Japanese American Culture Essay

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On the morning of December 7, 1941,Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor towards the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor.It was a surprise military strike and officially brings the United States into World War II. The day after Pearl Harbor, public attitude along the Pacific began to turn against Japanese Americans living on the West Coast.The Japanese-American lawyers and doctors that performed their duties properly lost their licence without warning.Japanese-Americans who lived by fishing was forbidden the sea.Insurance company somehow canceld insurance policies of Japanese-Americans.Such many industry refused to continue serving the Japanese-Americans. Two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, February 19, …show more content…
In 1940, 1,237,000 people of German birth lived in the United States... Further, if one considered the children of families in which both parents were German-born, the number of Germans reached 5 million and, counting families with one German-born parent, the number rose of 6 million. A population of that size had political muscle; the industrial northeast, the midwest and the northern plains states all had substantial German American voting blocs. Radical measures such as exclusion or detention would have carried a very heavy political cost.( "Why Were There No Internment Camps for German-American ..." N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2016.