Hypocrites in North America

I was unsettled that America and Canada had Internment camps because it is hypocritical to our principals. We were trying to stop the genocide of the Jews in the concentration camps yet we are using the same methods they Nazis did. “Racism” “she answered herself. The Nazis are everywhere,” Shows that the Asian Canadians are seeing the treatment of them and how closely it mirrored that of the Jews. (Kogawa, 45). I believe that if we are going to war to stop a man who is doing evil things to a select group of people, then we shouldn’t be doing the same thing to a different group of people. It is hypocritical no racism is should be tolerated no matter the cost. We were taking everything they have from them and persecuting them for being Asian American. Yes it is true that fear makes people do crazy things and increases paranoia but does that give us the right to persecute innocent people. I knew that the United States had internment camps but I cannot believe that Asian Americans were treated worse in Canada. I knew that America had racist problems and was not surprised however, I did not know that Canada did as well I have heard that it was a friendly place. Maybe the United States pressured the Canadians to also feed this fear of the Asian American and Canadians. I believe that the reason people were so open to let things like this happen is because of war. They used war as an excuse to treat a group of people badly and not get caught with being inhumane because now they can say that “we are protecting our country” when in reality we were just being paranoid and prejudice to a group of people. Another way to justify it is that the internment camps were not killing off people they were only “housing them” but the persecution still had its emotional scars. “… They took away our land, the stores, the businesses, the boats, the houses, -everything. Broke up our families, told us who we could see, where we could live, what we could do, what time we could leave our houses, censored our letters, exiled us for no crime, they took our lively hood…” this quote shows the pain they went through and how much it was like a dictatorship. America was supposed to be the land of the free and then we turn around and pull this just because we did not try to kill off the race does not make it even better then what the Nazis tried to do. I am happy that the United States tried to reimburse the pain they had caused on the Asian Americans but how much can money buy? How will money erase the pain and suffering, the alienation, American born citizens had to go through. Money and land cannot take away those dark stories and memories nor can it change time. Money can only fix so much pain.