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and is being forced to go to internment camps based on her Japanese heritage. How ever she also shows that she is American by saying that her "favorite food are hot dogs." Hot dogs being a typical American food. She also mentions how she "felt funny using chopsticks," this shows how she recognizes that the government is stereotyping the Japanese Americans. She shows that she is not the stereotype that people associate with people of Japanese descent by her…

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…

was, “Congress declared war on the Empire of Japan amid outrage at the attack. Japanese Americans from the West Coast were sent to internment camps for the duration of the war.” U.S citizens came together to get vengeance on Japan’s empire, this was called Remember Pearl Harbor (wikipedia.org). “Two months after the attack, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which initiated an evacuation of all Japanese-Americans from West Coast of the US’’(fortune.com). “The USS Arizona Memorial,…

provided some commercial and cultural contact. The publication of Western book in Japan was not allowed, but the books in Japanese discussing Western advances were available. There was really no relation with the West until the middle of the 1850’s. This was when Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo Harbour. He opened trade relations with the islands of Japan. The Japanese were worried about accepting any other culture because they felt like they would go against their own. During this…

In The Trump Effect, and How It Spreads the New York Times argues that Donald Trump’s message of exclusion and hatred is not an anomaly for the Republican Party. The author claims that Trump’s boisterous message exposes the true feelings of the Republican Party. In the article, the author brings up a number of points explaining how Republican governors are taking on Trump’s idea of creating a faith based wall around the country. The governors are using their position to close borders to…

The War of the Japanese The day was December 7, 1941. Unlit Christmas lights are strung on green palm trees and the day is just beginning for the navy base in Pearl Harbor. But then time took over. At 7:55 AM, Japanese fighter planes carrying deadly bombs flew in, ready to destroy the American naval base. In as little as two hours, there were four battleships destroyed and four more damaged. Dozens of more heroic war stories were born. And America had entered the second war of the world. THE…

World War II. In high school and middle school the subject of the Pearl Harbor attack was a little vague compared to what I know now. We only learned the events leading up to the attack and what happen after the attack. We never learned what the Japanese Americans had to go through and how they were discriminated against. They forced to leave their houses, business, farms, schools, and jobs to go into a refugee camp due to Americans fearing the unknown. Ted Talk of George Takei was really…

letters on top- Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry” (117). I love this line because with all the businesses being taken over by the white people, this is a metaphor for all that is left of the Japanese in these communities, just the memory of their presentence. Then, slowly their houses were taken, and just like the notices nailed to the poles, all evidence of the Japanese faded. The evolution of the perspective white Americans had on the Japanese changed a lot after their…

On the night of 31 May – 1 June, we the people of Australia were lurched into WW2 which we had been immune from for so long. Over this weekend, there was a daring attempt by 3 Japanese midget submarines to infiltrate the partly constructed anti-submarine boom net and enter Sydney Harbour. The submarines which consisted of 2 crew members per vessel entered the harbour under orders to sink allied war ships. As soon as the first submarine was sighted anti-submarine guns on the shore and naval units…

19 February 1942. A total of 365 days have passed since the Japanese bombing of Darwin. Our now heavily populated thriving city of Townsville has transformed drastically from our once only main hub of Flinders Street. Many of us repeatedly question the Japanese and their motives behind their desire to bomb our golden country. Without a doubt, Japan has one of the strongest and loyal approaches to imperialism. We can only substitute Japan’s steel imperialism as an answer for their destructive…