Forsaken Fields
Forsaken Fields gave a lot history on Japanese-Americans from before,during and after World War II. The Japanese-Americans had the Alien Land Law which was put in force before the war. This law prohibited the Japanese who just arrived from Japan from becoming citizens which enabled them from owning land. The Japanese-Americans were smart and they found loopholes in this law. If you are born in America you are an American citizen, so Japanese would purchase there land in there children name who were American citizens. The Alien Land Law was just the start of the Japanese- Americans trouble in America. They came to America for the American dream, but all they got was hostility and anger. People want to come to America to work hard, and earn a life for them self and there family. I think most people who were born and raised in America take for granted the freedom we have. Americans are generally lazy people. Americans don’t see that same freedom, and the American dream that foreigners visualize. I think it is sad that these Japanese- Americans came so far in search of a great place, and were treated so poorly. Even before the War; Japanese-Americans had a hard time finding someone who would sell them land, or . . .
There are many gangs and many Asian-Americans in prisons today. Their crops had been dead and land thrashed and it took along time to get crops growing again. This had to be very hard for them to deal with on a everyday bases. They were treated so badly because the Government thought that the Japanese-Americans were helping the Japan. I do believe that this special attention that is put an Asian-Americans makes other groups hostile and resentful. The German-Americans and Italian-Americans weren’t that much of a thereat to America. Some Japanese-Americans became gardeners, so at least they did something they like to do. During and after the war Asian-Americans were discriminated against. Although, the Sato’s don’t own the land they started out with they are happy to be in America. They were ordered to leave there land and belongings, and head out to places like Arizona to internment camps. After the war a lot of families could not return to farming. When they were put in internment camps some Japanese-Americans were so devastated by the loss some committed suicide, yet some made the best of it. I am sure that there had been an Asian-American group in history that has started a riot or protest against something. It was stated that in 1942 Japanese-American owned 68 million acres of farm land. After the war there land was looted, and they were segregated at restaurants.
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