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Japanese American Internment Video Comparison by Ariel N

The first video is about the Internment of Japanese Americans by the United States Government. The message this video was trying to convey is the Japanese were happy where they were placed. The Japanese Americans were not happy. They were not allowed out of their camps. I would not be happy. I do not believe that it tells an accurate portrayal of The Japanese Americans. The video shows them as happy and demonstrates them having free will. They had free will inside the camp because it was gated shut. They could not go anywhere else. At one point the video justified that they left back everything they built, lived, and or bought. If that were me I would have not been “happy” as the video said i would have been miserable if i were in such certain circumstances. I am quite sure they weren’t either. The video also established that an army practically built their camps within 24-hours. There was no way the camps were suitable for the children. The video also confirms that it was a racetrack filt with 17,00 persons/people the place had to have been so congested. They were used to living in the US, then being all squished together is a drastic change. They had to have been uncomfortable. I would be.

The second video is the complete opposite of the first one. This one shows how miserable the Japanese Americans were. I do absolutely agree this video is an accurate/honest portrayal. I think this because they truly stated what was happening at the camps. One of the first things the video establishes that they were surrounded by barbed wire and guard traps. They were technically imprisoned. From my perspective, that is what happened in real time. Judging from the video that was not what they were told would happen. The video also states that all families where given a small one room apartment, blanket, and a small heating stove, if there was a big family there would be no room, they would all be squashed together and i would not like that even with my family. The video also justifies that they were under 24-hour surveillance. They are being watched like ‘cats and dogs’ and have zero privacy. Privacy is a really good thing to have. It makes people feel a lot more comfortable, they already had to have been uncomfortable from moving and pushed together. I can only imagine. This video establishes that the Japanese Americans were not home for 3 years and when they got back all their belongings were gone. They had nothing left. I would have expected to not have much or that my home could have potentially been someone else’s.The sad thing was the government knew what they were putting them into, they knew that they would go homeless and not have food they knew they wouldn’t have been able to help or support them. I feel like if I was put in that situation that I likely would have gone somewhere else. 

Based on how the government painted a rosy and happy picture about it, we have learned it wasn’t all ‘rainbows’. In my opinion the second video is more of an accurate portrayal of what happened to The Japanese americans. The events shown in video 2 are more realistic.

Japanese Internment Video Comparison by Austin I

In the first video made by the U.S government, the video tryes to convoy a message that the Japanese population living among the U.S population coperated wholehartedly in going to the camps. It also trys to convoy that it went easy for them after Pearl Harbor. I do not think the video tells an accurate portrayal of the Japanese-Americans. In the video it says that the U.S government helped tennents sell there farms for a good sum of mony. It also says that the government provided trucks for the Japanese to put there personal things in. In the video it said the army provided busses for the evacuees and they coopreated wholehartedly. In the video the narriator said that at the camps the army provided healthful nourising food for all. In the video it said that some of the Japanese made camoflage nets for the United States military.

In the second video made by the History channel, tryes to convoy a message that the Japanesse we treated terribly after Pearl Harbor. I think the second video tells an accurate portrayal of how the Japanese-Americans were treated after Pearl Harbor. In the video it says the residents were forced to sell their homes and their busness for small sums of money. Also the video states that internment camps were often situated in isolated deserts and surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers. It also said that the people lived in small one room apartments with little privicy and constent surveillance. The video said that they were only given a standered army cot, blankets, and a small heating stove. The video states that only 35% of Americans thought that Japanese-Americans should return home after the war.

I believe the second video tells a more accurate portrayal of Japanese-American Internment because in the first video they act like the Japanese-Americans were treated great in the camps. In the second video they tell the truth and talk about the conditions they were actualy kept in. An example is the first video saying the camps provided healthful nourising food for all and skipping out on the harsh winters and the barbed wire. The second video talked about all of that. Another example is the first video saying that the government helped the Japanese-Americans sell their houses and bussness for a good sum of money. In the second video it was said that the govenment made the Japanese-Americans sell their houses for a small sum of money. There are my reasonings as to why I thing the second video portrays the Internment of the Japanese-Americans better than the first one.

Japanese Internment Video Comparison by Mercedes H

This video by the U.S. government conveyed how the Japanese-Americans could be spies or cause problems by being loyal to Japan. I believe that this video is an inaccurate portrayal. The details in the video say they are afraid of sabotage, existing bias towards Japanese, forced to sacrifice and give up belongings, roughing self-government ran by Japanese-Americans and starting from scratch in the desert.

The message in the video conveyed the events before Japan attacked us and how things escalated to the war. I believe that this is an accurate portrayal of how the Japanese-Americans were treated. The Americans were treated badly. The details from the video shows that ⅔ were native-born Americans, they were given not too long to sell their homes and belongings, internment camps were put into isolated deserts, they lived in one-room apartments and public opinions became to worsen.

