The movie was created by the Department of the Interior, War Relocation Authority, to show the lifestyles of the Japanese-Americans that were relocated during WW2. The immigration status of most of the people placed in relocations camps were American citizens by right of birth. The U.S. Placed them in the camps to avoid military hazard as there was great danger of invasion but did not respect their status as most were Americans with Japanese ancestry and were relocated calling them the “wounded casualties of war.” Guarded by the military and kept in by a wire fence was so called “symbols of the military nature of evacuation.”
Learning trades was a credible claim as this helped the evacuees make it easy to get better jobs outside the relocation center. Japanese professionals were always supervised by a Caucasian which makes sense as there was so much Xenophobia and anti-foreign feelings.
The claim that relocation centers not being normal because home life is disrupted,
Along with the eating, living and working conditions being abnormal is credible, especially by the fact that teaching Americanism to the school children lost much of its meaning being in the confines of the relocation center. Getting evacuees back in to mainstream life was important so their …show more content…
The 1977 literacy law, requiring aliens over 16 years old be able to read English or some other language or dialect exemplifies how the anti-foreign feeling gained strength as we saw in the case of Ms. Friedman, the 23 year old from Poland, who was denied access because although she could read what was given to her, she could not understand it. As Bill Ong stated, “At the time southern and Eastern Europeans did not fit the image of true Americans.” (51) In fact, it was socially desirable to Barr certain races from
Learning trades was a credible claim as this helped the evacuees make it easy to get better jobs outside the relocation center. Japanese professionals were always supervised by a Caucasian which makes sense as there was so much Xenophobia and anti-foreign feelings.
The claim that relocation centers not being normal because home life is disrupted,
Along with the eating, living and working conditions being abnormal is credible, especially by the fact that teaching Americanism to the school children lost much of its meaning being in the confines of the relocation center. Getting evacuees back in to mainstream life was important so their …show more content…
The 1977 literacy law, requiring aliens over 16 years old be able to read English or some other language or dialect exemplifies how the anti-foreign feeling gained strength as we saw in the case of Ms. Friedman, the 23 year old from Poland, who was denied access because although she could read what was given to her, she could not understand it. As Bill Ong stated, “At the time southern and Eastern Europeans did not fit the image of true Americans.” (51) In fact, it was socially desirable to Barr certain races from