Was Internment Wrong
According to Dictionary.com, Internment is a prison camp for the confinement of aliens, prisoners of war, and political prisoners. There are many different opinions on whether or not internment was the right choice after the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941, because even though the Japanese did the bombing, that doesn't mean that every Japanese American become a criminal and gets looked upon with suspicion. Even though there was hardly enough verified evidence for the opinion that's pro-internment, many people still believe that it was the right choice to do. This essay is going to show you both sides of the story and prove that internment was the wrong decision to make.
There are many horror stories about the life in internment
camps after the bombing. The one thing that they all have in common is that they were all sent to a camp with “deplorable conditions and multiple families sharing austere, barracks-like quarters” (Morelock p#11). This quotation elucidates the dreadful accommodations that these innocent people had to live in every day.
Comparatively, many individuals say that these conditions were OK because it was better than those of military personnel. To illuminate, they are stating that it is okay to “ live in accommodations where it wasn't insulated, no cooking, or plumbing facilities. Where beds were cots, toilets work on partitioned, and the internees lived on $0.45 a day” (Morelock p#11). This shows us that these people were being treated with disrespect and not seen as equals anymore because of the bombing.
On the contrary, other people think internment was necessary in order to “prevent uncontrolled acts of mob violence, and likely save lives and prevent physical injuries to a mindlessly enraged white population “(morelock, p#4) just to clarify, they are saying that internment was a necessary action in order to save the white population.
These internees have not only suffered from depression, overwhelming feelings of helplessness, and severe insecurity, but from physical and emotional distress during the internment. While the Japanese Americans were in their hazardous environment internees were shot and killed by the armed guards who were supposed to be protecting them. This statement illuminates the detrimental Behavior the internees experience day after everyday.
In the end, all of this displays the horrendous acts that were committed while these uncorrupted and immaculate individuals were held hostage at these camps. The moral of the story is that putting the Japanese-Americans into internment camps was the most fallacious and erroneous idea ever. Now instead of repeating our mistakes like our ancestors did we should learn from them and make better pronouncements than they did.
There are many horror stories about the life in internment
camps after the bombing. The one thing that they all have in common is that they were all sent to a camp with “deplorable conditions and multiple families sharing austere, barracks-like quarters” (Morelock p#11). This quotation elucidates the dreadful accommodations that these innocent people had to live in every day.
Comparatively, many individuals say that these conditions were OK because it was better than those of military personnel. To illuminate, they are stating that it is okay to “ live in accommodations where it wasn't insulated, no cooking, or plumbing facilities. Where beds were cots, toilets work on partitioned, and the internees lived on $0.45 a day” (Morelock p#11). This shows us that these people were being treated with disrespect and not seen as equals anymore because of the bombing.
On the contrary, other people think internment was necessary in order to “prevent uncontrolled acts of mob violence, and likely save lives and prevent physical injuries to a mindlessly enraged white population “(morelock, p#4) just to clarify, they are saying that internment was a necessary action in order to save the white population.
These internees have not only suffered from depression, overwhelming feelings of helplessness, and severe insecurity, but from physical and emotional distress during the internment. While the Japanese Americans were in their hazardous environment internees were shot and killed by the armed guards who were supposed to be protecting them. This statement illuminates the detrimental Behavior the internees experience day after everyday.
In the end, all of this displays the horrendous acts that were committed while these uncorrupted and immaculate individuals were held hostage at these camps. The moral of the story is that putting the Japanese-Americans into internment camps was the most fallacious and erroneous idea ever. Now instead of repeating our mistakes like our ancestors did we should learn from them and make better pronouncements than they did.