Friday, July 22, 2011

Week Ten: Race & Ethnicity

Exploring the website about the Japanese internment during World War II really put the whole situation in perspective.  It is crazy to read that United States citizens were seperated from their families just because of their heirtage.  The Yasutake family was discriminated upon just because of what they looked like.  It must have been tough for the family to reenter the general population of the United States; I can't imagine that it was easy for the children to return to school.  Reading their story really shows how much of a hardship these people were put through.  I did find it interesting when the website made a reference to 9/11; can you imagine if the US government put all Muslim Americans in internment camps?

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