Japanese Internment....

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It is funny how growing up, in history classes that we take from grade school through high school,
we are taught certain things about life in America and what it means to be American. A reason I am writing this response is to analyze Okihiro's article on the Japanese Internment camps. I can say for myself, from grade school and high school, I was NEVER taught about these camps. I was taught about how evil the Nazi's were and how wrong the Japanese were for attacking us at Pearl Harbor. The Axis of Evil, Germany, Japan and Italy. Those were the real EVIL...It is so incredible how we leave this information out of the general information we are taught as young adolescents about World War II history. It is rather sad and deceiving that during this war, we are taught that we were the victim, Pearl Harbor, and that we were the good guy and did nothing wrong but in reality we forced 120.000 Japanese Americans into camps very similar to what that of Jews were put in during World War II. I think that whatever committe decides what should be taught to young adolescents, especially those that are in high school, should give some detail and facts from both sides, of the horrors that were committed.