Japanese Americans Visit A WW2 Incarceration Camp
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I see a lot of comments saying "Well don't forget the atrocities the Japanese committed!" and while yes they did horrible things, the people affected by these camps had nothing to do with the war. They simply were trying to live their lives in a country that hated them for things they did not do. It's the same thing as a black person hating a white person because of slavery, even when the white person had nothing to do with it. It's wrong and these camps were another example of war causing a lack pf trust between people which ultimately lead to things like this. It doesn't matter what the Japanese did, this was still not okay.
What???
That's true mate
did or had?
+Brittany Broquadio yeah, but we're talking about Japanese Americans, they had nothing to do with it.
+Brittany Broquadio So if your ancestor murdered thousands, you should also be punished?
"Oh but the Japanese did terrible things too!" Yeah, but these people weren't Japanese soldiers. These people were US citizens who were forced to leave their homes and abandon nearly all their possessions that they worked hard for. A lot of these people were from Japan but had already assimilated into American culture! Can you imagine having to come to another country to lead a better life and get a better job, only to lose it because of extreme paranoia and prejudice?
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tyler jett "Let's just put every Japanese we see into these internment camps! Who cares about background checks and narrowing down the most suspicious people!"
"Sir, what about the Germans and Italians?"
"BACKGROUND CHECKS, ONLY THE MOST SUSPICIOUS SHOULD GO!!! THOROUGHLY CHOOSE EACH SUSPICIOUS GERMAN AND ITALIAN WITH HARD EVIDENCE!!!"
Do you now understand why the Japanese internment camps were so unjustified?
+snoopyrawdogg there's one of these camps not to far from where I live with a big marker even talked to people who met the Japanese Americans there were camps in the South also
exactly, these people were Americans of Japanese descent. I wonder why FDR didn't send Italian Americans and German Americans to interment camps...
Actually, most of these people were second, third, or even fourth generation Japanese-Americans. They were truly American citizens, which is what makes this even more tragic.
The sad thing is that the American education system teaches very little about this...
They, like any country, tend to teach their history as the victors, even if they have to make it up.
One is in my state and we had a paragraph in our text book about it, we took not even thirty minutes of out hour and half class to learn about it.
Yuzu Trash Actually they don’t teach much about World War Two or one in general, the 20th century is a grey area atm in American education.
Like has already been stated we learned plenty about it, even read whole books from the point of view of these Japanese people, but the majority of the actual focus was on, you know, the world wide war. Intresting though that you deem America's education regarding this subject insufficient but don't acknowledge that Japan's own government doesn't even acknowledge their own war crimes during World War II at all even to this day.
I bet Japan cover up their own messes too, during WW2 they invaded many countries, their army raped and killed many.
When that dude bowed at the cemetery entrance, I lost it. What a mature & respectful young man!
slydtsatmosman i come here from hiho kids met Japanese American interment camp video, and what first came to my mind is this scene which i watched it years ago.
@J M I mean, yoir people villainized them and treated them like an enemy for simply being born a certain nationality, of course they're going to feel like white Americans that sent them there are the enemy. I don't blame them.
y'know, when I came to this comment section I didn't expect to see blatant racism on a video talking about a horrible tragedy that happened. now I kinda wanna puke. nobody should have been put in these camps. these camps were not "5 star hotels". people lost their jobs, their homes, their everything. they had nothing to come back to when they were finally released. and then nobody would hire them because of their race. and we also dropped 2 atom bombs on the country they left, the one with their families and their culture. they were the victims here, not us.
@J M turd head
@J M pull up i knock ur ass out rn
A lot of people in the comment section are missing the point. This is just one example of humanity's mistreatment of each other. Sure, the Japanese committed many atrocities in Asia, but these Japanese Americans were not a part of it. Most of them had probably been in America for generations already. You can't just justify what was done to them (told they were dangerous solely because of their ethnicity, compelled to give up jobs and homes, basic freedoms taken away) because they were the same ethnicity as the "enemy" during WWII. This over-generalization, stereotyping, irrational fear due to unrepresentative behavior is what causes history to repeat itself. If we can't understand why this history is wrong, we absolutely could do this again at this scale in the future.
sadly the same is happening with the musulman community, because of the actios of a minor part of that community, everyone is being hated and attacked, even politician are attacking them just because of their believes and appearance, it feels like we are repeating the same history just with different ethnic origin
The last bit of your comment is exactly why these things need to be talked about and remembered. See, some people just want history to be forgotten because they know that a finger might be pointed towards them or people that look like them for crimes committed in the past and they don't want that. It's just a cheap way to put a Band-Aid over a problem and calling it fixed.
It's why I don't dislike the Japanese, it's more along the lines of disliking their government.
I agree but sadly when you say this to SJWs about like white people and slavery it's like it doesn't matter. What I mean is like my family never owned slaves and didn't come to the US til the 1890s yet I've been in arguments with hardcore liberal SJW BLM people who say it doesn't matter and I should still feel bad/guilty for what my people did.
What I am getting at is that people should never blame or hate on a whole group just due to the actions of the very small minority of a group. Still, for some reason you will hear this all the time for other groups of people but yet again it of course does not apply to white people because some still believe that we are ALL the most evil people who ever lived.
Ur so right
From what I remember of my high school history book this part of our history was covered in just one small paragraph.
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compared to the jewish situation in Europe at the time this wasn't exactly a big deal.
+SteelBacks Dont mock something if you havent exprienced it yourself.
But we shouldn't forget that the Japanese had working camps made for the Chinese, the Koreans and the whites in Indonesia.
US history class isn't real American history, it's propaganda
i am half japanese, and recently my grandpa flew in for Christmas. We talked about this subject for a while and he actually showed me his high school yearbook from when he was in the camp.
Cool!
