During the mid 1900’s, Japan was growing into a powerful empire. The Japanese started to take over the Chinese mainland, Manchuria, around the late 1930’s. When many Japanese immigrated to America, primarily West Coast, many were found living in the states. As World War Two was a started to rise, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii happened by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. In February 19, 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt, on his third term, authorized Executive Order 9066 where anyone of Japanese ancestry are sent to internment camps. Internment camps were where the Japanese built their houses inside of the camps during World War Two. With security and economics being a factor, racism was the main influence of Japanese internment.
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For instance, “If all the Japs were removed tomorrow, we'd never miss them in two weeks, because the white farmers can take over and produce everything the Jap grows. And we don't want them back when the war ends, either.” (Grodzins). With the Americans, many thought that the Japanese were being selfish and taking the jobs which rightfully belong to the white men. Many of the Japanese would accept the low pay to make a living for their wives and children. The jobs would lessen for the white men because of the Japanese that accepted the low income pay that it was suggested. The Japanese had undersell crops at a lower price than the white man can. If the Japanese would not be removed from the fields, a chance of an economic war would occur. Henceforth, economics factored in as one of the reason for internment camps for the …show more content…
As an illustration, a cartoon drawn called “Maybe only alley cats, but Jeepers! a hell of alot of ‘em” by Dr. Seuss was shown as racial discrimination to the Japanese. Seuss drew this for anti-Japanese since he did not like the Japanese. The cartoon was drawn as the Japanese as cats, who were sneaky and the American as the big bird trying to protect the fence from the Japanese. With the cats in the Japs alley, they were kept away from the birds on the other side of the fence that isolates the Japanese from the American families. Japanese were isolated for a reason being of racism. The creation of the Japs Alley in the cartoon represent as an internment from racial
For instance, “If all the Japs were removed tomorrow, we'd never miss them in two weeks, because the white farmers can take over and produce everything the Jap grows. And we don't want them back when the war ends, either.” (Grodzins). With the Americans, many thought that the Japanese were being selfish and taking the jobs which rightfully belong to the white men. Many of the Japanese would accept the low pay to make a living for their wives and children. The jobs would lessen for the white men because of the Japanese that accepted the low income pay that it was suggested. The Japanese had undersell crops at a lower price than the white man can. If the Japanese would not be removed from the fields, a chance of an economic war would occur. Henceforth, economics factored in as one of the reason for internment camps for the …show more content…
As an illustration, a cartoon drawn called “Maybe only alley cats, but Jeepers! a hell of alot of ‘em” by Dr. Seuss was shown as racial discrimination to the Japanese. Seuss drew this for anti-Japanese since he did not like the Japanese. The cartoon was drawn as the Japanese as cats, who were sneaky and the American as the big bird trying to protect the fence from the Japanese. With the cats in the Japs alley, they were kept away from the birds on the other side of the fence that isolates the Japanese from the American families. Japanese were isolated for a reason being of racism. The creation of the Japs Alley in the cartoon represent as an internment from racial