Chapter 14

Claudia Hernandez

April 23, 2008

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Chapter 14 talks about the injustices towards those citizens that are born of immigrants. An example is seen with the Japanese Americans. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, the government acted out of fear instead of reason. Many Japanese were moved to concentration camps. Although there might have been a great number of them that could had been dangerous, for the most part many of them were hard working families that were treated unfairly.

Young married couples were having children at these camps. A Nisei woman told her husband “This is crazy. You realize there is no future for us and what are we having kids for?” I cannot even imagine all the pain and suffering that all these families must have gone through. Many Japanese-Americans found themselves joining the armed forces not to get medals or because they wanted to live that experience, but they were doing it to prove to others that they loved America. This was their home, their nation, and they had to join to be proof that their families were not “the bad guys”.