J M 😂
@J M Just saw your comment right now, and I don't think you understand that my grandpa and I are JAPANESE AMERICAN not just japanese. We are just as american as anyone else, so just know that my grandpa and I both agree that the japanese acted horribly and the US made the right decision to drop the nuclear bombs to end the war. Just because I have japanese blood in me, doesn't mean I am defending or agreeing to what they did to the US.
@@marineboy4181 why are you making it sound like a bad thing to be japanese?
@@rubyholland8213 I'm not we can agree to disagree that is my opinions everyone has one pretty sure you do too
7:04 He bowed before entering... My gosh, I am so amazed and honored to have witnessed all of this, but also seeing that motion of respect has truly humbled me to the core. Thank you. You are all amazing people. (And thank you for treasuring your culture. I am not Japanese, but the Japanese culture is the one I adore and have studied the most all my life. And I plan on going to Japan next year. It's always been a dream since I was a young girl.) I just had to say this. Whoever reads this, thank you, too, for making it this far. Who knows if anyone from Buzzfeed will ever read this in the thousands of comments, but I hope that someone out there does read this. And know how special this really is. A lot of them immigrated to my hometown of Sacramento, as well, and I knew a lot of friends growing up who's grandparents had also been there... But we all have to live our best lives. We only have the one, after all.
PikaWolf I've read your comment and loved it, even if no one at Buzzfeed does. I adore Japan's culture too, the little of what I have consumed. Good luck for your trip to Japan! You lucky dog! Have aaaaaaaall the fun and memorable experiences which you can possibly collect.
I loved that bowing part so much too
Thank you.
PikaWolf I
Max Besozzi so showing respect means you're a weeb, nice one bud.
What bothers me is we learn a lot about war with Japan and how we nuke them. It will cover two pages of the history textbook, but the Japanese camps only had like one paragraph.
Nathan Petronzio Ya they always say "We must learn history so we won't repeat the same mistakes". How can we learn when people want to cover up so many things. Plus I heard about that genocide as well but barely because there were so little information.
Very true but nuking is a huge step above internment camps.
My school watched a whole video over it and also read articles over it. we were not robbed of any knowledge of this
z Biite the atomic bombs ended the war which is why they're so important
In Japan they deny their crimes ever happened. It’s upsetting and sad when Americans start defending the Japanese because honestly though...they deserved it.
am I the only one that felt rather touched by that one guy taking a bow before entering the cemetery?!
No, I was touched too. The respect shown reached me.
respecting the elders and forebearers are one of main family teaching of every asian families. for generations. respect without fear. is always okay to disagree but never okay not be respectful.
no, i had to rewatch that part a few times, was very touching to see
Nurlinda F Sihotang too bad the respect only comes from japanese descendents with a mixed bloodline lol
Kittyora Sheepy agreed. A beautiful mark of respect. Very nice guy
“Take only photos, leave only footsteps.” Really really love that. I’m going to be using that for now on when I take my friends on nature walks. :)
That is a very old motto.
But he left finger prints
It’s an old exploring motto
footpath erosion
The way sean's bowing when he entered the cemetery, it's so polite and heartwarming.
Bare minimum
@@spicyeggs that's how you respond to a video that was 4 years old you Hypocrite
Camrxy do you know what hypocrisy means 😂
Camrxy yeah this guy is definitely trying to sound smarter than he is lik
looking in the comments and seeing so many people try to derail the topic of this ideo truly makes me sad
How about that scenery though?
+Ella Murph maybe that isn't their agenda maybe that feeling is something you're trying to repress. Maybe you should feel bad looking at these things..because they are horrible..not everyone is "out to get white people" history is history. Maybe seeing this will help history not repeat itself.
+Ella Murph or maybe they want white people to learn about their ancestors mistakes so they themselves don't make it.
or MAYBE so that white people will learn a little bit of Japanese American history
I don't think it's aimed at just "white" people. I think it's meant to say, "Hey America. This is what our nation has done. Was it done by white people? Yes. They believed it was the absolute right thing to do to protect themselves. They were scared. We need to be aware of our history as a whole and learn from our mistakes, so that when we are afraid again, we don't make them again. We need to talk about this, because it's happened. We all need to be aware, Whites, African Americans, Chinese, Japanese, everyone. Because only we can change the future from repeating history."
+Ella Murph can you just not? This is a serious topic and you want to talk trash about buzz feed? For one thing, I think white people should feel bad. The Japanese should feel bad. The Germans should feel bad. They all made one mistake that changed everything. There's a reason why they're doing this. Your just blind from the thought that everything in this world wants to make people feel useless. Every one made a mistake in their lives. That didn't mean they shouldn't remember what they did. It means remember it so it won't ever happen again
what I can conclude from taking AP U. S History is that America treated minorities like crap.
*white Americans
This is why BML and POC empowerment matters. White people can pretend to be oppressed, but history shows they've always been supported and racist. We want to change that now.
+Eмιℓу Wαиg I advise you to take a look on what is going in Africa. White people may be responsible for many things (though I have issues with the idea of being taken responsible for all the atrocities that my "race" has done) but "we" are not alone in this world and never have been!!!
(Sorry for my english)
I'm taking apush rn and I'm starting on period 1; can you tell me about what else we would learn in the future? And also I took it part of wanting to know the US history and be more knowledgeable and as well as seeing what part of history is not spoken upon in class and the textbook. Concerning the Japanese internment camps I would love to see how much is mentioned in the book and class 🙃
Still does
take AP U.S history and you will see that it was indeed the case, a lot of other groups were oppressed trying to make it to the US and a lot of them where nations that were mostly white. Groups like BLM and The New Black panther movement are some of the reason racism is still around. My god MLK would not be happy about what is going on and how BLM works you would learn this in a History class a lot better then Tumblr and FOX news
Here's a piece of history many have forgotten: Under American orders, over 2,200 Japanese from Latin America (mainly Japanese-Peruvian families) were kidnapped (many at gunpoint) and placed in the same concentration camps in California. They took their passports and forced them into illegal alien status. The United States originally intended to trade these Latin American internees as part of a hostage exchange program with Japan and other Axis nations, in fact, a small number of mainly Spanish speaking ethnic Japanese were deported to Japan in exchange for American nationals.
