The "Good War"
Blog written by Grace Deck
When reading these documents, I was astounded by the level of miss treatment to Japanese in America. Franklin D. Roosevelt had issued the order for no.9066 for the Japanese American to be put in prison camps. The unconstitutional way and laws were broken when this order went to infect. People were unlawfully held again their will, but still, no one could go against the order. A young Japanese American Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was at a party when the attack on pearl harbor happened and the treatment after. This was a frighting time in Yoshinaga life. His family had to destroy books with the Japanese language and hide any of their culture, because of the belief that if the police seen any in your house, you will be taken to prison. To me, it was sad to see how people would label others that were nice to them Jap-lovers and the Japanese were treated with distain. It was heart breaking to read about how they had moved to a small house about 16 x 20 feet for 7 people and were forced to sell or store their belongings. These Japanese American could not express their feeling of unfairness, because of lack of privacy. The group was very unfairly treated and punished to the point of unmorally reason. The punish was very closely related to concentration camps. It seems as if history has a point in repeating itself with others being mistreated. How can we as a society, prevent any form of future concentration camps?
When studying history, it is evident that concentration camps are inhumane and intolerable. For example, the most prominent concentration camp was by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. His concentration camps tortured and killed countless Jewish people. I feel that the best way to prevent any future concentration camps is to start with the children. I strongly believe that if children are taught from the very beginning that all people are created equal and all people deserve love and respect, then we would be able to prevent concentration camps. But, it goes further than just teaching them, we as a society must show the children how to treat people with equality and we must treat the children with equality and respect as well. I believe this because the leaders of previous concentration camps throughout world history were raised poorly or had horrific life experiences that led them to hate other human beings enough to want to form a concentration camp. If we as a society were able to eliminate the hatred that's developed throughout time, then I believe we would be able to achieve the elimination of concentration camps. With this being said, we must start with the children because they are the future and we must as a society teach the future how to be compassionate of others.
ReplyDeleteConcentration camps were not only wrong they were unethical in almost every way imaginable. When talking about repeating history, this is something that we as a society should make a priority from happening again. I feel that the best way to prevent this from happening ever again is to show that this wasn't forgotten. If we, as a society can prevent people from forgetting these awful things, then it can help highlight the countless things that are wrong, unethical, and unjust about this. In my opinion, this reinforces the idea of how hatred toward other people or races does not result in anything good. If people have the ideology then concentration camps would not be an issue. So, when it comes down to "what can we do as a society", I feel the best approach is to teach and show the result of how this impacted not only the United States History, but world history. It is also important to never let people forget how this sense of hatred and fear impacted millions of people before our time.
ReplyDeleteOrder no. 9066 issued by Franklin D. Roosevelt shows the brutal war efforts during World War II. The United States was fully at war in 1942 when order 9066 was signed. While at war with global powers like Germany and Japan, the United States villainized them as much as possible. The problem with villainizing Japan is that common people begin to villainize anyone who is Japanese or even Asian of any kind. Racism was not uncommon in the years prior to the 1940s. Recently society in the United States and, even to some degree, globally racism is not as generally accepted. Social shunting of racism helps specific races from being villainized, especially from being put into camps such as those Franklin D. Roosevelt created.
ReplyDeleteThe Executive Order No. 9066 signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt led to the internment of over 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, a clear violation of their civil liberties. FDR authorized the camps to be made and for the person in charge to handle them. I would say to prevent any form of future concentration camps, society must uphold the principles of equal protection and due process under the law for all individuals, education and awareness about historical atrocities, and we must promote compassion, empathy, and understanding towards all individuals.
ReplyDeleteIt goes without saying that concentration camps hosted some of the most atrocious acts of hate. The catalyst for concentration camps is hate. 6 million jews were killed during the Holocaust because of the Hatred of one cruel man. There was plenty of hate happening in America during WWII. This hate was especially directed to Japanese people living in America and Americans of Japanese descent. Because of this fear and hatred of Japanese and Japanese Americans living in America, FDR signed an executive order that forced 12,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans into concentration camps. Granted, these camps were not as bad as any of the German concentration camps, but this still does not excuse this level of hatred. The best way to prevent concentration camp type events from happening in the future is to learn from humanities past mistakes. If people can be more knowledgeable about the atrocities of concentration camps, then maybe these acts of hate can be prevented. While this will not guarantee that concentration camps won’t be used again due to the levels of evil in this world, maybe it could help.
ReplyDeleteThe Executive Order No. 9066 that was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt forced 12,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese living in America into concentration camps. Concentration camps were terrible and extremely unethical. At this time racism was not uncommon. The best way to prevent this type of problem from happening in the future is by treating everyone equally and learning from the mistakes of the past.
ReplyDeleteThe best way to prevent this is to view everyone as equal. Whether they have a different economy or different lifestyle we should always have each other's best interest in mind. In world war 2 we were able to end the Jewish concentration camps by teaming up together and taking on the common enemy. The best thing we can truly do is learn to be better than how we were before and come together as a society and as humans.
ReplyDeleteThe Executive Order No. 9066 removed 120,000 people from Japanese decent and put them into concentration camps. This camp was not as bad as a Nazi concentration camp; however, these camps were still very common and wrong at the time. The best way to prevent future camps from happening is by learning from history. We need to keep promoting equality so it is instilled into everybody that acts of hatred are wrong. Not just in race but also gender. We must come to an
ReplyDeletegeneral understanding that everyone needs to be treated equally, so that future generations will carry on promoting equality.