Naive Perspective: A Japanese Internment Story

Local San Diego born and raised, Japanese Internment survivor Ruth Voorhies tells her experience during World War 2 when her family was placed in the Poston Arizona Japanese Internment camp. The experience was a tragic event that never should have happened and was a violation of American rights. It had been argued in the 1970-80s that the Japanese internment camps were concentration camps. However, we show that the camps were in no way similar to concentration camps and that the unfortunate experience was based on what you make of the situation. There are 3 parts....

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Education

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• Japanese Internment Camps
• World War 2
• Concentration Camps

[oluham]

The internment, of course. Strangely enough, no italians or germans were interred.

[vikingship09]

@oluham

Okay, I thought you meant the video :). Yeah, I completely agree. It was totally against their rights but because everyone was so freaked out it got by, unfortunately.

[oluham]

A disgrace.

[vikingship09]

@oluham The movie or the internment?

[ktboredforever]

thank you so much! this is so emotional. I am using parts of this for my big project in school. The only weird part in this movie is the random part at the end on WWII.:)

[vikingship09]

@ktboredforever

I'm glad you like it. This is just a one part of three which is why there's that WW2 thing at the end. There is also another version that I made that cuts that part out. It's the very first one on my channel, it's like 7 minutes long.

Good luck on your project!

[FGsGFdG2]

Ironically, very few Japanese were interned in Hawaii, the site of the Pearl Harbor attacks and home to a large Japanese American population. To do so would have been untenable, since the Japanese made up such a large proportion of the population.

[MsJokap]

Would you be okay with it if I used some of this (audio only) for a project I am doing?

[TheHouseOffice]

That's why no one paid attention to Interment camps. Because the Nazi concentration camps were the main focus of the public eye, so the American Government knew they could get away with it.

Fucked. Up.

[IdiosoAmericano]

I am from Seattle.

Born and raised. Its a shame that this is something that isn't talked about in our history classes. Its a black mark of history that our generation doesn't even know about.

Look at it like this. A popular fair here in WA called the "Puyallup Fair" used to be a assembly center for Japanese Americans. Unfortunately, hundreds that go to this fair don't know that the ground which they are on, was once a holding of proud citizens.

[4eversaintz]

hello friends :) I am japanese and offended!! sike im a beaner ahaha GO MEXICO!!!!!!!

[rivierasilver]

my grandfather went to heart mountain wyoming, just a dark phase on american history

[yankeegal01]

@oluham That is incorrect. During WWII some German Americans were sent to Internment Camps. In WWII approximately 11,000 German-Americans were interred, accounting for 36% of the total number of individuals interred. German-American Internment Camps were located in TX, FL, OK, ND and TN. About 250 Italian-Americans were also interred in TX, TN, OK and MT. All Italian-Americans, German-Americans and the Japanese-American were required to register.