Essay on Japanese Discrimination

Should the government place Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast in internment camps? The United States of America has just gone through a depression with many difficulties and is now facing trouble with the Axis Powers. The U.S cut iron and oil trade with Japan and this resulted in Japan bombing Pearl Harbor. With that done, President Roosevelt has announced that the U.S has entered World War II. Apart from those troubles, the U.S is now facing problems with its own citizens. The American people want Japanese-Americans to be put into internment camps for the remainder of the War. In my opinion, I don’t think it is fair for people to go to jail without having done anything wrong. But I do understand the way they feel, it seems logical that Japanese people would stay loyal to their country and that the Americans would fear their betrayal and the possible rebellion they might cause. But, the Japanese during this time must have had the same amount of fear as the Americans, they were treated badly and despised by everyone and could have been arrested. But besides that, my stance on this is that if the Japanese-Americans start rebelling in the U.S then they should be treated the same way as any other person because everyone should have equal rights.
First of all, it makes sense for U.S citizens to start fearing Japanese betrayal and invasion. They were under a lot of tension with World War II going on at the other side of the world. They probably just didn’t want any trouble and to prevent it, many of them came to the conclusion that arresting the Japanese would remove their problems. But the thing is that there were no problems in the country with the Japanese, they were loyal to the U.S instead of their homeland. Americans feared their betrayal just like any other human being, because when someone doesn’t know what something is they immediately feel fear. The Americans were unaware if the Japanese would react and cause chaos so many of them came to the