Fear is accredited of causing many important decisions based on the premiss of discomfort. Discomfort is a fearful topic, because it threatens the way in which people live. This When fear is instilled into a society, that society would do everything possible to bury that fear, and replaced it with comfort. During World War II fear struck American society. After the attack on Pearl Harbor the United States government instilled fear of Japan, including Japanese Americans, on the American society. This fear fueled the decision to created Japanese American interment camps. Although this fear of the Japanese made it possible to implement these internment camps, American society still opposed immoral cruelty. The interment process was cruel to many
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The truth behind her pictures is that Japanese Americans worked on the farm, served in the military, and attended American schools. Though Lange includes all of these true depictions, she leaves out the social and political views on Japanese Americans, which were heavily based on race. In Okihiro’s essay he talks about how Americans did not like how Japanese immigrants were taking jobs away from Americans. These views on the Japanese progressed, and started to use the war as an excuse. These view progressed to the point that the FBI said, “it is said, and no doubt with considerable truth, that every Japanese in the United States who can read and write is a member of the Japanese intelligence system.” This is an example of the social views of the time, and how Americans started to racially profile the Japanese. There was also a political side to the view of the Japanese. President Roosevelt even states, “What arrangements and plans have been made relative to concentration camps in the Hawaiian Islands for dangerous or undesirable aliens or services in the event of a national emergency?” Prior to the evacuation of Japanese American, this statement by the president was not the only measure taken by the government. The United States government started making a list of potential enemies, which include the majoring of …show more content…
Lange show pictures of Japanese Americans smiling while waiting to be processed. She showed the Internees getting off clean busses with cases of personal belonging, when in reality it wasn't like this. Okihiro explains that the round up process was purposely brutal. He talks about how Internees were stripped of there personal belongings a forced to leave their homes. Okihiro mentions Yasutaro Soga’s testimony. Soga was one of the Japanese American Internees, and he said that “he was half-carried up a flight of stairs and pushed suddenly into a room and it disquieting darkness.” Soga also mentions that this process was brutal, and the atmosphere was bloodthirsty. He's says that the military police would kill if the Internees moved. These accounts were just in the immigration centers, and the Internees were not even sent to the camps yet. Lange’s depictions of the transportation to the camps were also false. An account from a San Franciscan minister, Yoshiaki Fukuda, sates that “A gloomy atmosphere prevailed on the train.” His account continues to state the poor conditions on the trains to the camps, saying that guard with rifles were on each side of the train ready to shoot if necessary. The round up of the Internees were hidden by the pictures taken by Dorothea
The truth behind her pictures is that Japanese Americans worked on the farm, served in the military, and attended American schools. Though Lange includes all of these true depictions, she leaves out the social and political views on Japanese Americans, which were heavily based on race. In Okihiro’s essay he talks about how Americans did not like how Japanese immigrants were taking jobs away from Americans. These views on the Japanese progressed, and started to use the war as an excuse. These view progressed to the point that the FBI said, “it is said, and no doubt with considerable truth, that every Japanese in the United States who can read and write is a member of the Japanese intelligence system.” This is an example of the social views of the time, and how Americans started to racially profile the Japanese. There was also a political side to the view of the Japanese. President Roosevelt even states, “What arrangements and plans have been made relative to concentration camps in the Hawaiian Islands for dangerous or undesirable aliens or services in the event of a national emergency?” Prior to the evacuation of Japanese American, this statement by the president was not the only measure taken by the government. The United States government started making a list of potential enemies, which include the majoring of …show more content…
Lange show pictures of Japanese Americans smiling while waiting to be processed. She showed the Internees getting off clean busses with cases of personal belonging, when in reality it wasn't like this. Okihiro explains that the round up process was purposely brutal. He talks about how Internees were stripped of there personal belongings a forced to leave their homes. Okihiro mentions Yasutaro Soga’s testimony. Soga was one of the Japanese American Internees, and he said that “he was half-carried up a flight of stairs and pushed suddenly into a room and it disquieting darkness.” Soga also mentions that this process was brutal, and the atmosphere was bloodthirsty. He's says that the military police would kill if the Internees moved. These accounts were just in the immigration centers, and the Internees were not even sent to the camps yet. Lange’s depictions of the transportation to the camps were also false. An account from a San Franciscan minister, Yoshiaki Fukuda, sates that “A gloomy atmosphere prevailed on the train.” His account continues to state the poor conditions on the trains to the camps, saying that guard with rifles were on each side of the train ready to shoot if necessary. The round up of the Internees were hidden by the pictures taken by Dorothea