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Concentration Camps in the USA and racism against the Japanese
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| Lira |
Hello lads,
I'm working on a project and I'm studying about racism towards Japanese (and racism from Japanese people). I've found some websites claiming there were some concentration camps in the US for Japanese immigrants, and I'd like to know how reliable these sources are. Also, I'd like to know what the situation currently is in North America, Europe and, if possible, Japan, as I'm far from all of you.
Here are the websites I found:
Cheers.
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| Zild |
| We had internment camps for our japanese during WWII at Manzanar, its true. |
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| occrider |
| If you want some good sources about racism from Japanese people, you could probably google some good links with respect to Japanese racism towards the Chinese or Koreans. Try the "rape of Nanking". As for the US internment camps, I believe there was a supreme court decision with respect to those camps that was rather interesting. I can try looking for it later. They're not concentration camps in the German sense heh, but essentially Japanese-Americans were interned, their property taken, etc. Many were freed by voluntarily joining the US armed forces. I believe there were reparations following the war during the reconciliation period. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
If you want some good sources about racism from Japanese people, you could probably google some good links with respect to Japanese racism towards the Chinese or Koreans. Try the "rape of Nanking". |
I've checked it already, and found a lot of things about the things Japan did before (and during) WWII and the prejudice towards foreigners in contemporary Japan, including stories from people I actually met.
| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
As for the US internment camps, I believe there was a supreme court decision with respect to those camps that was rather interesting. I can try looking for it later. They're not concentration camps in the German sense heh, but essentially Japanese-Americans were interned, their property taken, etc. Many were freed by voluntarily joining the US armed forces. I believe there were reparations following the war during the reconciliation period. |
I wasn't expecting Nazi concentration camps, don't worry :) I just wanted to know more about it - if you could tell me what the good sources are (it's quite hard for an outsider to tell when something is sensationalist unless it's blatantly obvious) ;)
Manzanar? I'll look it up, thank you :) |
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| Spacey Orange |
Yup its true that they existed. (A survivior, I know, is now Congressman Mike Honda D-California)
Close to where I used to live, there is a racetrack where they were penned in the horse stables, prior to being shipped to the camps across the West. I think there were some in california, idaho, andf nevada.
You can also do searches on the baseball leagues that were created in the internment camps. Apperently some of those teams were really good and you might some information on them. There might also be information on art produced in the camps. Good luck. |
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| Urbanmessiah |
Rascism towards japanese? oh my god!
Japanese are the only rascist people left on earth.
The Germans have apoligized to Canadian POW's but the Japanese refuse to.
Germany is made to fell ashamed of themselves, while the japanese don't give a sh*t about the slaughter they commited.
And for some reason they get away with it. Hmmm I wonder if it has anything to do with jews? |
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| Lira |
Thanks for everything, occrider, and thanks for the extra bit of info, Spacey Orange :)
By the way, UrbanMessiah, claming the Japanese are the only racist people left on Earth is not only a inaccurate generalisation but it's also a very naïve thing to say.
edit: Thanks to you too, Fir3start3r, I didn't know there were some of these in Canada as well :) |
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| .montecarlo. |
| quote: | Originally posted by Urbanmessiah
Japanese are the only rascist people left on earth.
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Unless you're Japanese you just proved yourself wrong.
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| ierxium |
| quote: | Originally posted by Urbanmessiah
Rascism towards japanese? oh my god!
Japanese are the only rascist people left on earth.
The Germans have apoligized to Canadian POW's but the Japanese refuse to.
Germany is made to fell ashamed of themselves, while the japanese don't give a sh*t about the slaughter they commited.
And for some reason they get away with it. Hmmm I wonder if it has anything to do with jews? |
That was the dumbest post of the day. I didn't even laugh. |
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| ShadoWolf |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Hello lads,
I'm working on a project and I'm studying about racism towards Japanese (and racism from Japanese people). I've found some websites claiming there were some concentration camps in the US for Japanese immigrants, and I'd like to know how reliable these sources are. Also, I'd like to know what the situation currently is in North America, Europe and, if possible, Japan, as I'm far from all of you.
Here are the websites I found:
Cheers.
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Both the US and Canada had internnment camps for Japanese, and even some for Germans and Italians. The Japanese in Canada were compensated in the 80's, the Italians never were.
The Soviets killed hundreds of thousands of Germans in concentration camps as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japane...e_United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camp |
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