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Japanese internment camps were a horrible way of protecting the Japanese and Japanese-American from white pedestrians it violated their privacy, and a majority of them were against it. although the government claims they took great care of the Japanese, Japanese-Americans a big percentage of the victims mentioned their rights were violated for example: freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and right to assemble. they could not practice religion, for example the Shinto religion and they encouraged them to believe in Christianity. they were denied the guaranteed of freedom of speech and prohibited their native language which was Japanese and encouraged them to use English as their main language. they had a
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many derogatory words were used against them and everything that came out of the white people were negative opinions and slurs that went strongly to the Japanese and Japanese-American mostly towards to the Japanese immigrants because they thought the Japanese came here to take away jobs and spy on them and the label of being a spy for the Japanese government was a strong opinion and that one statement ruined the image of all Japanese and of Japanese decent. “there were many stores that would put up racist posters saying jap traps and we do not serve japs” this is a perfect example in which discrimination was in use they were treated as if they were disloyal to there country. Robert fuchigami mentions how when they would say the pledge of allegiance they would shout out the phrase “justice for all” because they clearly wanted to state that they are people too and also that they deserve equal protection of the law. it was a pain for them because when they were given food they would give them for example “liver and onions” but Robert fuchigami mentioned that you either you eat or go hungry because there is no other way of surviving. many …show more content…
people were very aware of their action and opinion about the Japanese, and Japanese-Americans living in the same neighborhoods as them and they had a huge problem with that because they did not want to share their neighborhoods or schools or even the same restaurants because of their specific race they were made the criminals by one action which was the pearl harbor but that did not give them the right to build or construct a whole new cite were they can take them and keep them away from there family. while the Japanese and of Japanese decent were in held in the internment camps many anti- Japanese groups were formed up and down the west coast. they would have protesters and anti Japanese groups would make schemes and posters to persuade people that Japanese immigrants and of decent were backstabber sand government spies sent to make there crops and other farming industrialization get ruined. many of the camp survivors would compare the anti Japanese crews as to Hitler and or the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) this was very accurate description about the anti Japanese crew and how violent and racist people the were this was one major act that the Japanese immigrants and of Japanese decent had to face when arriving to the united states and they had even the bigger hard time when they were trying to get back to their homes and original locations. sometimes if the

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