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Executive Order 9066 An American Genocide
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Genocide is the systematic extermination or destruction of a political, racial or cultural group as defined by Webster’s Third New International Dictionary. Though many believe that the internment of Japanese-Americans during the beginning years of World War II was nowhere near an event that could be called “genocide”, many do not know of the severe cultural and economic atrocities that destroyed the essence of the Japanese-American. Indeed, the Japanese internment camps pale in comparison to German concentration camps of Auschwitz, Buchenwald and the like, and cannot be compared with the death toll during the American persecution of the Native Americans. Still, in its own light, this internment of American citizens was one of the greatest atrocities in our history. ... To show their loyalty to America, these American citizens began openly destroying and burning any representation of the Japanese culture from priceless manuscripts to family heirlooms hundreds of years old. ... It was America’s refusal to understand and its refusal to prevent these atrocities, which destroyed the very nature of the Japanese-American. ... It was America’s fear and a blind government that drove the Japanese-American to resent and destroy their own culture, and thus, destroy themselves, there can be no question on why the internment of Japanese Americans is called: genocide.
In the absence of security, fear consumes the human ability to see ethics, as it was a major factor in allowing this genocide of the Japanese-Americans. Executive Order 9066 was an order put into effect by the President of the United States, Franklin D. ... At the time, the people of America, mainly those living along the western coast, had just suffered the tragedy of Pearl Harbor and were extremely wary of another ensuing Japanese attack on the American mainland. Even though FBI and CIA analysts saw no real possible threat from the Japanese-Americans settled along the western seaboard, Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 was enacted with a majority support of the American populace (Robinson 248). However, this Executive Order was not specified not naming the Japanese-Americans, but simply allowed for the internship of people of all descents believed to be a possible threat. ... This fear possessed by nearly every American along the coastline allowed ranking individuals such as General DeWitt, the Army general assigned to the task of regulating the military sector of the relocation process, to influence the hearts and beliefs of the people.
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Title: Executive Order 9066 An American Genocide
Words: 2012
Rating: None
Pages: 8
submitted by: Tadanator370
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