residence”. Even after they are set free, people start to exclude them with signs saying, “NO JAPS WANTED” and sometimes they even “refused burial in some hometown cemeteries” for the Japanese American soldiers that fought in the war. I get angered seeing how mistreated the Japanese were and how with one new incident, their lives are changed all the way around. There was no respect for them. The Japanese didn’t even seem to resist the Americans because only “eight were killed by guards at various camps whose orders were to shoot anyone trying to escape” and almost everyone went to the camps. They let the Americans displace them from their home and then they let them still treat them with disrespect. There were no stories about how the Japanese tried to stop this or any sign that they tried to run away from the camps. For example, when the African Americans were oppressed, there were many times where they fought for their equality. The impression I get from the Japanese and other Asian races are that they are a nation that doesn’t have a loud