In conclusion I believe that the second video was more accurate than the first one because they were more open with their video while the other one was hiding some details. For example, in the second video they showed how the Japanese-Americans were isolated in the internment camps with bad weather conditions while in the first one they did not include that piece of information so the U.S. government did not look bad.

Japanese Internment Video Comparison by Jesus F-R

The message the U>S was trying to convey through the video was that Japanese Americanas were free in the internment camps. I do not think that this was an accurate portrayal of japanese america. The US makes it seem as though the  Japanese Americans living here were a danger to us, but many of them were American citizens. It showed them becoming their own community in the internment camps and opening their own schools. I think they shouldn’t have had to be their own community when many of them were already American citizens. They were free, but the army guards the perimeter of the camp. The video says all the japanese-americans cheerfully went and signed the stacks of paperwork needed for them to evacuate, but they didn’t look happy or free with many of them jammed together in one room trying to sign paperwork. I also feel having to get rid of their businesses and homes proves they weren’t really free. The U.S video tried to portray Japanese americans in internet camps as free, but I don’t think they were.

The second video shows us what japanese-americans really went through in internment camps. I think it was an accurate description of what they went through. We saw the rough weather conditions they dealt with. We also see they had to sell their land and property, which was not fair as they did nothing to America. Many of them also fought for us in the war, but were still kept in camps after the war was over. They were treated completely unfairly. They were all stuffed into small rooms with whole families in one room. Their camp was surrounded by barbed wire so they couldn’t just leave. The Japanese-Americans were treated poorly by the U.S.

I think the second video was a more accurate description of the Japanese-Americans in internment camps. The second one shows how they were treated poorly with whole families in one room. The first one tried to say they weren’t treated poorly.

Japanese Internment Video Comparison by Riley C.

In the first video I believe it is very innacurate because, it starts off with a man explaining why they need to relocate the Japanese-Americans and they do so by making it so the Japanese-Americans can volounteer to leave by themselves but eventually the government says it’s mandatory and they send buses and moving trucks to the Japanese-Americans. The video makes it seem like being an internment camp was fun and good for them, like they say that its the Japanese-Americans way of giving help to the war effort, then the U.S. government left all women and children in their homes. The government also moved the Japanese away from any critical areas which made them isolated from society which is wrong. They also called the Japanese-Americans Japs which is a slur used in a derogetory manner.

In the second the message I believe is accurate because it says the Japanese were forced to go into these camps. the Japanese were citizens as well but the Americans and the Government resented them by ruining their economy. They were also alienated from everyone else. the rooms in their camps were very small and cramped. The video even shows how their schooling was not very good.

I believe the second video is more accurate to what really happened in history.

Japanese Internment Video Comparison by Lennon T

The first video talks about putting Japanese people in camps because America is scared that Japanese people are going to side with the Empire of Japan . They called japanese people Japs, Savages and Animals.

The message the second video is trying to convey is that Japanese people were forced to be in camps. This is true because they are United State citizens but were still resented by the United States government because they said they were ruining them economically.they were isolated from everyone and everything at the camps. The rooms were small and not private. They didn’t have a good schooling system. 

The second video shows more of what happened in America with Japanese people.

Japanese Internment Video Comparison by Matt S

The first video was based off a propaganda statement about the U.S. Gov. thinking the Japanese Americans betrayed the U.S and the U.S are trying to convince everyone that why they should be thrown into camps. and about the camps. All Japanese Americans where forced to move to a headquarters known as a concentration camp for after Pearl Harbor was attacked.The Army brought there belongings to the camps. The camps were in isolated deserts and surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers. They lived in 1 bedroom apartments. only 35% of people thought they should be allowed to go back home. On December 17 1944 The Japanese evacuees were allowed to go back home . The U.S Gov. didn’t really go into detail about how accurate portrayal of the Japanese Americans.

The second video was based on the Japanese Americans and how they were thrown around by the U.S and the U.S Gov. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans where taken to camps because people thought they would be disloyal. 2/3 of Japanese Americans where taken to the camps even though they where born in america . They where forced to sell there belongings for very small prices.When they went home they found there homes looted and there passions gone. Work was super hard to come by and many thought they where homeless. .This video shows a great Representation on how the U.S Gov. portrayed the Japanese Americans and how badly they were treated.

I personally think that the 2nd video was the best video because it was a lot of details in not that long of a video and it was very understandable for me.The second video was more about just the Japanese Americans being portrayed by the U.S Gov. and very mistreated and thrown to the ground. The first video talked about both sides but Also left out how badly the U.S treated the Japanese american and it was mostly just propaganda. it was more about the U.S Gov. So, if we where to do this again i would personally use the second video because it was overall better all around.

