The Internsment Of The Japanese Internment

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The Internment of the Japanese on the camps Although United States of America is meant to be a country of freedom it has shown many times the opposite of freedom for the minority groups that have lived in the United States long time ago. The cases on which for example the African-American did not have rights in the past or the humiliation they suffered by being taken as slaves for the Whites were injustices that people have seen from a long time ago. Sometimes, a nation that is meant to be one of freedom might only be for the whites because the minorities have always struggled to be free and be taken as U.S citizens. There have been many cases on which the nation of United States has been unjust to its citizens and minority groups. Discrimination against African-Americans, Mexican-American, or even Asian-American has been discovered even in the current years. To relate a case of discrimination and bad judging of a minority group, there comes an era in time on which the United States government decides to create a Japanese internment of Japanese immigrants and Japanese-American population living in the United States as a consequence of the incident of the Japanese nation attacking Pearl Harbor in the United States. The happening of this internment was one on which it was unjust by the Japanese living in the United States from the Americans because of many reasons. However, there are three main reasons of why this era was unjust by the Japanese living in the United States. The course to the interment of the Japanese began in December 7, 1941 when the Japanese nation made a surprise attack to a naval-base of the United States located at Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor is located in Hawaii, U.S.A. Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanes... ... middle of paper ... ... suffered from the internship and the bad camps on which they stayed, a vast amount of discrimination by the Americans, and the bad planning of the government. The Japanese population did not deserve to be treated as an enemy because the government was applying the term of generalization. The nation thought that the Japanese were all at war with the Americans and also took every Japanese as mean and bad in general. It relates to what was made by the Nazis. Although the United States government did not kill them it relates on how the nation jailed Japanese that did not do anything. Just like the Nazis jailed the Jews taking them as a treat. This two happenings have a relationship although the government of United States of America did not have the intention and did not kill anyone but in some way they were both unjust since they selected a special group of people.

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