What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean - Book Report/Review Example

            The internment process did not reflect political choices as it reflected racial choices.  The reason behind this is that even before World War 2, most Americans were skeptical of the Japanese as they feared that they would take their jobs and acquire property. Some of them began to form convents to inhibit them from acquiring property. Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor escalated their hatred of the Japanese people living in America. After the attack, the internment process began where Japanese Americans were put in camps until the end of the World War. They did this out of fear that they would assist their fellow Japanese to launch another attack.

            Most American civilians were suspicious of the loyalty of the Japanese-Americans living in that region and petitioned the Government to approve the removal of all inhabitants of Japanese ancestry. They were removed and forced to live in concentration camps just because of their race and had to sell their possessions before going to the camps. The reason behind this was to solely weaken the Japanese-Americans as they had started to replace the Americans in their work fields. Thus the main reason for internment was racially driven and not politically driven.