the hardships placed on japanese americans during world war 2, would it be carried out differently .?

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Answer 1

It's hard to say.
On one hand, America was completely segregated during WWII. Drinking fountains were labled "whites only" and "colored". The Japanese were considered a lower class of humanity, so locking them up wasn't really a big deal to America. We were so steeped in our ideas of segregation that locking up people of a different race wasn't that much different from banning a vicious breed of dog. (Interesting that German americans weren't confined) We were much more accepting of segregation then than we are now, so I pray that we would have more decency than to do this again.
However, you can't underestimate the power of hate. Right after 9-11 people of middle eastern decent found themselves the targets of random violence, censure, and hatred. Not for things they had done, but for things someone else of simmilar ancestry had done. Had we been involved in a full scale war, this may have escelated in a way not so different from the japanese confinement of WWII.
I hope we learn from our past, but it's scary to realize we may not.

Answer 2

I am assuming that you mean "Would it be carried out differently now?"
I remember a movie with Bruce Willis, Annette Benning, Denzel Washington and Tony Shahloub called "The Siege". It was made in 1998 so America was still three years away from 911. In the movie several terrorist bombs were set off in NYC causing a panic and the city was placed under Martial Law. People of Middle Eastern descent were rounded up and placed in internment camps like the Japanese in WW 2.
On 11 Sept 2001 we learned how we would behave in that situation and it turned out differently than the movie. I can't say it could never happen again. We teach history in our schools not to remember a bunch of old facts and dates but to hopefully learn from our mistakes.
Some of the Japanese in the camps might have been hostiles but I think a large number of them were victims of circumstance. A lot of them sat in the camps while their sons,husbands and brothers fought and died in Europe as members of the 100th and 442nd Infantry . Their battalion had more purple hearts than any other in the whole of the American fighting force. I guess they had something to prove.
There were also some German-Americans interned in the camps but not very many. There were also German POWs in the US. See the movie "The Missouri Break". It tells of the escape of German POWs.

Answer 3

One really must have lived through those days to have any kind of an understanding of the Japanese internment. Everyone in America was absolutely astonished that Japan could destroy much of our navy one Sunday morning. We thought the Japanese made cheap, wind up toys that usually broke in a few days. The Pearl Harbor attack was not the only event. Japan attacked Alaska and put troops ashore occuping Sitka Island until we could retake it. Small, two man, submarines carrying bombs surfaced off the California west coast. Hot air baloons carrying propoganda and/or explosives came to earth on the west coast. There was generally believed to be spying by Japanese in California. All over the country people were daily cautioned to be on the look-out for spys, saboteurs, Fifth Columists. There was some mob violence against Japanese in California. Many Japanese actually were citizens of Japan, while many others felt a divided loyalty to their homeland as well as to America. Unfortunately it was not possible to determine with real accuracy who was dangerous and who was not. The Japanese were not treated inhumainly in the relocation centers in the center of the country. Regardless of all this, the Relocation of the Japanese was one of the many misfortunes of war. I personally suffered a loss of liberty, lived in camps, ate less well than I had been accustomed to, was placed in strange and dangerous circumstances, contracted a wasting disease and spent many months regaining my health and ability to walk. I do not consider that I was mistreated for I was a soldier in the US Army who served in the South Pacific Theatre, was decorated and honorably discharged after the war was over. Point of view is frequently very important.

Answer 4

your question doesnt make sence carried out differently to what?