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I agree with all of the above statements but I feel even more strongly about the internment camps. While I agree with what kokeefe said that the internment camps were different from concentration camps, how Americans de-humanized the Japanese was similar. Japanese-Americans became a number much like a test rat in a labratory, they were organized by numbers and letters and were not allowed outside of the high fences, much like a cage. They had poor shelter, food, and were watched everyday including giving the Japanese a bedtime of 10:00, and thinking it was okay. I think there should be a museum representing the stories and lives of the Japanese who were forced into these internment camps much like the Holocaust museum so more Americans can understand what we did as a nation in World War II. -Megan W. | I agree with all of the above statements but I feel even more strongly about the internment camps. While I agree with what kokeefe said that the internment camps were different from concentration camps, how Americans de-humanized the Japanese was similar. Japanese-Americans became a number much like a test rat in a labratory, they were organized by numbers and letters and were not allowed outside of the high fences, much like a cage. They had poor shelter, food, and were watched everyday including giving the Japanese a bedtime of 10:00, and thinking it was okay. I think there should be a museum representing the stories and lives of the Japanese who were forced into these internment camps much like the Holocaust museum so more Americans can understand what we did as a nation in World War II. -Megan W. | ||
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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 | ||
==Women of Wartime Los Alamos, Ruth Marshak== | ==Women of Wartime Los Alamos, Ruth Marshak== | ||