When President Reagan finally signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 it included reparations to the Japanese Americans for the injustices committed against them. It did not, however, include any reparations for Japanese-Peruvians because they were of illegal alien status at the time. A 1999 settlement with the US government offered Japanese-Peruvians a significantly less amount "for their troubles", a slap in the face compared to what their Japanese-American counterparts were offered. From an article on the topic: “It was like a slap in the face,” Shibayama said. “Actually, we went through worse than the Japanese-Americans did, because at least they were in their own country.”
@@e01apslsk Yes it is
I mean although that is terrible, that number is so insignificant compared to the hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans affected.
they are endangering the lives of those people who has nothing to do with the war just because of their race they'll trade these people to risk their lives by sending them away to america's perceived enemies those countries are dangerous at that time
Not just something to be remembered, but something to be remembered, to learn from, and to NOT repeat again.
LOL...they keep repeating it. With Native Americans, with the Japanese (during which some Natives were taken then, as well), and they want to keep repeating it.
vivianso33 yes
Aniyunwiya Ageya lets hope the Japanese will teach their youth about their horrific war crimes
Oh trust me, this will happen again, this isn't even a century ago, you think humans changed that much in a short time? When fear gets you hard enough, stuff like this will happen again, majority will beat up the minority, just hope we are on the right side.
I'm part Japanese my family where citizens they where legal lived in San Diego area farmers.. they had everything taken from them just for being Japanese like many others so wrong.. the US has a fair share of shameful events..
+Beep meep and moop usa has a lot tho....compared to africa or so
+Georgina Harris true but american history has an extremr amount of terrible phases....it sounds a bit like ur tryna justify it cos this video never says america is thenonly country w a bad history...i dont rly get ur point but o well
my family where Americans dickhead.. they did nothing wrong they where farmers and factory workers.. all there rights where taken from them there homes etc. just for being Japanese..
+23490417 98234098 thank God a rational smart person literally almost everyone here is a low I. Q idiot saying america is shameful yet Japan did even more fucked up crap.
my family where Americans...
"Ball was still life" lmao
if your the kind of person that thinks oh well they deserved it well your as bad as the people that put them there. I'm chinese my family fought and suffered while the Japanese attacked so I know about what the Japanese army did but you can't hold an entire nation a countable for their leaders mistakes.
Not_A_Gamer So I assume "Not_A_Gamer" is you real name right? Mr/Miss Gamer?
ali nawaz Hmmmm.....I mean the some soldiers did enjoy it. They had beheading competition......"Great fun"
And it was war. You need cruel method to protect your people...
Not_A_Gamer Yea...what is the problem with giving yourself a different name on the Internet? He/she could have been to the middle east.
ali nawaz my people were killed from your people thousand years ago but I don't send your country sucks cuz I can forgive you you don't know where my races I'm hmong by the way if you don't know what that is just look it up
The reason why so many Asians still hold a grudge against Japan is because Japan never apologized for what they did to Korea, china, and south East Asia; in fact they denied that their crimes ever existed and it was created for defamation of Japan. Japan doesn't even have the school curriculum teach their students what they did during ww2. At least Germany owned up and teaches their citizens reminding them of their past and their wrongdoings, Japan just pretends it never happened to begin with.
We need more videos like these now.
Wonder when is next part coming like you know,"Japanese Americans visit Nanjing site of 1 million murdered Chinese people by the hand of those same Japanese'',but i guess never since white people are spapegoats of the modern world.
Avantiragazzi maybe killing of civilians in nazi germany through strategic bombing with a death toll of 350 to 600 thousand civilians, while nazi germany did that as well but not to the extent british and us did it. Or give hiroshima and nagasaki a quick stop and ask about what happened 60 years ago, 90 to 146 thousand killed. While civillians killing was mostly started by the enemy countries, the US and british didnt hesitate to attack civillians in return and they did it without control going 3 or 4 times the numbers of the enemies showing no regard.
You do realize that Japan did not surrender because of Nagasaki or Hiroshima but because of Soviet intervention in the war.While i agree that those two were terrible crimes,it still bothers me that in western world practically nobody knows of the Japanese crimes against Chinese civilians which were in some aspects even more barbarous than those of Nazi Germany.Not to mention that Japan still denies any responsiblity for those crimes and actually covers up criminals.
So much
Abbey H no...no we dont
Video's like this one are the main reason I love Buzz Feed. If we forget our past, we will be doomed to repeat it...over and over again. This is why we, as a global society, have to put aside our petty differences and learn to move ahead as a species.
I agree
So great to see the nasty little girl squad is out and about. Go back to your Real Housewives and Krapdashians ladies. Leave world issues to the adults.
I think it was necessary to do this. Many of the Japanese were spies.
TheBloodymAlice
But the government had no way of telling who was a spy. It was a necessary action, because America was in danger. Maybe most of them weren't spies, but enough were.
BuzzFeed tends to have a very biased point of view.
Erix I don't think this is biased at all. As a Japanese-American, I understand the need to protect America as a whole. But to go to a place like this, where your ancestors were removed from their homes, the homes they had worked so hard to build, is totally different. Many of our ancestors came to lead better lives in America. I think everyone's reactions in this video were completely justified.
Why do some guys quote the war crimes Imperial Japan committed? It's NOT directly related to them. Because THEY WERE AMERICAN, NOT JAPANESE! Actually German American and Italian American were NOT treated like Japanese American.
By the way, They haven't yet gotten back their lost assets confiscated by U.S. government at that time.
