In the beginning we see the Japanese getting off the trains and they are all smiling and appear to be very happy. They do not understand what they are about to endure which shows the ignorance they were suffering from that allowed the camps to grow and the situation to continue.
They arrived in their best clothes, prepared for the same living conditions as they had been in before, when in reality they arrived at a bare square mile of barracks and guard towers.
Also being treated that way by your government, after you were imprisoned, is terrible. Even after being imprisoned, the government didn't help you out afterwards, after taking your property.
A father never saw his daughter because he gave up his citizenship and traveled back to Japan, while the mother refused to give hers up. The child was in the mothers stomach when the father packed up and left. It's horrible how many families were ripped apart because of stereo type judging by one's own government and removal from the society.
I'm sure there were many situations just like this, of family members abandoning each other for a better life, but families were also torn apart not by choice but because of this Executive Order 9066. Many were sent to different camps than their families and some were even killed in the camps
I think it's interesting that they showed up wearing their best clothes for the bus. It shows that respect is important for the Japanese, despite their situations. It's almost ironic, that Americans would think these people of being dangerous.
I think it is interesting how people dressed in their nicest clothes when they were being transported, and they showed up on time to leave. It shows how they had no idea where they were going or what they were going to do.
The documentary interviews several people whose parents wouldn't give up their citizenship and had to be taken to the intern camps. When they arrived, "it was like being abandoned." There was only barracks for one square mile. Was that the right choice?
Just like they said they dressed in their best clothes, I don't think they knew where they were going. They had no idea that they would be put into camps and live in terrible conditions.
I think it's weird that someone would rather be a citizen of a country that keeps them in those camps under such terrible conditions then go back to their home country.
The description of the camp is interesting because it shows how scared the Americans really were, and seeing some of the people that arrived at the camp in the film is truly shocking that we were so scared of ordinary people.
It seems like is a concentration camp by definition as they are concentrating a population in a small area to control them. But obviously it was not as bad as the Nazi camps but it did had similarity.
In Manzanar, it didn't seem like they had to do a lot of labor for the state which may be the reason why they didn't call it a "concentration camp", but they did in other camps. And they were forced into conditions that they would never live in themselves, wearing jumpsuits and having to stay there under military supervision which sounds a lot like a concentration camp to me.
The Japanese went from being regular citizens to being enemies of the state over night. They also lost everything of value to them, including their traditions. They left it all behind for a "stark" living place to be covered in dust.
I agree. The only thing that was different was the purpose of the camp. The German ones were for killing, but the American ones were for housing. Any way you look at it though, the conditions at both were horrible.
I find it interesting that many people refused to give up their US citizenship even though they knew they would be put into harsh living conditions. It's ironic because they could have just gone back to Japan but stayed because they still believed America gave them better opportunities.
One of the women in the interviews stated they were all wearing their best clothes, and a picture was shown along with it. All the Japanese were expecting to find a nice place, but they find, as another man stated, that it was "like [they] were abandoned." It's interesting how in both camp situations, in japan and the concentration camps in Europe, they people came expecting to live comfortably after being forced out of their homes and losing their posessions.
Seeing this, it really sticks out to my that this was very unfair to all the Japanese-Americans. They were taken from their homes and sent to these camps on little evidence of treason or espionage. The one woman's grandmother would cry every day, wishing she could give her children a better life.
This is interesting because they had the choice to go back to Japan but that would have been the same as staying. Like you said: "they would have to start all over" even in their home country.
This must have been extremely frustrating. Imagine working for the majority of your life to support your family, then having all your hard work shot down the drain for hardly any reason.
I think it is interesting how people now go back to this area and actually experienced what they went through, such as the heat or the dust blowing in your face. This puts them in the shoes of those affected, which is necessary for preventing such an event to occur again.
The way they lived was horrible. They were living like animals and were losing tradition. They felt abandoned and they stuck together in order to survive. When the camps closed the Japanese people didn't have anything and they were treated horribly. I think it is great that they remind people of this so that nothing like it will ever happen again.
It seems crazy how this happened in American society as in today's society there is a lot more people who fight for equality for all peoples. For instance, after 9/11 happened many people started hating Muslims but they were not sent to camps and they were still respected. It just seems unreal to me how an entire population was imprisoned and oppressed for so long with nobody doing anything about it.
I think it's interesting how that man would rather live in these camps instead of going back to Japan and living a free life in order to keep his american citizenship. It's surprising that they didn't call this life a concentration camp but more of a small city. One man even says that camp was better than the life he lives once he got out.
I agree, it surprised me how people refused to give their American citizenship up in order to stay in America no matter how hard life here would be for them. This is saying something about their old life in Japan, where perhaps they were worked to exhaustion or lived in extreme poverty.
