The Japanese-American Internment

On December, 7th 1941 the country of Japan made a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, forcing America to join the fight against the axis powers in the Second World War. After the attack, many Americans saw all Japanese people as the enemy. This caused politicians to "relocate" Japanese immigrants and even third-generation Japanese-Americans, to internment camps. Many Japanese people did not want to live in the camps and caused riots to break out in several camps. After the Japanese-Americans were rounded up there was probably some American that didn't agree with the injustices of the Japanese Internment, most were other minorities, such as African-Americans, Irish, and Italians who were also were treated poorly in the U.S. . Society of the past and of today is unjustified, on how people treat each other, on prejudging others, and unjust infringement of basic human rights. On how society was back in the 1940's there was really nothing we could have done, except we should have made sure that our fear of the Other does not lead to taking rights and holding people in jail-like camps. Throughout history there is instances on how history can repeat itself, in order to prevent such
atrocities from happening again we study our past to make sure that it would't happen again.

Blog Entry 1, Race Does it Exist?

After watching the PBS series, Race: The Power of an Illusion, it proved that race is just an illusion that people use to make them feel greater than a person of a different skin color. As Habermas, a German man stated that all prejudices are made because of the fear of the Other or people that are "different than them. Since the creation of the United States and the famus line in our constitution that all men were created equal, the fear of the Other made the American people try to define what a man was and how only WASPS (white anglo-saxton protestants) were people while many minorities and black slaves were considered less than man, thus the unailianable rights did not apply. Even scientists of that time tried to prove how race was a factor on determining a persons mental capacity, physical strength, and "pureness".However, as the experiment by the college students shown on the series that people with closer genetic DNA didn't necessarily have to be someone of the same skin color, showing that ultimately race is not a factor. Now that most people see that race is no longer showing who's better than who, less and less people having racial prejudices towards people of a different color or origin. There was many mistakes made in the past but presntly race isn't a deciding factor to decribe a human being.