Japanese Internment

In retrospect , there is no doubt that Japanese Americans were discrimated against during World War II . From almost the first moment they arrived in this country , many white people had negative feelings about them . With the negative feelings of wartime escalating , the Japanese internment seemed just the thing to do in to be proactive in the war . At least that is what government officials told themselves and sold the American public on . The government was able to intern the Japanese because of a long history of prejudice , wartime hysteria , and economic motives

p The Japanese were discriminated against in many ways . One way is that they were the only group interned during World War II . Japan did bomb Pearl Harbor , but these were Japanese Americans that were interned with absolutely no proof that they were ever plotting against the United States . The United States was also pitted against Germany and Italy and these citizens were never interned . This is because those people has assimilated and become part of the population at large . Interning Germans would have included interning people like icon Joe DiMaggio 's father . The Japanese were much easier to identify and single out as a group . They could not assimilate because government policies had singled them out and they were not allowed to marry or otherwise mix with the general population

Many United States citizens had always harbored negative feelings toward the Japanese . As early as 1900 , the San Francisco mayor James Duval Phelan spoke out publicly against...