WWII Fact
After reading the story, blog one fact about WWII that relates either historically or thematically to "Wilshire Bus." Please tell us why you found the fact interesting, how it relates to the story, and cite your fact (i.e. in parenthesis, tell the reader the book or website from which the fact was gleaned). You may not repeat facts, so blog early! Due by 7:15 Wednesday morning.
posted by Mr. Johnston at 9:02 AM
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the sever amounts of prejudice and raceism in the united states against the Japaness which some of whom were just as american as everyone else living there. we technically were all immigratns still, by doing so we basically did what the German Nazis did to the Jewish, Gypsies, and basically whom ever was not the Aryan race (superior race) we put them away in camps, what happend in those camps only the survivors know, as do the jewish ect.WW2 was probably not our proudest moment (everything up to then we do have some worse moments in our time of being a country) i think its interesting to see how far we havent come with the racism in this country, here we are again with a war on terror, we are being prejudice against muslims and anyone who looks like it, raceism related to the story because well thats the main theme of the story (i receieved my "facts" from global 1+2 studies US history, books and stories read/told to me)
Before you all follow Lizz, who has admirable passion, start with your fact and link it clearly to the story. If I had to guess, I would say Lizz, who is saved from my wrath because of her contributions to wikipedia, blogged without reading the story. Extra Credit: what kind of clause am I using to embellish my descriptions of Lizz, who sits next to Claire in period 3?
Hans.... that comment does not answer the questions I posed. Please recomment after finishing the story and thinking about it!
Because of the attack on pearl harbor, the entire country seemed to take a turn for anti-asian racism. Although it was more directly focused on the japanese, some may not have known or cared about the difference between Chinese Korean, or Japanese. I find it interesting that all three of those groups were mensioned in the story, but I have trouble finding a more specific fact than this. (general history books in Global and us history.)
Tyrell is on the right track, but that is still not good enough. I expect more from you all.
Dang this was rough!!! Fact: More than 2/3 of the Japanese who were interned in the spring of 1942 were citizens of the United States.
Now this is interesting because even though the majority of the people who were placed into the interment camps were in fact legal citizens. This tends to bring up a issue of whether this was indeed legal, morally correct, and neccesary. Later in the Korematsu V. US it was ruled that the the goverment was justified for what it did. Also the japanese were placed in these camps not only because they were posed a possible threat to the homeland America but also because anti-Japanese sentiment among farmers who competed against Japanese labor, thus it was thought that it would help the farmers.
P.S. I have no clue what kind of clause it is, not exactly im educated enough to even know. Lizz sits to the left and josh tanzola to the right!
I dont have a fast enough internet to be checking for facts, so I am just going to go with what i have been taught.*Also I am not sure if we are supposed to comment on what other people say or not in this post but I am going to anyway* I agree with Ryan, it is interesting that America discriminated against all "oriental" people then. The thing that I find most interesting, is the fact that it wasnt just Japanese people that were put into the Internment Camps. Some of the people that were forced into interment were of different ethnic backgrounds. They were sent to the internment camps both to protect them from racism and because they were seen as a threat.(US History)
*P.S. The couple on the bus weren't wearing I AM KOREAN buttons... a man on the street was!
*P.S. i think the clause you used, was the Mr. J is hella crazy clause
Keelin,
what does "there are questionably unjustified situations" mean?
(apologies, but you asked for it :)
Hint on the clause: it is used to DESCRIBE
Trevor W
One fact from WWII that relates to "Wilshire Bus", is that Americans blamed Japanese Americans for helping the Japanese with the attacks on Pearl Harbor. This helped to lead to the prejudice and stereotypes that the Japanese suffered. The oriental couple depict a great example of the stereotypes that Japanese experienced, when the drunken man said, "Why don't you go back to China." The oriental couple demonstrate how Japanese recieved discrimination for things they did not do (attack of Pearl Harbor).
The knowledge came from the US History Book.
I also agree with Rusty...Mr.J is hella crazy.
actully Mr. J i did read the story, i did conncect it to the story, the man whom was critizing the couple on the bus, ill make that clear next time. if you dont believe me go ahead and quiz me tomorrow, and the clause u used, could it be observation?
most of the facts about intern camps and basic war figure have been mention (at least once). I will mention something in relation to Esther's husband who was one of 300,000 wounded US soldiers during the war. (http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/) To reflect on the story however, many people mentioned racism at that time was strong against Japanese. True, but racism had always been extremely strong against Chinese especially on the west coast. The passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act much earlier, displays that the US government even saw the chinese as a "problem". Also, this story is set in the 1950's, which was the begining of the Civil Right Movement and the push for equality for African Americans as well. Racism was not limited to only the Japanese at that point (however they were a strong target). The racism in this country is still strong, and becoming worse now that we think it is a solved problem.
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