Supersman2000FightChair
No, they did not act like that at all. They joined US military of their own will at the camp and fought at the forefront of European Front. Why? It's just to prove that they were American. Just google 442nd Infantry Regiment.
Wow!
***** Yes, but if they'd all been killed, the U.S. government would've saved a lot of money they spent on feeding and housing a population that was contributing essentially nothing. Money that would've been better spent on the war or at home. Your arguments of "proportionality" are nothing more than emotional sentiment, programmed into your thinking by an indulgent, liberal, and decadent modern society.
***** Poor baby~ The real world must be a scary, scary place for you... The _reality_ is, what is in the United States' interests _already_ trumps international law! For example, the use of enhanced interrogation to gain invaluable information vital to our national security. The use of hollow point bullets by the military. Tiny, tiny examples... But I can give you big ones if you can't be bothered to look up what goes on in the real world and continue to insist hiding under that comfy security blanket.
Polkadot FFS Some but majority were americans.
When he said his grandad had forgot his name I cried generally I know how horrible humans have been and the way we have treated others is horrendous we always get through it and I hope we don’t have to experience it ever again!
Im amazed at how resilient these Japanese-Americans were. They got uprooted from their entire lives very suddenly, lost their job and had to move away from their home to a strange place and live with strangers, having little to no privacy, and for nothing other than what little connection the us government thought they might have with a Country they chose to get out of.
Then when they were finally set free, they experienced very bad discrimination and racism from everyone, meaning it was very difficult to find a job again. Most had to find out that the home and belongings they were forced to leave behind was no longer there because so called neighbors broke into their home and stole everything, even furniture.
All this and they also had no to even ask for help. Any family they have close by is in the same situation. If you may have had family back in Japan you didn’t even know if they survived the war, so not much they could do either. I’m truly amazed that they were able to get back on their feet at all, it must have taken a lot of hard work and endurance. I can only imagine how frustrating it must be for those people to see how few people know of these events, seeing them be swept under the rug and ignored.
The thing is, one of my teachers literally went AGAINST what the district told her to teach so that we can learn about the Japanese internment camps. I didn't even know the US was capable of having something as similar to a concentration camp as this was. It was eye opening... to say the least. It definitely showed me that this country isn't the perfect, "free" country they tried so hard to portray; it was all biased. The white education system only wants us to learn about the good it's done and not the bad. This country is flawed.
my class learn it.
It's not a "white "thing, it's a "taking responsibility" thing.
Come on. "As Similar to a COncentration Camp"? I dont think you know anything about nazi concentration camps.
Ikr
I never knew this happened none of my teachers ever talked about it
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This encourages me to want to learn more about my Japanese culture.
You must read the story of the US 442 ,, Nisei Division" in world war 2! This brave US Japanese soldiers was the highest decoratet US division in the European theater of operations during the winter war 1944 in the belgian Ardennen forests. Most members of this brave Soldiers was killed in aktion while saving the suroundet 36 US ,, Texas Division" from german SS troops. ,, Go for broke!"
read about american japanese culture.....dont go too deep into japans history....they have committed horrible atrocities i dont think you would like to read about. i saw a video the other day where they showed japanese people a swastika and noone knew what it was even tho emperor hirohito was allied with the nazis and trying to take over the world just 80 years ago. Japan completely wiped that history clean.
i live in utah, where the was an internment camp called Topaz. there are no buildings or recreations of what people has to go through there. there is only rubble and dirt, the ground had been salted so that nothing would grow. it's taken years to finally get a small museum and small recreation of a building that would've stood there. on the day i was able to go, there was a man who had built the camp and a different man who was taken there as a small child. it was such an interesting interaction between the two of them. the man who had lived there told the other gentleman "well you built it well, i was never able to get the floorboards up when i wanted to hide something." all around the actual site there were nails, screws, random metal hinges and things. these men both spent a lot of their lives thinking about this, and as someone who A- lives in the after math and didn't get taught about this until my senior year in high school, B- someone who is white and wouldn't necessarily be effected by this, it was such an honor to go out and learn in this desolate and emotional place of history.
Wow that's interesting. I am a quarter Japanese on my father's side. But my grandfather was born and raised in Honolulu until he went in to the military, so I do not believe his family was as affected by internment as other Japanese/Japanese-Americans were during that time. Honestly I wish I knew more about their experience. Here in Washington State, there was an interment camp called "Camp Harmony", which was located on an assembly center where we hold our big state fair every summer. I have heard that some had to sleep in the stalls used for animals being shown at the fair. Some of those who were interned as children and are living today, describe that they felt like they were treated like animals from enforcement personnel and other citizens looking in. What a horrible event. Apparently there is a monument paying tribute to this event, but I have not seen it in person.
I've never learned really about topaz except from that one small paragraph in our history books. I've always wanted to go as I'm a utahn as well but now that I know there is almost nothing left breaks me. It's a dark time in our history that needs to be preserved and talked about so that itnis never repeated again. It hurts that we've tried to cover this up.
This is the type of history that cannot be taught at school. You learn more about your own history through your own research and develop an understanding once you visit a historical location. You get to see things better once you've learned how history has treated a certain minority and share a connection of the past once you learned from it.
+Gqo start*
Really? I was tought about the Japanese Internment Camps in Middle and High School as was as my college history classes.
You only get a brief history of internment camps at school. What I'm saying is, if you want an in depth history you have to outside research. You limit yourself if you only rely on history classes to teach you because history so broad and not everything is covered. How many of you guys knew what the Manzanar Internment Camp was because I sure wasn't taught that tbh. Visiting historic landmarks is an experience because not only have you learned it whether at school or research, but you get a personal experience of what life was in the past.
+ricenice1 ye that with everything like ww2 and ww1
We were taught in elementary and high school. _Farewell to Mazanar_ was high school English class reading material. It's probably due to the fact that we are in San Francisco with district that was heavily populated by Japanese-Americans.
