CONCLUSION:
Fear only becomes a reality when we succumb to its lies. To educate is to reduce those lies. The Japanese Internment were martyrs for our modern civil liberties. This helps us learn from our past mistakes, otherwise many minorities would be prosecuted when it comes to international conflicts. No certain nationality should be racially profiled, or in other words discriminated against. The Japanese internment was a result of fueled hatred and a failure of authority figures to calm the people, but instead increase their paranoia. An American cabinet member, Harold Ickes of the interior have also concluded that “Not only were these
camps unconstitutional, but they were morally and ethically wrong. When our nation lets
fear and prejudice outweigh her good judgment is when our nation ceases to be
good. As a nation we stripped these people of their land, their possessions,
their freedoms, and their lives. Many were scarred emotionally and mentally and
never fully recovered.” Like today's international conflicts, certain ethnicity has always been discriminated against during time of war. If we had to lock up every Hispanic or Chinese person in the USA today because China or one of the South American country made a declaration of war, then we would have to abandon an entire state.
STACC : ENGLISH RESEARCH PROJECT
The purpose of
this site is to inform our young Americans of our dark history. The German Holocaust has taken the spotlight in American education, but the Japanese American Internment has taken the backseat. Many school curriculums
have ignore the development of the Japanese Internment, and today we are here
to remind Americans the events that transpired. In order for us as a nation to
not repeat the past mistakes. Even though the Japanese Internment is not as
horrific as the Holocaust it is still an injustice. Young Americans today
have no idea about this event in history existed even though it been only half a
century since it happen. Our goal is to make viewers be well informed, and pass on
this hard learn lesson. The lesson caused us 1.6 billion in compensation in 1988, and many
grievances during the past decades. The citizens were as much at fault as the US government. Racial prejudice still exists today and it is sugarcoated as racial profiling, which makes no difference. We also like to honor our Japanese veterans, victims for their sacrifices and endurance that has not been recognized and instead patronized when they were patriots.
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