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The movie, "Come See the Paradise" was about the challenges that a Japanese American family faced after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Before the bombing, the Japanese were segregated from the whites, but were treated okay. After Pearl Harbor, many people started to mistreat Japanese people. In the movie, many people were setting Japanese businesses on fire, and they wouldn't allow them to come into non-Japanese places. Also, people who immigrated from Japan weren't allowed to marry white people, or become citizens. America had two main enemies in World War II, and they were Japan and Germany. Shortly after Pearl Harbor, Japanese American people were sent to internment camps, but German American people were not. In these camps, people had to sleep in barns, and there were communal bathrooms, and one large cafeteria. There were soldiers who were constantly patroling the camps, and the Japanese people were not allowed to leave. They were also forced to take a multiple question test on their loyalty to the United States. If they answered that they were loyal, they would be able to leave the camp for work, or join the army. At the end of the movie, the Japanese family is basically ruined, because the father is dead, one of the brothers is dead, the other brother moved back to Japan, and the family's home was destroyed.

I think that this movie shows us that we should never take away somebody's freedom, just because we are going to war with the country that they are from. The Japanese people who were living in America had nothing to do with Japan bombing Pearl Harbor, and it wasn't right that we put them in the camps. It was also really racist, because we were also at war with Germany, but no Germans were put in camps. This movie is relevant to today, because we have learned our lesson from World War II. We are now in war in Iraq, but thankfully, we have not put any imigrants from Iraq in internment camps. I think that being an American means that you are loyal to our country, regardless of where you are from, or what is going on in your country.