Japanese Internment Camp Analysis

Journal #1: Americans? Patriotism? Values?

In many parts of America, there have been the controversy of who should be considered American. After listening to “Who is an American?” podcast by LatinoUSA, it brought attention to many listeners like myself of what it is meant to be an American. As stated in the podcast, “as identity begin to continue to evolve, many are left out of the picture”, in other words, there are many identities that may once been a part of a specific culture, but as time progress, they may not affiliate themselves with that culture anymore. A great example would be China and Taiwan. Taiwan was once part of China; however, they decided to separate themselves from China and become a country themselves, yet speaking
This issue was the Japanese Internment Camp. Hundred thousands of Japanese were forced to relocate away from their homes and incarcerated into a camp. That being said, more than half of the hundred thousands of Japanese were legal citizens of the United States; however, because of their Japanese blood, they are seen as the enemy of the United States. To summarize, more than hundred thousands of Japanese that were citizens of the United States had their right(s) stripped away because they were Japanese. This clearly did not set a good representation of who is an American. It was basically unfair treatment because of race. There have been many of these cases in the
Not only were Japanese treated unfairly by the government of the United States, so were the Chinese. Like many immigrants, the Chinese wanted to come to the America to start a new life with their family; however, things got out of hand. Years later, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed and many Chinese were blocked off from coming into America. Of course, this Exclusion Act was passed because of many Chinese were taking jobs away from others because they wanted to provide cheaper labor. Thus, this doesn’t seem fair for only the Chinese because who is hired really depends on the boss and if the boss chooses Chinese because of cheaper labor, shouldn’t something else be done. I mean like the Chinese only wanted to leave and start a better life with their family. What I wonder is if America is the so-called the ideal country which people call “the