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“Come See the Paradise” Movie on Japanese Internment during World War 2

Throughout the movie there were many prime examples portraying what Japanese-Americans had experienced prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and there afterwards. For example, no Japanese and American citizens were seen in theaters together. Japanese-Americans were not allowed to become legal citizens of the United States. They could not get married in the state of California; if they wanted to they had to go to another state mile away like Washington. Families that needed to borrow money from the banks could not borrow money from American banks, so the families had to borrow money from one another. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, all of the Japanese-Americans living in America were forced to leave there homes, and were relocated to the Midwest. The living conditions were very harsh. For example, there were no private bathrooms. Families were often separated. Many people were packed into a very small area. There were fights. The police can and took you away without ever telling you why.

I think that this movie was very sad. It was hard to believe that this only happen less than 2 generations ago. I mean my grandma was alive during the great depression and World War 2 and I am always asking her what life was like for her family. It’s a shame that those Japanese had to go through that difficult time in there history. It’s also very sad to see that as Americans we thought that they were spies for the Japanese government. I bet you if any of them were alive today, they would say, “They are not spies working for the government and that the reason they left was to start an entirely new life.” I dislike the fact that people are being judgmental about people that they don’t even know that much about. I could almost assure you that if you were to actually take the time to get to know what they are like as a person rather than put a label on all then you will probably find that they are just like me and you. I mean sure they may have different belies and customs than we do but hey who is to say that we could maybe one day learn something from our cultural differences.

“Come See the Paradise” is a great connection to today’s current events because after the September 11th, 2001 attacks many Americans thought that many Muslims living in America at that time and there afterwards were in connection with it. Again, people right away assume that just because the terrorist are of a certain ethnic background that all people of the same background are the same. I’ll say this again, if you actually put in the time and effort to get to know a Muslim-American living here in the United States I think that you would find that you have more in common than you may think.