I am a white American and this makes me feel sick to my stomach to think that these things have happened. I feel bad that it was probably my ancestors that did these things.
to be fair Japaneses also did some really messed up thing to Chineses and Koreans in the same period
but yes, absolutely horrible, all War is terrible
You're acting as if white people are the only ones that did bad things. Not trying to pop your bubble but no country has a clean record.
every single country has done horrible things in that period of time. we werent so holy too. but the ussr and fascists were far worse, atleast with there actions, who knows what churchil had in mind
actually white ppl are still doing it nowadays just in a more subtle way that's all. Have you heard that having a white sounding name is equal to having 6 yrs of work experience? But you seem like a nice person though.
7:02 I love how that one guy bows before entering while that other one's just on his phone
Good manners, education, respect for the ancestors, sense of the sacred vs. frivolity
"Participated Willingly"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No.
I am Jewish, and I makes me so sad an upset that something very akin to concentration camps was set up and implemented in the USA - and what is even more upsetting is the lack of discourse around the Japanese internment camps, especially in schools.
*****
From what I understand, German students learn all about Hitler, the Nazis, and WWII, so they don't repeat the mistakes of their past. While I understand not wanting to relive the shame of it, I don't think it's an excuse for not learning about it.
+HrothgarXII the postwar constitution made it mandatory to teach the whole history of the country,but also to prevent it happenning again- Germany must have coalition governments, for instance, state powers are stronger, the military is strictly internal etc
I think that luckily for them, there was no killing in the way that concentration camps had them. I shudder every time I just think of the sites I've been to - the air is heavy and somber as all hell
Muhammad peace be upon me jr.
I give you a 2/10 on the Troll Scale, try better next time
It's Just a Frog, Bro. How's that?
I saw the stone that said remember and it hit me hard
I don't know why I cried during this video but I find it so painful how separated this country was and to see its lasting effects today...
same I teared up.
the Pokemon card.....
I saw the pokémon card
it was a lanturn
When countries are at war, injustice will always happen. I am glad, that all aspects of WWII are beginning to be adressed. I am 50 years old, and when me and my brother went to school here in Denmark, we saw a lot of films about the nazis and all that. But it hasn´t been out in the open, history-wise, how many folks HERE in Denmark SYMPATHIZED with the Nazis, who occupied the country for 5 years. WWII was still only 30 years away, when I grew up, and there was this big consensus, that all Danes were against the occupation, and those, who rooted for Hitler, were dealt with in the aftermath of the war. Now we know a LOT more. Truth shall set us free, and it certainly has come to the light of historical day, HOW many large industries here in Denmark, SOMEHOW made profit from collaborating with the enemy. It proves, that all aspects of history always have some loose ends, and some shameful things, that always come to the light. Our national museum have an exibit these days about Denmark´s colonial past. Denmark had slaves in the Caribbean, and colonized Greenland and an area in India. It is not something, that I didn´t know about already, but it has never been addressed in a Danish museum before. Powerful stuff. History is the MOST IMPORTANT SUBJECT to teach in school!
when the young man respectfully bowed before entering the site, tears were just running down my cheeks.
As a WW2 buff who also had family members who served in WW2. I feel like this is a part of WW2 that is rarely mentioned. I understand why they did it but to put so many people in camps for being from another country is just unreal. I also feel as though american history books try to hide it.
Also people forget the highest decorated unit of soldiers for the Americans were mainly from asian decent. Hawaii, japan, china and so on.
If you really DID understand, then you wouldn't question it. How could you understand but think it's ridiculous? It was for security, call it discrimination but it was a WAR. This has happened time after time in history and it's a matter of strategy.
It happened in Canada too
Japan definitely hides this part of their history from their current generation. I'm from Singapore, and learning about WW2 was a significant part of my Social Studies in Primary school, since well, Singapore was attacked by the Japanese during WW2. But when Japanese exchange students came over, they knew NOTHING about WW2 or what they did to Singapore. Like, nothing. It wasn't a part of their history lessons at all, so yea Japan... Is trying to sweep this under their rugs.
+PretentiousRed in my world history text book-mind you ap-did not at all mention Americas treatment of the Japanese.
could you guys make something like this for Hawaiian history? people need to know more about the injustice of our statehood
oh, you mean the part where the british and americans came to restore order during the turmoil of its own government. give it a few years and the white man decided turn everyone christian, overthrow queen Liliʻuokalani and annex the republic of hawaii. THAT hawaii???
@ka'ili Singlehurst Seconded!
+Will Lowe the only reason the British and the Americans came over was for their own imperialistic ways. Hawaii as a country never asked for any help and were quite isolated. But America, being as imperialistic and capitalistic as it ever will be, barged its way in to create an issue that was never there.
+Next Gaming (Next) damn right now we own it
I agree, we were taught this in school but it'd be great for everyone to know how terrible Hawaiians were mistreated
The US condemed Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan meanwhile at home you had: internment camps, jim crow and much more..
Not much has changed either
yeah we be like that huh?
Yeah totally i bet your so oppressed hear that? That's the worlds smallest violin being played for you .
"Not much has changed" don't know if you've noticed but there's no more Jim crow or internment camps
Quinn Van Nice lol so there’s no similar things
ProfessorDiAMoNDz we don’t have him crow laws today and relatives of Japanese prisoners in America were compensated
I used to work in Newell, CA. and each year a bus would come with people from across the sea to honor the site in Newell Ca. Quite a humbling experience to see this. Might add Italians too were interned during these times. Klamath Falls, Oregon newspaper writes about these folk each year. I'm glad for them to see some common sense in my lifetime to address this and the Holocaust. Thanks Densho.org.
Japanese Americans should talk about this with their families. As a Mexican American my mom always talks to me about Mexicans working in the fields and how they were mistreated badly but how strong they were. It made me more proud to be Mexican American knowing that my people endured such harsh treatment and came out stronger.
