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Ciel, we're in agreement. Thanks for reading!
posted by
majroj
on June 29, 2007 at 11:31 AM
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I don't disagree, Majroj--only adding a bit to consider:
that people tend to discriminate on the basis of what is easy to see: a primitive panic reaction that does not require the time to think anything through, nor to look deeper for real causes, truths, significances.
posted by
Ciel
on June 29, 2007 at 9:41 AM
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Ciel, I prefer to call it racism and war jitters.
While no sabotage was credibly attributed to people in the U.S. of Japanese heritage, there were those who were pro-emperor and in favor of a Japanese "sphere of influence" in the Pacific. Those who were vocal about it, and those just too sick of their treatment to stay, were rounded up at Tule Lake and some were "repatriated" (although some were not born in Japan). Hawai'i, with it's largely Japanese or part-Japanese popuilation, did not experience the roundups the U.S. did (Oit was not yet a state), and inland/away from California the internees were sometimes allowed out to work or even go to school, and sometimes made welcome by their American/caucasian sponsors.
Shortly after 9/11, a local trucker pulled his truck over in front of a temple, hit the four-ways, got out, climbed the gate, went in and started raving about how they should all be sent back to the desert for killing all those people.
The occupants had to explain to him, as the police took him away with no one hurt, that they were Sikhs from India and that they were more afraid of radical fundamentalist everybodies than the driver was. He later apologized and paid for damages.
posted by
majroj
on June 27, 2007 at 9:18 PM
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Why people get rounded up and incarcerated
just because they look like the enemy.
posted by
Ciel
on June 27, 2007 at 9:23 AM
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ciel...??????????
posted by
majroj
on June 26, 2007 at 12:59 PM
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magical thinking...
If something looks like a thing, then it is like that thing... shares its properties, and can influence that thing... So simple, a caveman would think it...
posted by
Ciel
on June 26, 2007 at 9:14 AM
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