Are there similarities in the treatment of Arab people today and Japanese during WWII in the USA??

Question

It seems that we as a country find a group of people at certain times in history to match whatever prejudices are being circulated at that time. I think the media is partly to blame. I also believe we fall for anything put in front of us that sounds official.

It seems that we as a country find a group of people at certain times in history to match whatever prejudices are being circulated at that time. I think the media is partly to blame. I also believe we fall for anything put in front of us that sounds official.

For those that don't remember, the Japanese were rounded up and put prison camps during WWII, in this Country!!

Answer 1

I hardly think so. When the US government begins to close it borders to Arabs, and place Arabs inside the country in confinement, then their might be a speck of circumstance, but at this present point it is ludicrous to even make this comment.

Answer 2

Although there could be a similar basis on the discrimination that has occur ed to both the Arabs and the Japanese within the U.S., the current treatment of Arabs is not as severe as that of the Japanese during WW2. There are current trends in television and in movies that depict Arabs and/or Muslims as the antagonist, which is similar to the propaganda against the Japanese and Asians in the past, but we have not yet gotten to the point of Arab or Muslim encampment. There IS a similarity in the confusion that Americans had between Japanese and other Asian and the confusion between Muslims and Arabs. Arabs who do not practice Islam have been terrorized and discriminated against because of the assumption that all Arabs are Muslims, which they are not. Consequently many Muslims have been branded as terrorists and enemies against western civilization and the U.S., thus generalizing this hatred to the entirety of the religion, which it is not.

Answer 3

wow.....did they even teach the history of WW2 to you when you were in school?

there are almost no comparisons to be made at all between that situation and this one, nor between the treatment of Japanese and Arabs as you put it.

How exactly are we being prejudice towards people from the middle east? The opposite is true, political correctness has taken hold so badly that nothing bad can be said about even the bad guys in this conflict without someone complaining about it.

This means that your entire hypothesis is false, if we as a country are persecuting a people due to race it would also require that we not have that policy challenged openly.

Where is the anti-Arab propaganda? Where are the hate films demonizing them on a national scale? Where are the internment camps for citizens and legal residents of Arab descent?

Nope it's not similar at all, I hope it never becomes similar to that, for many reasons.

Answer 4

the difference is, is that it wasn't the Japanese religion, to kill Americans, and the Western Civilization

Answer 5

I GUESS THE JEWS Ä°N USA MAY PERFECTLY ANSWER YOUR QUESTÄ°ON ON THÄ°S MATTER ,SINCE PARTLY THE USA Ä°S RULED BY THEM :))