how i feel about this week post is sad. it is crazy how they just got placed in the camps like they was not human. For more than 30 years, few faces in Juneau, Alaska, were as familiar as that of Shonosuke Tanaka. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, the hungry miners, longshoremen and fishermen of the frontier town piled into the greasy spoon owned by Tanaka—who had arrived in the Territory of Alaska’s capital in 1907—to chow down on everything from sourdough pancakes to sweet ands sour spareribs. seeing things like that it makes me wonder how they sleep at night. also The U.S. internment camps were overcrowded and provided poor living conditions. The living conditions of Japanese American internment camps were very hard for the Japanese because of housing, food, and the daily experiences Japanese went through. Japanese citizens were give approximately 48 hours to evacuate their homes, and they were only allowed to take few possessions. The Japanese where treated as if they where animals if not worse. Families where torn apart and lives where ruined for years to come. Not to mention the mental illnesses it causes being ripped away from your home and community, it caused severe ptsd, depression, and anxiety. It further perpetrated the racism Asians faced in America and is still instilled into some minds of Americans today. Many Japanese people came to America for the freedom and to provide a better future for their offspring and families back home to be treated in such a atrocious way in the “land of the free” is very hypocritical in my option. The reparations which included 20,000 for each camp survivor is nothing for what the Japanese had to deal with in The United States.
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Week 14 Reflection
What I learned about this week post was a lot. This week is about the Vietnam war now of course in high school we learned about this b...
Hello there, i like how you picked a specific part of the war and focused on that. The Japanese were treated poorly and some say the US internment camps were similar to the Germans. I for one am appalled that a country so integrated as ours is, still chose to be prejudice to a group of people just because of the war. I like how you broke it down and put your emotion into it, this was a great post.
ReplyDeleteHey this was a very good blog I loved how you got straight to the point. The way they treated the Japanese people was very wrong I could only imagine getting separated from my family for no reason. They acted as if they weren’t human and that wasn’t right. Its crazy how to this day they are looked upon as if they are not humans like everyone else. I hope one day all this changes.
ReplyDeleteHey Ivan! This was a great post to read. It had a very somber tone to it but I was still drawn to your whole reflection. It was communicated precisely and you made sure to get straight to the point about what went down in the war. What also caught my attention in your post was the focus put on the the way that the Japanese American were treated even after the war was over.
ReplyDeleteHey Ivan! What we learned this week also makes me sad. Millions of innocent people were murdered and killed in the cross-fire of the war and they did not deserve that. Many Japanese-Americans were stripped of their rights and were not treated as American citizens which is very disheartening.
ReplyDeleteHey Ivan, I loved your post as it was very focused. You got into detail without over analyzing and not going into another topics. Great post!
ReplyDeleteWhats up Ivan!! I loved how you were so in tune with this weeks topic! I learned even more from reading your post! I really hate how our country was honestly built off of racism. it honestly sucks.
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