Racism In Japanese Internment Camps Essay

When my friend and I walked on the street of Alabama, pedestrians who passed us muttered words such as Asian or weirdo to each other. These showed some people’s belief that they are superior to others. Racism is the idea which one race believes that it is better than the other and segregation or discrimination is presented. An example of racism is a bus only for Whites, people from other races cannot sit on the bus. Racism and discrimination between different groups of people led to shameful and melancholy events in the history of mankind such as the Holocaust and Japanese Internment, which made thousands and millions of people suffer from brutality. The Holocaust was an event which pure racism led to a hideous massacre of six million Jewish people by the Nazi Germany, those people also …show more content…
This event occurred because of Japan’s bombing on Pearl Harbor, a land from United States. 120000 Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes which they never committed bad things. Life in internment camps were rather unpleasant. First of all, Japanese lived in animal stalls and they were fenced off by barbed wires. Furthermore, they did not possess privacy and the temperature change was dramatic. If they got too close to the fences, they would be shot. In the story Evacuation Order No.19, the character Mrs. Hayashi needed to leave her home, along with her two children because of the internment. In the end of the story, the narrator described the family’s life after the internment. As they were taken away from their home, the furniture would be gone. For example, the motor would be missing from the laundry machine, the sunroom, which they kept many properties, would be empty. Racism affected innocent people in a negative way. It brought people away from their homes to nasty places and took away their