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WCDT 2897 - 2901 (16-20 February 2015)
SubaruStephen:
--- Quote from: Aziraphale on 20 Feb 2015, 19:29 ---Not one of our better moments as a country, to put it mildly.
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--- Quote from: Friedrich Nietzsche ---He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
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Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: wlewisiii on 20 Feb 2015, 19:35 ---
--- Quote from: Aziraphale on 20 Feb 2015, 19:29 ---Speaking of the camps, I never could figure out why Issei and Nisei on the East Coast weren't treated the same as their West Coast counterparts. I'm guessing that there was a much lower concentration on the East Coast than there was on the West Coast, but I don't seem to find as much mention of the experiences of Japanese Americans from the Eastern Seaboard in the histories I've seen (Japanese were interned in Boston and on Ellis Island, but IIRC, they were from the West Coast as well). It seems like the government was more concerned with Germans and Italians back east.
Not one of our better moments as a country, to put it mildly.
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More value in the land to be stolen on the West coast than on the East has always been my guess.
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No, they were more concerned about espionage, I think. Thing is, there was just as much strategic real estate on the East Coast as on the West (Norfolk, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, countless commercial ports, refineries, terminals, rail networks, etc.). Unless the assumption was that people on the East Coast would be less likely to report those goings-on to Japan... but given that they were, after all, part of the Axis, one would think the concern would still be there.
Not that it should've been; the 442nd was one of the most decorated units in history.
hedgie:
I think that one of the "reasons" that Japanese-Americans were treated worse on the west coast is that if there *was* going to be an attack on US soil from Japan, that's where it'd be coming from, and "leaders" were worried about a potential fifth column. IIRC, George Takei has a play running about his experiences as an internee.
Aziraphale:
"Allegiance," which I'd like to see.
The first time I heard anything about that was when I saw an exhibit at Ellis Island in 1998-99 or thereabouts... and wondered why I'd never heard of it in my high school or college history courses.
War Sparrow:
--- Quote from: Aziraphale on 20 Feb 2015, 19:58 ---"Allegiance," which I'd like to see.
The first time I heard anything about that was when I saw an exhibit at Ellis Island in 1998-99 or thereabouts... and wondered why I'd never heard of it in my high school or college history courses.
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Every country has one..I learned all about Japanese internment camps, the Chinese head tax, and other wretched things. However, Canada is really bad for not discussing our horrible treatment of natives. It's mentioned, but heavily glossed over. It wasn't till university Political Science that I learned about the "Final Solution To the Indian Problem."
I actually have high hopes for the Emily/Clinton date. If anything, it will be entertaining.
I think university History and Sociology might be better though.
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