Japanese internment is the unfair relocation of thousands of Japanese individuals, of whom more than 62% were legally bound American citizens. This happened mainly from 1942 to 1946. Personally, I think that this was completely unfair and we treated the Japanese as some sort of animal and we even characterized some of the traits that Hitler had when it came to unrightfully holding these people. I strongly disagree with President Roosevelt's decision to start this and the fact that we as America would aspire to such things.it infuriates me.
In some arguments, the internment camps were referred to as "Concentration camps", like the ones the Nazis used on the Jewish population during WWII. Now the Japanese probably didn't have the most comforting stay in the camps, but they certainly did not promote starving, slave labor and torture until death. So comparing these two completely different topics is just redundant. And another argument is that the Japanese Americans received unfair treatment as result of the camps. Saying that the Germans didn't or weren't placed in camps during the time of the holocaust. The same goes for the Italians. Which isn't true, because simply searching the statistics of interned German and Italian internments on google can show you otherwise.
In the movie we watched in class, you could clearly see the anger and frustration in all of the Japanese's faces as they were loaded onto the bus. They had to leave so much behind and could barely bring what they wanted or needed. Like some poor old lady couldn't bring her century old family china set because she couldn't fit them or carry them. And she eventually got so mad that when she was asked a question, she deliberately proceeded to smash the plates and dishes on the ground, regardless of their value to her. This clearly shows how angered and unfairly treated the Japanese were.
From my notes, we were comparing and contrasting either "For" internment, or "against" it.
