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... On December 7th, 1941, Japanese Americans took a terrible blow from the country of their ancestry. Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor and started a huge battle for all Japanese Americans, a battle of prejudice and questions of loyalty. All Japanese Americans were then classified as 4-C or enemy aliens. ... Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 allowing the military to intern all Americans of Japanese ancestry. Although it was told that the Japanese Americans were being moved for their benefit, the internment camps were surrounded by barbed wire and guards with guns pointed inward towards the Japanese, instead of outward. All Japanese Americans were discharged from the military and became ineligible for the draft. ... Since the success of the 100th Battalion, on February 1st, 1943, the United States Army began the activations of the 442nd, a unit of Japanese ancestry. Although the 442nd was on of the most decorated RCTs, little is known about them, their story, their differences between Hawaii and Mainlander Japanese. ... Were there and differences in how they viewed their service and the issue of proving their American loyalty? ... And how would this affect the general American public’s ideas of Japanese Americans and Asian Americans?
Some people may think that it does not matter where you come from and that a Japanese from Japan, Hawaii, California, and Oregon are all the same, but there are huge differences. While assembling the 442nd, Japanese from the mainland and Hawaii were used; there were many differences between the two groups. Each group had labeled the other group with a nickname, the mainland Japanese were referred to as “katonks” which meant “stone head” and the Japanese from Hawaii were labeled as “Buddhaheads,” that in Pidgin English and Japanese meant, “pig headed”. ... The “katonks” could not believe who the Hawaii Japanese were, a “katonk” quoted “who are these people speaking the you go stay go kine pidgin English?” The mainland Japanese viewed the Hawaii Japanese as outgoing and more aggressive.
Approximate Word count = 1636
Approximate Pages = 6.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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