The people were wearing their best clothes going to interment camps. The internees of the barracks built their own barracks. When the people arrived they had a feeling of being abandoned. Couldn't leave the barbered wired fence so they had to make the best of it. Some people weren't let out 3 months after the war ended because they had no where to go. People had to just accept their living conditions just to survive. Today there is awareness to prevent that from ever happening again. Similar to Night
"It was like being abandoned." Guard towers, tight security. They had Japanese build the barracks they were going to live in. Devastating to come out of the camp, because they had the necessities of life, but they had nothing when they left. "Talk about harsh conditions; camp was okay compared to that." Remember the descriptions of the living conditions IN the camp, they were horrible. But hearing that the conditions when they got out were worse... Just shows how little the caucasian americans cared(Not at all).
It is strange what war does to people, it convinced an entire population that anyone of a decent was dangerous, just because of a few people's actions. They are using propaganda to distinguish themselves (the USA) from the Nazis and make their people think that these are nice places. The war drove a wedge between people and the Japanese found it harder OUTSIDE the camp.
During the film, one girl describes her grandmother crying. Because she was contained in this camp she couldn't provide for her family or be there for her grandchildren and watch them grow up. This shows how these camps and ways of containing innocent Japanese people tears apart families and can easily ruin their lives and hopes.
The way people go back to Manzanar to remember the injustices and make sure they don’t happen again relates to how others commemorate injustices that happen in history. This is very similar to Isreal who dedicates a memorial day to the holocaust and everyone who died in order to make sure this doesn't happen again.
In the beginning we see the Japanese getting off the trains and they are all smiling and appear to be very happy. They do not understand what they are about to endure which shows the ignorance they were suffering from that allowed the camps to grow and the situation to continue.
ReplyDeleteThey arrived in their best clothes, prepared for the same living conditions as they had been in before, when in reality they arrived at a bare square mile of barracks and guard towers.
DeleteSuddenly being imprisoned by your own government must have been very shocking. Its no surprise some wanted to go back to Japan.
ReplyDeleteIt makes me wonder what it was like in Japan if some Japanese-Americans chose to stay in America rather than return to their home country.
DeleteAlso being treated that way by your government, after you were imprisoned, is terrible. Even after being imprisoned, the government didn't help you out afterwards, after taking your property.
DeleteThe people who stayed believed that America was a better place for them and was in the long run.
DeleteA father never saw his daughter because he gave up his citizenship and traveled back to Japan, while the mother refused to give hers up. The child was in the mothers stomach when the father packed up and left. It's horrible how many families were ripped apart because of stereo type judging by one's own government and removal from the society.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure there were many situations just like this, of family members abandoning each other for a better life, but families were also torn apart not by choice but because of this Executive Order 9066. Many were sent to different camps than their families and some were even killed in the camps
DeleteI think it's interesting that they showed up wearing their best clothes for the bus. It shows that respect is important for the Japanese, despite their situations. It's almost ironic, that Americans would think these people of being dangerous.
ReplyDeleteI think another reason that they brought their best clothes is because they didn't know how bad it was actually going to be.
DeleteI think it is interesting how people dressed in their nicest clothes when they were being transported, and they showed up on time to leave. It shows how they had no idea where they were going or what they were going to do.
ReplyDeleteThe documentary interviews several people whose parents wouldn't give up their citizenship and had to be taken to the intern camps. When they arrived, "it was like being abandoned." There was only barracks for one square mile. Was that the right choice?
ReplyDeleteJust like they said they dressed in their best clothes, I don't think they knew where they were going. They had no idea that they would be put into camps and live in terrible conditions.
DeleteI think it's weird that someone would rather be a citizen of a country that keeps them in those camps under such terrible conditions then go back to their home country.
DeleteThe description of the camp is interesting. They say it is not a concentration camp, and yet there were barbed wire fences and guard towers.
ReplyDeleteThe description of the camp is interesting because it shows how scared the Americans really were, and seeing some of the people that arrived at the camp in the film is truly shocking that we were so scared of ordinary people.
DeleteI found it weird that they make it sound more like a nice, almost resort-like place to live. But it really was the exact opposite.
DeleteIt seems like is a concentration camp by definition as they are concentrating a population in a small area to control them. But obviously it was not as bad as the Nazi camps but it did had similarity.
DeleteIn Manzanar, it didn't seem like they had to do a lot of labor for the state which may be the reason why they didn't call it a "concentration camp", but they did in other camps. And they were forced into conditions that they would never live in themselves, wearing jumpsuits and having to stay there under military supervision which sounds a lot like a concentration camp to me.
