Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Japanese-American Internment Camps Article

If I were to write an article which point was to be controversial and cause a stir amongst American people, I would make sure to emphasize on the fact that the Japanese-American internment camps was the most civil rights violating action made on American soil. German-American people had as much as the same doubt to be sent to internment camps, but were not because it was easier to visually identify Japanese-Americans rather than German-Americans. Although Japan had attacked the US at Pearl Harbor, Germany had a much stronger effect on the world by leading the Holocaust which killed over 6 million Jews, gypsies, African Americans, and other minorities. The Germans were much more of a threat to the world than Japan was. Although Japan had attacked and destroyed more that half of America's naval fleet at Pearl Harbor, the strides of the steps that they were taking in the war were much smaller than Germany.
I would definitely would not publish this article because it would not only cause for more public attention, but it could be taken out of context and contorted to make it seem worse than actually is written. Propaganda could form from it, which would only cause further problems. I would not publish this article because it would divide the American people based on their opinions, and that would be the worst thing to do, especially in the time of war. During the war period, it is important for the people of the country to come together and unify as one, and to publish this article would cause people to rift apart based on their opinions. The United States of America should stay united, in or out of war.

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