When people say they're proud to Americans, that concept certainly does not apply after learning about this. After the Japanese had attacked us, I suppose it is understandable of how many were paranoid of something happening next. But overall, this was not the right thing to do. Most of the people taken into the camps were children and women, who had never shown any disloyalty to the country or made any suspicion rise. I think the main thing at the time was racism, because we had no particular reason to blame them, besides paranoia, and is that even constituted as a reason in this case? A lot of Americans hated what the Nazis were doing, but wasn't America doing the same exact thing? In the camps, people were fenced in, and the conditions weren't the most sanitary. Temperatures would be either unbearably warm, or could get freezing. They were fed, but the same, plain meals twice a day, everyday. Talk about depressing. Children were educated, but not with proper teachers. Medical care was very inadequate compared to before, as if it wasn't bad enough. Many acted as if nothing had happened, but the Japanese were held under major restrictions on their lives. If rules were not followed, they would be killed. In the end, it was discovered that only 10 people total were convicted of spying for Japan, and none of them were Japanese!
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