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I remember learning about Japanese internment camps when i was young being just totally confused by it. In part, because it did seem eerily similar to what had been going on in Nazi Germany, as many others had mentioned. This passage really brings out a lot of the degradation that i imagine many Japanese-Americans must have felt to have been controlled and suspected and discriminated against because of what was for many, including the author of this piece, a relatively distant ancestry. She'd grown up being an "American", and now she was alienated from that identity without really being able to identify with the "Japanese" for which she was interned. I think that the author's discussion of the issei and nisei sort of gets at that struggle to pin down an identity and differences between generational reactions. -Erin B | I remember learning about Japanese internment camps when i was young being just totally confused by it. In part, because it did seem eerily similar to what had been going on in Nazi Germany, as many others had mentioned. This passage really brings out a lot of the degradation that i imagine many Japanese-Americans must have felt to have been controlled and suspected and discriminated against because of what was for many, including the author of this piece, a relatively distant ancestry. She'd grown up being an "American", and now she was alienated from that identity without really being able to identify with the "Japanese" for which she was interned. I think that the author's discussion of the issei and nisei sort of gets at that struggle to pin down an identity and differences between generational reactions. -Erin B | ||
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| + | I think it says a lot about the meaning of Japanese internment camps to the Japanese who were in them when Monica Sone says, "Maybe I wasn't considered an American anymore." (Page 201) Just that mere sentence probably sums up the thoughts of the Japanese Americans at the time. Many of the Japanese were not immigrants but were born in America, making them citizens. Besides the fact that the government's decision to use internment camps resembled the Nazi labor/concentration camps, the government was more or less imprisoning its own citizens. What happened to all the rights American citizens had? They just simply overlooked. Was there nobody in the government who thought that this was wrong in so many ways? I understand the American fear because of the war and because of the attack on Pearl Harbor, but Germany was a watching enemy at the time also, but German-American citizens weren't sent to internment camps. The internment camps just seem inconsistent with what America stood for. I thought it was interesting how Monica Sone talked about the "wire fence." She says, "Of one thing I was sure. The wire fence was real. I no longer had the right to walk out of it. It was also because some people had little faith in the ideas and ideals of democracy." (p. 201). I think it was extremely sad that at this point in time, Monica and other Japanese/Japanese Americans were not proud to be Americans or be in America, and honestly I don't blame them. -- Alex M. | ||
==Women of Wartime Los Alamos, Ruth Marshak== | ==Women of Wartime Los Alamos, Ruth Marshak== | ||