The government did a really good job of making our families feel ashamed for appearing different. They even sorted us into different camps based on how loyal to the US they thought we were. It was a constant assault on our pride and traditions. Everything Japanese, down to our language was considered dangerous.
+Mari Ko It's sad isn't it?
That even now after 70 years we still instill fear and prejudice into our children.
Any one who is seen as a minority is seen as a threat and for what?
To make those, who can't even use basic common sense, feel better at night while they sleep.
Even in this day and age, our world is getting smaller and smaller.
Interracial couples and babies are everywhere.
This is where we should be standing up and embracing our differences with each other and learning how important we really are to each other.
I try to teach my children to accept people for who they are, as a valuable member of the Human Race and that fear stands for False. Evidence. Appearing. Real.
I hope we never repeating our sins from the past because those are horrible lessons our future generations of brilliant children don't need.
+Will Lowe
actually most people who do drugs aren't the Mexicans it's White people look up to statistics. And also most Mexican families protect their children from drugs or those in the family who do them for they know we already have a bad name due to them.
a lot of people who went through this dont like to talk about it because it was a really hard time for them. i know for some people talking it out helps, but i think in a lot of families, it's hard for them to bring it up and to discuss it and relive the memories
@@ma-ri-ko May I asked how did the japanese-americans felt about Pearl Harbor VS Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I feel like there is a lack of personal interviews during those moments.
i didnt know jen was part japanese
She's half Japanese, half Italian.
Honest Asian Guy tell them weebs no foreigners are Japanese
Same
I couldn't help but cry watching the video. None of my family indured this event, but it's still not something to take light heartily. Please take the time to learn history, so it doesn't have a chance to repeat itself.
My grandmother was part of Heart Mountain and I think this made me appreciate for who I am now and how thankful I am for my grandmother.
Anyone notice the pokemon card on the grave at 7:31?
me
It is a lanturn card from the primal clash set
+VeeDan yep
+Red Thunder you play pokemon tcg?
Hey my name is Micah too!!!!!
Chinese-Americans visit the Angel Island immigration center (in the SF Bay Area)?
It would be a really good video imo. Currently learned about Angel Island in my US History class so I thought I'd suggest an idea
+jaidacv learning*
+DudestDude nope. I learned it in an earlier unit last month
+jaidacv that would have be past tense, the word currently is present tense by nature. You could you the word recently which would make sense
+jaidacv i meant ur supposed to say"currently learning" cuz what u said didnt make sense
thank you for sharing your stories!! much love to you all
This was a very regrettable period in US history. It is incredibly sad that so many Japanese Americans had to face such oppression and cruelty. My Irish grandfather fought in the US Army in WWII, as did my US grandfather and several great uncles and even my great aunt, who was a military nurse. I have dedicated my life to fighting oppression in order to avoid such horrible discrimination. I am deeply sorry that such discrimination ever took place, and sincerely hope we can work to make US policy more humane.
Jane, they were American citizens. That's the difference. The rule of law has to extend to all people and needs to be respected. There are other ways of looking for spies or malcontent, which usually means reaching OUT to those ethnic communities rather than to vilify them. I can see the same sort of thing happening again these days to other groups of people who have lived in the country for several generations and may even have sons and daughters serving in the US military, or as firemen, or in politics, or as pillars of the community. Suppose you worked as an expat in a foreign country, became a citizen, had kids there and those kids grew up there, and then that country rounded your family up and you were forced to sell your business, leave your belongings and neighborhood, and live in a wooden hut? They also had nowhere else to go; they were US citizens.
AA01 Jane " That camp thing was bad. "
No. Name it for what it is.
It was taking away the rights of born-Americans because of racism. It was taking away everything they owned for racism. It wasn't "bad" it was inhuman, cruel, and racist.
Your mindset is what allowed this to happen. They didn't have anything to do with the Japanese attacks. The Japanese were attacking out of oil neccesity. Not some god awful sneak attack.
Tbh all of American history is regrettable
What the government did was wrong, but you can understand why they did it.
Please.
Hate people sometimes
me too
+Eluwilussit I'm confused as why people jumped say that I am unaware of the systemic racism and micro aggressions that are part of our world. I am well aware of all this, as a minority myself who has experienced these firsthand, so I don't understand why my comment "hate people sometimes", which refers to the acts of cruelty performed by all types of people made you think America's a happy happy place.
+Francesca coffey Lol I'm reading this on my phone and the order of comments loaded incorrectly so I was confused af. But I now get the poibt
+John Lawn their internment was bases solely on their ethnicity. Most of the people interned were faithful American citizens some of the which agreed to serve in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Europe, which is still to this day the most decorated combat unit in American history.
+Chris Eckman If I was forced into a camp, there would be no way I'd volunteer for the country that hated me. But they proved their loyalty. And they still became a really good group of fighters
Germans and Italians were held in camps as well, but their experience was nowhere near as bad as the Japanese. Their camps were more like summer camp, and while they weren't allowed to leave they were treated very well. Skin color mattered.
Viperys Well that was pretty much the point I was trying to make, I guess it was too subtle for you to catch.
Next time I'll use single syllable words so you understand.
+Thessarabian Don't you mean POW's?
You know something's wrong when people are saying "well at least it wasn't as bad as a genocidal regime". Christ it was the United States with a constitution that is meant to uphold the rights of every citizen. It should have been better than that
Japanese bombing harbors is what matters.
JKEMI : No, those were different camps. I'm talking about immigrants from Germany and Italy who were placed in camps for the same reasons as the Japanese.
We just visited the place. It's a must go for everyone...to learn about history so it doesn't repeat itself!
I never knew this happened until an English teacher assigned "Return to Manzanar" when I was 17. This is recent history that we have to remember.
why don't I know about this... literally feel so oblivious. In my country. why really don't I know...