Japanese Internment Video Comparison by Dash G

First Video

The messages in the video were about how they wanted all Japanese people out of the way.I believe they got in the way of us destroying the invaders,but this statement is accurate because i believe it tells portrayal about japanese-americans .The 5 details I have from the video are,They transferred several thousands Japanese Americans residents from the pacific coast to point towards American interior.The 2nd,when the japanese attacks pearl harbor they tried to make our west coast a warzone and the united states were not having it.The 3rd detail, the japanese tried invade the shores of Los Angeles and the japanese people in America were helping them , by the way there was more japanese people than americans in Los Angeles.The 4th detail,The japanese controlled the shipyards,oil wells and airports they were all over the place covering the city.The last detail, they made all japanese people get away from the shore and move into inland they even put posters on the poles for them.These are my 5 details about the first video.

SECOND VIDEO

 The message in the second video was about the Japanese Americans and what happened to them before the war was about to happen.I do believe that it tells an accurate portrayal of the Japanese Americans.On december 7th 1941 the empire of japan launch a attack on the base pearl harbor.Japanese-Americans were sent to camps because of the united states thought that they were disloyal(there was many immigrants at this time).FDR signed a Executive order in 1942 on february 19th.Then FDR put ten big camps around the world filling them with japanese americans, there was  120,000 of them just in the western part of USA.The camps where open for 3 years and they were isolated in the middle of the hot arizona desert.During the war people were going broke and needed money so they started to sell their building for extra money.The Japanese got a chance to fight for the americans and that’s what they did.After the war was over the remaining people that came back from the war they got sent back to their homes,even the people in the camps everyone got sent home.These are my 5 details about the second video and my opinion.

I believe the second video tells more about the situation with the Japanese Americans.The reason why i said this is because,it tells us what happen to them before the war started and what they did in course of the war.I believe the second video gives out more input on how they survive,what they did,how they did it and information about the war.This is why i choose the 2nd video to support the details.

Japanese Internment Video Comparison by Chance S

In the first video the United States of America showed the american people that the japanese were not human they were called japs a racial term to discriminate against them they also put them in camps.

 Many of the people who were of Japanese descent were put into internment camps because the United States were scared of Japanese people going on the side of the Empire Of Japan and they already had a problem with them racially so FDR decided to put them in camps. 

This is not good for Japanese people because they are humans, not a different species. They called them savages and animals not humans so they forced many American citizens into those camps.The second video was better because it told you more of what they had to go through such as  the small rooms they had to live in, isolation and no privacy it was harsh for them. 

Japanese Internment Video Comparison by Eva F.

The first video- 

The first video talks about how the government and the military helped the Japanese-Americans evacuate the area. The US citizens thought the Japanese-Americans were threats, especially since Pearl Harbor was bombed just a few days ago. The military built these internment camps, where the Japanese-Americans were guarded and they lived there. Some of the events in the video did not sound very true to me. I do not think this video accurately portrays the Japanese-Americans during this time. A few reasons why I think this could include, first the narrator called the Japanese-Americans ‘aliens’. Aliens are not real and do not exist. The Japanese-Americans were real people born in America. Another reason could be the narrator made the internment camps sound like small apartment houses. We learn later the internment camps were not little apartments. The narrator made it sound like life went back to normal, after the Japanese-Americans evacuated. The next reason I think this isn’t accurate is that the narrator called the internment camps ‘assembly centers’. They are not assembly centers. That is where the Japanese-Americans live. The fourth reason is I don’t think the video portrayed the community’s social aspect nicely. The narrator made it sound like there were all these teachers, doctors, priests, and more, when really the camps were guarded, and the Japanese-Americans were in isolation. Lastly the narrator says the Japanese-Americans ‘gave up’ their homes and small businesses, when really they were forced to leave and many of them went homeless, once they returned home. 

 

The second video-

It talks about the military and the government helping the Japanese-Americans evacuate as well. The person telling the story was saying how the Japanese-Americans immigrants were not allowed in the United States, because of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Some of these events sounded mostly accurate. I think this video is accurate for a couple of reasons. One being the narrator had said ⅔ of them were American born citizens. They went to the internment camps, the US citizens who did not go to the camps, thought the Japanese-Americans were disloyal, which had caused them to be put in the camps, which is about 66% of the population in the western United States. The narrator had mentioned there were about 120,000 Americans, in all of the 10 camps. Another reason I think this is accurate is because of the barbed wire surrounding the camps. Barbed wire originated from the US in 1847. It also just seems like an American thing to do. The narrator, the storyteller, had said the Japanese-Americans were in isolation and had little privacy, whereas the other video made it sound like they had a tiny house. The story teller had also said the people were under harsh surveillance with little warmth in their living spaces. This was because the camps were in deserted areas of the western United States. The next reason is the narrator had said there was a big community, which made life more normal. I think that is pretty accurate except I still don’t know how they got all those teachers, doctors, and priests to come in. 

Although both videos told the same story, I think the second video told the more accurate version. More of the events that happened sound more true. Because the narrator of the first video had called the Japanese-Americans ‘aliens’, I believe that is not accurate and false. The Japanese-Americans were born in America. They are actual American citizens. Asian immigrants were known as ‘economic threats’. But they aren’t threats, they didn’t do anything to hurt the US.