During World War two between 110,000 and 120,000 japanese Americans were put into internment camps likewise in Germany 11 million people were also being treated unjust and falsely imprisoned in concentration camps. Though there are some major difference between what the US did and what Germany one thing remains the same two groups of loyal citizens were falsely imprisoned.When The Emperor was Divine uses the lives of a Japanese American Family to illustrate how deeply impacted this group of people were during this dreadful time in American History.In her novel, When the Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka highlights the hardships that Japanse American’s faced during World War Two proving that it is crucial that this novel is read for not only
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Japanese internment is not a well talked about topic in the American school system they barely graze over the fact that us Americans imprisoned our own friends and neighbors out of some dumb fear we had. This is also important to know because history has a tendency to repeat itself in our country. We constantly are attack a different race or religion because of the act of one group or individuals. In the 1940’s it was Japanese Americans and today it’s Muslims and African Americans. U.S. citizens look back at the interment and think it's disgusting how we treated these people but we are still doing this today. Like in the book “They said they’d been shot at. Spat on. Refused entrance to the local diner. The movie theater. The dry goods store. They said the signs in the windows were the same wherever they went: NO JAPS ALLOWED. Life was easier, they said, on this side of the fence.” (66-67). Same thing happens today just a couple weeks ago this happened to a muslims woman while she was out at a movie “When I leaned over and asked a woman in a movie theatre to please put her cellphone away, she started yelling at me. She AND her husband called me an F'ing TERRORIST repeatedly. Does the colour of my skin or the fact that I wear a piece of cloth on my head make it alright to lambaste me in public in front of my child and her friends?”. (Racism
Japanese internment is not a well talked about topic in the American school system they barely graze over the fact that us Americans imprisoned our own friends and neighbors out of some dumb fear we had. This is also important to know because history has a tendency to repeat itself in our country. We constantly are attack a different race or religion because of the act of one group or individuals. In the 1940’s it was Japanese Americans and today it’s Muslims and African Americans. U.S. citizens look back at the interment and think it's disgusting how we treated these people but we are still doing this today. Like in the book “They said they’d been shot at. Spat on. Refused entrance to the local diner. The movie theater. The dry goods store. They said the signs in the windows were the same wherever they went: NO JAPS ALLOWED. Life was easier, they said, on this side of the fence.” (66-67). Same thing happens today just a couple weeks ago this happened to a muslims woman while she was out at a movie “When I leaned over and asked a woman in a movie theatre to please put her cellphone away, she started yelling at me. She AND her husband called me an F'ing TERRORIST repeatedly. Does the colour of my skin or the fact that I wear a piece of cloth on my head make it alright to lambaste me in public in front of my child and her friends?”. (Racism