Social Effects Of Prejudice On Asian Americans

fter the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Executive Order 9066 was given which lead to the wrongful incarceration of Japanese Americans. Not many people know about the Internment camps in the United States which detained more than 120,000 Americans of Japanese Ancestry. (“The Camps”) Life for Japanese americans in the internment camps was hard and transition back to normal life would be even harder.

During the holocaust, the Nazis dehumanized the Jews. The capricious, or impulsive, Nazi soldiers did many horrendous things to innocent Jewish people. They treated them as if they were animals rather than human beings. Personal identities were nonexistent for them. Jews were seen as invalid and insignificant.

In the case of the Holocaust, Jews were discriminated for their religion, and not fitting the “perfect’ Aryan race that Hitler was trying to create. (History.com/salem Witch Trials)The Holocaust was led by Hitler and the German army, they administered the mass killing called the “Final Solution”. (History.com/Holocaust) Jews were not the only victims of the holocaust Gypsies, mentally ill, and disabled people were all discriminated by Hitler and did not fit his Aryan race. (United States Holocaust memorial museum.com) They were forced into concentration camps were they suffered until they were eventually killed or starved to

Many Japanese Americans were actively being sent to the internment camps against their will by the government. This forced exile likely instilled feelings of fear, confusion and betrayal amongst the Japanese-American people.

They were often looked down upon because Christian believe that the Jews were responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus. With so many people suffering, they just wanted someone to blame and the Jews were an easy target. Explain persecution

In American history Japanese internment camps had to do with a lot of hysteria. Hysteria was mainly built up because of the bombing on Pearl Harbor. Americans thought that they were no safe until all Japanese were in no way of hurting us. So by putting Japanese Americans in internment camps

The widespread belief that Japanese American citizens were loyal to Japan, where their ancestors lived, resulted in fear of these people. This led President Roosevelt to sign an executive order that would relocate any citizens of Japanese descent to internment camps within the U.S. Many families left much of what they had behind, due to the uncertainty of whether or not they would be able to return to it. While the conditions inside the internment camps were nowhere near able to be compared to those during the Holocaust, they weren’t ideal. However, nothing is ever ideal when concerning racial prejudice. Despite the way that they were treated, the Japanese Americans persevered and in the end learned from their experiences.

Another thing that was bad about the internment camp is that there was a lot of racism going on between the Americans and the Japanese. The anti-racism has been going in the United States since the 19th century. There were tensions between the Asian immigrant workers and the whites because they were force to compete for jobs and land. The United States Congress decided to discourage the Japanese immigrants and to prohibit the naturalization of Japanese immigrants. “The state of California banned the marriages between the whites and the people of Asian descent” (KIM). This is also racism also because the Japanese were the only race that was send to the camps. There were signs on street and billboard on stores

Prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the idea that every Japanese-American was guilty of being Japanese and apart of the Japanese government. Since this mass hysteria spread, the U.S. drove 127,000 Japanese-Americans into internment camps for the duration of WW2. In these internment camps, also known as concentration camps, the Japanese Americans had no say in who they were, what they believed in, and who they were fight for. If you were born with any Japanese blood running through you system, you were automatically a target. Two-thirds of the prisoners were born in the U.S., many never even stepped foot on Japan.

Imagine what it would be like if you and your family. Had to leave your home and live in a camp. In World War ll, life was challenging for Japanese Americans living inside internment camps. It was not necessary for so many reasons. It caused economic, political, and racial problems.

Kristallnacht, or the "Night of Broken Glass", is one of the most crucial events in German, Jewish, and World History. Before, the Jews were simply assaulted and verbally abused. However, on the night of November 9, 1938, an unplanned and extremely violent action against the Jews occurred. In two days, over 250 synagogues were burnt down while the fire department did nothing to stop it, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, Jews were murdered, Jewish cemeteries, schools, hospitals, and homes were looted by SS while the police attempted to preserve them but failed. Before Kristallnacht, Jews ' lives were not threatened. Historically Jews were not welcome by many countries which

The Jews were also dehumanized by taking away their ability to work thereby making them dependent on the state. They then segregated them and "branded" them with the star of David making the individual feel like a foreigner. As time rolled on, and most Jews did not have the ability to work or leave their ghettos, their habitations became so foul and poor that in many areas of Eastern Europe the word "Jew" was almost synonymous with lice and typhus. Furthermore, the media branded them as rats and sub-human. This undoubtedly had an effect upon how they viewed themselves. In a sense, it took away their will to resist or fight.

In this modern world, prejudice is still a universal problem we still have yet to overcome. Although it is true that our society is much less prejudiced than it was 40-50 years ago, we are still struggling to create racial harmony in a world that is so diverse in terms of racial group, sexual orientations, ethnicity, nationality, religions, and so on. I think the core of prejudice comes from stereotyping, which is the generalization of motives, characteristics, or behavior to an entire group of people. In the world where media propaganda is ubiquitous, often times most stereotypes are not formed on valid experiences, instead they are based on images publicized by the mass media, or even created within our heads after seeing and hearing examples from many different sources, like movies, or even hearsay. Stereotyping is more powerful than we think, because it allows those false pictures to control our thinking that leads us to assign uniform characteristics to any person in a group, without consideration of the actual difference between members of that particular group.

After the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor, life in the U.S. had changed. It was the first time in a long time that America was attacked on its homeland. This national security threat was a big shock to the people. The Japanese had to suffer the consequences of their attack. Just as the Germans developed concentration camps for the Jewish during World War II, the Americans set up "relocation" programs better known as internment camps to keep all the Japanese. The reason the Japanese were moved into these camps was because they were suspected of being spies. They were forced to live there for up to four years and were not able to continue with their own lives as they were before while they were living in these camps.

World War two displaced many Japanese and American POWs. Prisoners in camps were separated from the outside world and were made to feel invisible. Louie Zamperini was an American soldier who was stranded and felt invisible in many Japanese prisoner of war camps. He missed his home and he felt like nobody could see him. MIne Okubo was a Japanese-American citizen that lived in America and she did nothing wrong.