It's sad that this sort of thing isn't taught more in schools. A lot of American history classes only briefly mention bad things America did.
It's sad that you didn't know this when it is taught in Canadian history classes. I learned about this is grade school then again in high school.
You're probably like a lot of youth and only read when someone else instructs you to read (teacher) or you hear about a good book (media and friends). Knowledge is something you have to seek out and strive to obtain. It doesn't fall into your lap. If you wait around for knowledge to come to you, you'll be forever limited by what others want to show you.
+okashi10 I don't she is from the United States though. lol
Same I happy I got to know about this they should really teach this stuff in school
"Take only photos, left only footsteps."
This is real respect
Thanks for sharing your visit and experiences! It's a site I'd like to see one day, but it's hard to imagine ever getting there. I appreciated the info, and you sharing your experiences of such a serious part of your family histories.
It still amazes me how I never learned about our American past. This was never taught to me in history class, I learned about this from my grandmother and historical documentaries. America needs to learn to teach everything, not just our historical good sides.
Mikayla Gaydon i learned from reading a story in English literature, but not in history class.
I think it's brave when citizens of a country acknowledge the awful things that were done in the past, so good work buzzfeed - I think my country would need to do that also - I'm French and sometimes I'm appalled to see how people don't really know about colonization and other things...
American history is so dark and embarrassing
Yea it has its dark moments but it's bright spots as well. Eventually a few hundred years from now hopefully we'll keep moving forward. Remember, America is a relatively brand new country. Make mistakes, learn from them.
so is every countries stop acting like america is the only country with bad historu
+Viperys never said its the only country just stating the facts.
Human history is so dark and embarassing
Azra BH every countries history is dark and embarrassing. No country has a squeaky clean history
I went there a few months ago. The feeling I had after visiting the place was something I didn't expected to feel. I was amazed at what people did with what they had while at the same time a deep sadness at the whole situation.
It’s scary to think that this is what we’re doing to a lot of Middle Eastern families
That fact that his granddad was named Paul after Paul Revere, yet was forced into those circumstances... The cruel irony made me tear up.
Just one thing to say to those guys who said they deserve this : go google the most decorated regiment in american history.
I'm glad you guys got to go do this, and thank you for sharing this very personal experience. There is something so surreal and deeply wounding and powerful to see this directly like this, to see this current generation juxtaposed with the historical site that was running just two generations ago.
Thank you for posting this, tbh I wasn't even aware of this part of history..
How could anyone dislike this:(
Yes I'm telling you not to dislike
How w could you
They're acting as if they killed them all. Go to Japan during WW2 and you'll see American's, Chinese and other Asian countries being tortured, starved, medically experimented on and set to work in jungles where diseases went rampent by the Japanese. When you consider both sides, the Japanese-Americans had it good.
Kap00rwith2os Pretty much. Is that meant to be an argument?
google unit 731 and stop trying to sympathize with axis powers.
As a half-Japanese person descended from Japanese-Americans -- It's really important to make the distinction between Japanese nationals and Japanese people residing in the US. Were there horrific warcrimes committed by the Japanese imperial government? Of course. I think any nikkei (Japanese-related people outside of Japan) would agree to their atrocities. But the fact is, my family members who were interned had nothing to do with that. They were immigrants and American-born children of immigrants who were very wrongly imprisoned. A huge population of Japanese-American people lost a good chunk of their lives to be detained. My grandma could recall stories of horrific racism against her family and her friends as a child. To argue that they had ANYTHING to do with Pearl Harbor and/or military warcrimes committed in other countries is hugely disrespectful and frankly a bit frustrating. Please think things through before making such awful remarks.
I never heard about these camps in school. I am glad to have learned today. What a tragic story :(
Now you can imagine how the nativ amerikans feel the last 150 years!
Frankly, I'm shocked there is a memorial... when it's something we've done wrong, we have a tendency to either sweep it under the rug or give just the barest amount of details. I'd very much like to see this place and pay my respects.
In school I never learned about Americans having Japanese camps (I'm British so I suppose they focused on Britain, France And Germany) but I was wondering, what did people at these camps have to do all day?
farewell to manzanar is a memoir from that time. excellent read and talks about what they did before, during, and after the internment camps.
Not really anything, just sit for hours maybe play basketball, but it was better than hitlers
www.nps.gov/manz
Eventually they had some camps help with the war effort and make stuff for the army. They also had "schools" for the kids as well. One thing in history that i found interesting is despite the situation one of the camps (can't remember which one) held a senior prom.
Just so you know they were treated well, so they didnt get abused or anything
Literally every comment says "Omg so many racist people here." I haven't seen one racist comment.
probably cause theyre being washed out by comments like urs lol
I'm so glad there aren't as many as I expected to see.
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That's weird because I see so many comments saying that Japanese-Americans deserved this because of Japan's war atrocities (as if Japanese-Americans and the national Japanese military are the same thing).
IKR
Wow, thank you for doing this. I had no idea this happened.
We as a nation need to own up to this. We rarely talk about this in school and it's very often minimized. I can only think of one history class where we truly went over this and the injustice of it. I am so sorry for the pain that was caused and for everything that was taken away from innocent people.
7:32 there's a Pokemon card
lol
What Pokemon is it tho? It's got green on the picture but has dig? Maybe a grass ground type lmao maybe, that gen 4 grass starter maybe? XD
Dat Lanturn
It says dive and it's a Lanturn, which is blue and yellow.
it's a lanturn from gen 3 I think, it's water-electric
History repeats itself, anyone think that with the political climate these days the next internment camps might be for American Muslims?
That's what I was thinking.
I fear that and hope that will never happen. Sadly tho, it's a possibility.
trump actually cited japanese internment camps. its scary.