DeleteThe Japanese went from being regular citizens to being enemies of the state over night. They also lost everything of value to them, including their traditions. They left it all behind for a "stark" living place to be covered in dust.
ReplyDeleteEven though it was not a concentration camp, it still had the high levels of security.
ReplyDeleteI agree. The only thing that was different was the purpose of the camp. The German ones were for killing, but the American ones were for housing. Any way you look at it though, the conditions at both were horrible.
DeleteI find it interesting that many people refused to give up their US citizenship even though they knew they would be put into harsh living conditions. It's ironic because they could have just gone back to Japan but stayed because they still believed America gave them better opportunities.
ReplyDeleteOne of the women in the interviews stated they were all wearing their best clothes, and a picture was shown along with it. All the Japanese were expecting to find a nice place, but they find, as another man stated, that it was "like [they] were abandoned." It's interesting how in both camp situations, in japan and the concentration camps in Europe, they people came expecting to live comfortably after being forced out of their homes and losing their posessions.
ReplyDeleteSeeing this, it really sticks out to my that this was very unfair to all the Japanese-Americans. They were taken from their homes and sent to these camps on little evidence of treason or espionage. The one woman's grandmother would cry every day, wishing she could give her children a better life.
ReplyDeleteJapanese-Americans who were successful lost everything and had to start over when they left the camp.
ReplyDeleteThey say that it is even worse when they left the camp and that is horrible.
DeleteThis is interesting because they had the choice to go back to Japan but that would have been the same as staying. Like you said: "they would have to start all over" even in their home country.
DeleteThis must have been extremely frustrating. Imagine working for the majority of your life to support your family, then having all your hard work shot down the drain for hardly any reason.
DeleteIts incredible that the predujus that was created during the war continued on past the end of the war.
DeleteI think it is interesting how people now go back to this area and actually experienced what they went through, such as the heat or the dust blowing in your face. This puts them in the shoes of those affected, which is necessary for preventing such an event to occur again.
ReplyDeletePeople left everything and went to Japan just to have a normal life again.
ReplyDeleteThe way they lived was horrible. They were living like animals and were losing tradition. They felt abandoned and they stuck together in order to survive. When the camps closed the Japanese people didn't have anything and they were treated horribly. I think it is great that they remind people of this so that nothing like it will ever happen again.
ReplyDeleteIt seems crazy how this happened in American society as in today's society there is a lot more people who fight for equality for all peoples. For instance, after 9/11 happened many people started hating Muslims but they were not sent to camps and they were still respected. It just seems unreal to me how an entire population was imprisoned and oppressed for so long with nobody doing anything about it.
ReplyDeleteI think it's interesting how that man would rather live in these camps instead of going back to Japan and living a free life in order to keep his american citizenship. It's surprising that they didn't call this life a concentration camp but more of a small city. One man even says that camp was better than the life he lives once he got out.
ReplyDeleteI agree, it surprised me how people refused to give their American citizenship up in order to stay in America no matter how hard life here would be for them. This is saying something about their old life in Japan, where perhaps they were worked to exhaustion or lived in extreme poverty.
DeleteThe people were wearing their best clothes going to interment camps. The internees of the barracks built their own barracks. When the people arrived they had a feeling of being abandoned. Couldn't leave the barbered wired fence so they had to make the best of it. Some people weren't let out 3 months after the war ended because they had no where to go. People had to just accept their living conditions just to survive. Today there is awareness to prevent that from ever happening again. Similar to Night
ReplyDelete"It was like being abandoned." Guard towers, tight security. They had Japanese build the barracks they were going to live in. Devastating to come out of the camp, because they had the necessities of life, but they had nothing when they left. "Talk about harsh conditions; camp was okay compared to that." Remember the descriptions of the living conditions IN the camp, they were horrible. But hearing that the conditions when they got out were worse... Just shows how little the caucasian americans cared(Not at all).
ReplyDeleteIt is strange what war does to people, it convinced an entire population that anyone of a decent was dangerous, just because of a few people's actions. They are using propaganda to distinguish themselves (the USA) from the Nazis and make their people think that these are nice places. The war drove a wedge between people and the Japanese found it harder OUTSIDE the camp.
ReplyDeleteDuring the film, one girl describes her grandmother crying. Because she was contained in this camp she couldn't provide for her family or be there for her grandchildren and watch them grow up. This shows how these camps and ways of containing innocent Japanese people tears apart families and can easily ruin their lives and hopes.
ReplyDeleteThe way people go back to Manzanar to remember the injustices and make sure they don’t happen again relates to how others commemorate injustices that happen in history. This is very similar to Isreal who dedicates a memorial day to the holocaust and everyone who died in order to make sure this doesn't happen again.
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