For this research paper, I am choosing The Japanese American Internment and the war relocation camps that followed during World War II. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, a huge sense of racism swept the nation and almost all Japanese-Americans were stripped of their property and relocated into miserable and abusive internment camps. This controversial part of our history needs to be reevaluated and further taught more prominently as it is a major shortfall in our American history. I also believe that it is a major lesson in history that can still be applied to today's society. For example, just because America was attacked by Arabic Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001, does not mean that American-Arabs or Muslims shared any part of the anti-American sentiment that the terrorists did. It is an important lesson because it proves that America must respect and not look down upon the ethnicity that America happens to be at war with or had been attacked by. To assume that the Japanese-Americans living in America in 1942 were spies and had anything to do with the attacks on Pearl Harbor was plain speculation based off racist ideals and no solid facts, yet Franklin D. Roosevelt signed off on the internment of Japanese-Americans. It is a shameful event in American history indeed, but it is a lesson worth teaching.
