Monday, November 7, 2011

What are some ways the Japanese-Americans dealt with discrimination in the US before/during/after the internment camps?

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  1. Great question.

    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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