A Challenge to Democracy

This video was about how the United States made every Japanese family and every family that even looked Japanese evaculated out of their homes. The video shows how the UNited States moved them out there and how they did in their new homes. It is an older film and shows more of the happy side of the relocation centers than what was really happening.

They were taken mostly from the west coast and put into "relocation centers" across the mid-United States. The government called them a deslocated people, so the word prisoner wasn't used. Even though that is what they were. Each relocation center carried anywhere from 7,000-18,000 people. Inside the camps, people were split into blocks, around 300 people lived in them. The whole place was bounded by barb wired fence and guarded by army officals. The Japanese people were provided very little in their new homes, and many of the people had to leave all their belongings behind. They ate at in large places called mess halls, where it costed them money. Most of the camps were located in the desert so japanese people had to irrigate the land to grow food. It was said that they grew vegitables where it was thought to be unproductive. They built that civiliation from the ground up, building roads, sewage, farms, and many other things. Many Japanese people had to draw from their saving to live decently in the camps. The relocation centers were used to train many young men and women to do variuos professional jobs. They even had voting and a governmental system. They did say living was tough there and it was said that the main goal was to get them all back out into the UNted States and to their homes.

Did you think we trained the Japanese people in the camps on purpose, so we had people to replace the one we lost in the war?

Do you think we placed the Japanese people back over the United States on purpose in certain places, like we were worried?

I think this video is very biased. It shows all the positive things the Japanese people did in their relocation center. Which equal containment camps in my mind and many other peoples. I couldn't get how they showed so many people doing things and making them out to be positive. They farm, built roads, and sewage because if they didn't, it'd be like living in the olden age. The government provided so very little hat it is shocking. I agree with both my questions and think we did this all because there was a background meaning behind it all. I think it was a very sad thing we did to and can compare almost to slavery.