Internment Camps in the USA

Blog – Research the internment camps in California during World War II. Based on your findings, was it ethical for the U.S. to take such actions against Asians and Asian-Americans? How do these actions compare with those taken against Muslim-Americans after September 11th? How do they compare with Germany’s actions during WWII?

Honestly I don't feel that the internment camps were an appropriate course of action for the United States to take. It is my opinion that just because we are at war with a country does not mean that we need to discriminate against people with genetic ties to that country. In my opinion by setting up those internment camps we were being no better than the Nazis. Sure we didn't kill off the people we put into the camps but that still doesn't make it right that we put them there in the first place. Discrimination is a major problem even still today because it comes out of ignorance and it breeds fear and hate. People were ignorant in assuming that all germans were Nazis and that ignorance caused a lot of pain and suffering for German americans, who were often attacked and treated terribly because of their german heritage. Many of them, i'm not going to say all because that would be generalizing and the whole point of this paragraph is how generalizing is bad, did not support Hitler, infact they viewed themselves as americans not as germans, so imagine that having ur country turn on you just because you were of german descent. The same with the Japanese and Asain americans, one day your an american the next ur being shipped off to a camp because you country is affraid of you because of your background and where your family came from. We had the same problem after 9/11 with discrimination and unfair generalization. Many people just assumed that all muslims and arabs were terrorists, which of course isn't true, but because people were ignorant and jumped to conclussions, that ended up causing a wide spread fear of muslims, which really isn't fair to them because it was the terrorists who attacked us not the Muslims and I think people really need to open there eyes and see that there is a difference, and that you can't judge a whole group of people just by what a small percentage of them, that just happen to be apart of that group, believe.