George Takei - The Lesson of Internment
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Uploaded by asiasociety on Apr 30, 2008
Actor George Takei of Star Trek fame on becoming an actor, and lessons from his father on the Japanese internment and American democracy. In celebration of Asian Pacific Heritage Month! Also, join George Takei and other prominent Asian Americans - watch our callout video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWey0hhi3Dw and tell us what being Asian American means to you!
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@NihilistSlacker japan killed enemies, these white americans prisoned their own u.s. citizens.
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@ttiiyy True but so what? The people living in modern day China have it better off than people living back in Maoist China, does that mean they don't get to complain? Complaining is actually very useful when it comes to bettering your situation. Complaining over things like 'tea taxes' is part of what led to great things like the American Revolution.
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Way to go, George! You da man!
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@ttiiyy that is true that the Japanese army was horrible but remember that the majority of Japanese Americans probably left japan because they didn't like how the Japanese government conducted business also the majority of the Japanese interned were children
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lesson learned from internment is that our military suffered little from espionage.
because we interned and relocated potential japanese agents. The internment
worked . Ezio Horie wrote , Records of a japanese intelligence officer on the
Japanese imperial general staff, and he states that the internment and relocation
destroyed the their espionage network in the U.S. . The kempia tia ( japanese secret military police) had been inserting agents into the U.S.
since 1918.
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BABABOOEY!!!!
he blew brad!!!!
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Takei is extremely intelligent. A great man.
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You can call him a fag, but don't call him tiny
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@zachthezombie: My wife met him a while back at a convention, and spoke to him in Japanese. Though not a native speaker, my wife says his Japanese is pretty good, though possibly not his first language.
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Japanese Americans are already 100 times luckier than the victims that died in the hands of the Japanese Army.
These people never had a chance to complain before they were killed in the most brutal ways!
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George Takei is such a unique person. He is a gentleman in every sense of the word and he has a terrific sense of humour.
I'm not Asian, or even American. I'm Irish and I think stereotypes are mainly perpetuated through ignorance. I think that different cultures shouldn't be used to separate people, but to bring them together with a view to sharing different perspectives on life. We're all people and through seeing the world from another point of view we can learn more about ourselves.
dyndan19 3 years ago 38
wow. he has such as great speaking voice. lol. he sounds so regal.
toki211 3 years ago 23