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The Community of Manzanar

 

             If an American is ask to tell of a time when people, because of racial or ethnical issues, were forcefully sent to live in harsh or deadly conditions, or to tell of a time when a group of people were made to improvise a living community under insane conditions, that American would probably think about the time of the Holocaust. If an American was asked to give an example on which people on American land were forced to leave places that they considered home and placed to live else where, a number of Americans would most likely speak of the time during which the Native Americans were forced to leave a place that they thought of as theirs and were assigned to live in areas that were set up to basically "store" these Natives. If an American is asked to tell of a time where a group of people were forced to make a new life for over years in a place that was in question of it's safety, suitability, or resourcefulness, again probably many Americans would think of the time during the heartache of the Native Americans. The time that a large amount of Americans would not think about is when Americans forced other Americans along with others to "relocate", such as Japanese-Americans and non-American Japanese, during the battle of World War II. .
             Another thing that many Americans would probably fail to think about is the struggles that were endured, the efforts that were made, and the effectiveness that took place when all of these mentioned groups of people made their new place of living a community of their own in some way or another. When speaking about the actions that where taken against Japanese-Americans and non-American Japanese, a person can find that a mass quantity of people know little to nothing about what went on. So it is reasonable to assume that they would be lacking in the ability to think about a community life style in relocation camps.


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