BEFORE: When Japanese people first began immigrating to the United State, they could not speak the language and didn't know American culture which led to a lot of misunderstandings. I think that those misunderstandings played a big factor in the discrimination that existed before.
DURING: Once Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the discrimination stemmed more out of fear and now non-Japanese Americans felt that they had the justification to be discriminatory to all Japanese Americans.
AFTER: Even after WW2, the discrimination continued because of the built in fear/anger/misunderstandings, but also because generations were passing down their distrust to their children despite there being no reason for doing so since it wasn't Japanese people as a whole that bombed Pearl Harbor, but only a small group.
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ReplyDeleteBEFORE:
When Japanese people first began immigrating to the United State, they could not speak the language and didn't know American culture which led to a lot of misunderstandings. I think that those misunderstandings played a big factor in the discrimination that existed before.
DURING:
Once Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the discrimination stemmed more out of fear and now non-Japanese Americans felt that they had the justification to be discriminatory to all Japanese Americans.
AFTER:
Even after WW2, the discrimination continued because of the built in fear/anger/misunderstandings, but also because generations were passing down their distrust to their children despite there being no reason for doing so since it wasn't Japanese people as a whole that bombed Pearl Harbor, but only a small group.