+unreal donald trump trump openly supported the idea of a nazi regime type filing and badging system for Muslims with ID cards and badges they wear in public, while Hillary I don't know as much about, from what I've heard she wants war with Russia. I'm not American so I'm not greatly familiar with us politics but my understanding is we're all fucked
Look up Snopes he never said for marking muslims, he said migrants should be reviewed and have to register to a database. What utter lies you're telling.
Wow. How come I've been watching Buzzfeed since 2011 & have just now found this is June 2018. *Why was this never in my reccomendations!*
I imagine it must have taken the group a very, very long time to process all they'd seen and learned. We only saw eight minutes selected from a life-changing experience for them. I'm so glad they made this video, and that the story of the Japanese internment camps is becoming better known as the years go by. We can't allow ourselves, as a nation, to forget doing this.
Why haven't my school taught me this??
u an american ?
Why haven't your school taught you basic english?
Wow those mountains look incredible!
Ikr!
No matter where u are in socal, those r the mountains u see, pretty cool
Although German Americans were not placed in internment camps, they also faced hardships during WWII. Given that Germany was on the cover of almost every front cover news article and were portrayed often in propaganda, Germans were perceived as vile. This led to segregation between German Americans and the American society. German Americans even grew afraid of speaking their own native language, as some citizens would in turn label them as the enemy and vandalize their homes and property. Some even went as far as to attack them. For those that owned shops, they would soon run out of business as people didn't want others to learn they were associated with that country. I myself am not German, but I just wanted to share what in learned in AP US History.
My gramps was in Heart mountain internment camp. Told us he used to sneak out with his friends and climb mountains.
Thanks for noticing them
I am Japanese American and I have never seen a camp. But my grandparents always talk about the experience they had and how lucky this generation is. We are so lucky to have a roof over our heads. Some of these people had to live in 100 degree weather. My grandpa got transferred many time from Alaska to Arizona. But this is truly amazing to see.
May I asked how did the Japanese-American felt about during the bombing of Pearl Harbor VS Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Oddly enough we did learn about this in elementary schools. The teacher I had had so much knowledge and respect on the subject...
Im SOOOO thankful for Buzzfeed for making this video and making more people aware of this situation. Growing up in Hawaii where Pearl Harbor happened - where THIS started - just amazes me how little people dont know about the history and our wrongful treatment to JAPANESE AMERICANS during this time.
Just goes to show that victors write the history books- I had no idea about this.
Someone: this is a very sad but intriguing place.
Ryan: (wheeze)
Exactly I went driving from Santa Monica California to Reno Nevada I passed right past the site and didn't even know you can rest assure I'm going to go back and make a stop I love history like this good or bad
What says on the obelisk is "A Monument for the Solace of the Souls (of the Deceased)."
As an East Asian American from the East Coast, I feel like I should visit the West Coast because it has a much richer and more unfortunate Asian American history. Any East Coast AAPIs here?
Goes to Asian comment section: Sees nothing but respect
Goes to "Angry Black Women" comment section: Sees racist pricks
Thank you guys for doing this video. I had family at Manzanar. Keep it going. Pass it on.
This is beautiful. I def teared up watching this.
I may be Chinese but I really felt sorry for those innocent Japanese-Americans that they must suffer in this camp. 😢😢
Imagine if there is ever an armed conflict with China. Considering the current leadership in this country I would not be surprised if this would repeat itself.
@@markman63 Sadly, some people never learn from History. As a Chinese guy myself, I am terrified at the thought of history repeating itself.
Land of the free, huh? and they still had to salute the flag and pledge allegiance to the country that incarcerated them every day in school...
+Ma St. And yet some still joined the US army to prove their loyalty.
Honestly, this was 60+ years ago. Of course it wasn't free back then. But the US is getting better - you literally cannot deny it.
+Ma St Your joking right?
*****
Defending concentration camps.. you are just a disgusting PS!
*****
Sure.. I'm the reason. YOu people are the reason so many useless wars are being fought! get lost, fuckhead!
I’m glad I stumbled across this videos because in social studies my teacher just grazed over this topic
At 7:05 sean bowed down when he entered the cemetery my heart❤
am I the only one who thinks Hitomi looks like Ashley? Maybe they are sisters
Ashly is Filipino-Cuban
Ashly Perez is not Japanese....
do all Asians look alike to you?
+SantomPh She just thought they looked alike, jesus, calm down
+SantomPh yes
Yes some look alike and it's just a question
Y'all like the black people get so offensive
If you don't call this racism, then why German Americans weren't put through the same situation?
good point
because they were white
There were German internment camps throughout the United States during both WWI and WWII.
they were....
Both Germans and Italians were briefly detained, but ultimately released after a few months. Nobody was forced to relinquish possessions or property and not all families were targeted.
really cool how buzzfeed is allowing its employees (especially employees from marginalized identities) come forward and share their stories, and truths, and histories. definitely my favorite kind of videos by far
This is horrifying! I honestly did not know about this at all. I see all the comments about how the American education system don't mention it much, the Norwegian one doesn't mention it at all! I'm glad videos like this is being made to educate us, still. It's an eyeopener - and though it's not a pleasant one, it's a necessary one.
That was pretty interesting. As a Japanese American who was born in Japan, but raised in America, I can totally relate. From one side I can see the American perspective and from the other side, I can see the Japanese perspective. Indeed life in America hasn't always been easy. I was bullied growing up for my looks and ethnicity, since I wasn't your typical caucasian person. There were times that I wish I wasn't Japanese, that I wish I was Caucasian. But now a days, I'm proud of my heritage.
Have them visit the Unit 731 Memorial next.
and what did japanese americans have anything to do with that..? the racism is showing :|
i wish buzzfeed did more videos like this.
In Hawaii, My grandparents were lucky enough to be business owners, which in our state, allowed them to be exempt from being sent to a camp even though they lived (and still live) only five minutes from Pearl Harbor. Unfortunately, many others were not so lucky. My heart goes out to all those who have suffered