Sunday, June 1, 2014
Japanese interment
I found his story interesting, especially his answers to his questions about his childhood in the camps. How being enclosed in a space like that for so long became normal. They developed a life in the interment camps, since they had all their possessions taken away from them, the Japanese-Americans were forced to start over in these camps. He was such a inde man but I also found it interesting that in the camps most of the people didn't blame FDR for putting them in the camps. Most of them understood that the situation was difficult, they just found it unfair that the people thought all these AMERICAN citizens were spies for the Japanese government. All in all I enjoyed his presentation.
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I can relate to you when being surprised after hearing that many Japanese Americans didn't blame FDR for interning them. Although it wasn't solely his decision to intern the Japanese Americans, he consciously made the decision to sign the 9066 document. Overall, it was very sophisticated of them to go against the natural emotions of holding a grudge on FDR, and instead blame the advisors and U.S. paranoia for internment.
ReplyDeleteI too thought it was interesting, especially when he talked about how when they were all released they didn't have a home anymore so they were almost taken away all their rights and their homes.
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