in these camps were second hand generation Japanese which means they are Japanese but born in the US‚ and they are US citizens. This is called Nisei. [ (二世?‚ "second generation") is a Japanese-language term used in countries in North America and South America to specify the children born in the new country to Japanese-born immigrants (who are called Issei).] This shows how Roosevelt didn’t care about what people really were and just based them on looks. This also shows that Roosevelt wanted Japanese
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to attend school with white children. Over the next half century‚ further restrictions on immigration were implemented‚ many based on racist assumptions that immigrants were inassimilable and could not be Americanized. However‚ we see examples in Nisei Daughter‚ where the children like Monica and her siblings became Americanized and came to detest the strict Japanese culture their parents were raised in. this contradicts the assumption that immigrants would not assimilate. Continued pressure to
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Hisaye Yamamoto was a woman who experienced the shifts of society during a time where tensions were high. Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor‚ Yamamoto and her family were put into a Japanese concentration camp in southern California. Even though her circumstances were against her‚ she refused to stay silent and gave voice to those like her through her stories. In her work‚ “Wilshire Bus‚” Yamamoto tells a narrative of an incident between a drunk American man and a Chinese couple from the point
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Although we cannot compare the horrors of the Nazi Concentration camps to the American "Relocation Centers"‚ there are many similarities. Both of the groups of victims were of the minorities‚ and these cultures were somewhat of an enemy to the leader of their country. These groups (the Japanese in America nearly two thirds of which were American citizens‚ and the Jews‚ Gypsies‚ the Poles‚ Slovaks‚ Communists and other enemies of the state in Germany and Poland‚ many of which had served the very countries
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America holds itself as a ‘mighty force against discrimination‚’ but from slavery to police brutality‚ challenges must be brought up to this statement. During World War II Japanese American‚ citizens and immigrants‚ were forced from their homes and businesses into concentration camps.Although conditions were horrible and cruel‚ these camps are quite contrasting to the Nazi’s death camps. The U.S. downplayed the event and claimed the Japanese descendents were happy to cooperate with the decision.
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placed some 110‚000 persons of Japanese descent in protective custody. Two out of every three of these were American citizens by birth; one-third were aliens forbidden by law to be citizens. Included were three generations: Issei‚ or first-generation immigrants (aliens); Nisei‚ or second-generation (American-born citizens); and Sansei‚ or third-generation (American-born children of American-born parents). Within three months after removal from the west coast had been ordered‚ this entire group of
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since we continue to categorize‚ generalize and overreact. The fear‚ hatred and racism directed toward Japanese Americans came out in different ways. A primary example was that Americans assumed the Nisei (people of Japanese descent who were born‚ raised and were living in the U.S.)‚ Issei (Japanese who were born in Japan‚ but were living in the U.S.)‚ and the enemy Japanese were all the same with respect to their loyalty for the U.S. Many saw no differences between these three groups. This
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Chapter 25 Notes Hard Facts: Manchuria: Japan takes over the providence of Manchuria‚ China‚ in 1931. Due to this the League of Nations began to fail. Shortly after Japan withdrew from the leave and took over the rest of China. Due to this the threat in Asia and the Pacific increased. This was the first event leading up to the war. Benito Mussolini: Italian Fascist who became dictator. He supported the World War and joined forces with Nazi Germany to for the Rome-Berlin Axis. Nazis: National
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Japanese Internment: US vs. Canada As they were forced out of their own homes‚ uprooted from the land that they had contributed so dearly into making their own‚ the Japanese found themselves as victims of their own state—Red-flagged for espionage and sabotage in the North American states of Canada and the United States of America (US). These neighboring countries handled the same situation rather differently‚ and despite the many similarities between Japanese internment in the US and Canada during
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their lives until the end of the camps. Both authors are Japanese Americans who experience internment camps‚ but contradict the life in the camps. The article‚ “Suspicion” by T.A Frail‚ writes about how the internment camps had an effect on the Issei‚ Nisei‚ and Sansei as focusing on photographs make his point of the change and acceptance of the internment camps that had an effect on the internees‚ more effective. The article includes an interview of Jane Yanagi‚ who had difficulty with the aftermath
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