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 Lawwhich was put in force before the war. This law prohibited the Japanese who justarrived from Japan from becoming citizens which enabled them from owning land. The Japanese-Americans were smart and they found loopholes in this law. If youare born in America you are an American citizen, so Japanese would purchasethere land in there children name who were American citizens. The Alien LandLaw was just the start of the Japanese- Americans trouble in America. They cameto 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 andthere family. I think most people who were born and raised in America take forgranted the freedom we have. Americans are generally lazy people. Americansdon't see that same freedom, and the American dream that foreigners visualize. Ithink it is sad that these Japanese- Americans came so far in search of a greatplace, and were treated so poorly. Even before the War; Japanese-Americans hada hard time finding someone who would sell them land, or
There are many gangs and many Asian-Americansin prisons today. Their crops had been dead and land thrashed and it tookalong time to get crops growing again. This had to be very hard for them to deal withon a everyday bases. They were treated so badly because theGovernment thought that the Japanese-Americans were helping the Japan. I dobelieve that this special attention that is put an Asian-Americans makes othergroups hostile and resentful. The German-Americans and Italian-Americans weren't thatmuch of a thereat to America. Some Japanese-Americans became gardeners, so at least they did something they like to do. During and after thewar 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 toleave there land and belongings, and head out to places like Arizona to internmentcamps. After the war a lot of families could not return to farming. When they were put in internment campssome Japanese-Americans were so devastated by the loss some committedsuicide, yet some made the best of it. I am sure that there hadbeen an Asian-American group in history that has started a riot or protest againstsomething. It wasstated that in 1942 Japanese-American owned 68 million acres of farm land. After the war there land was looted, and theywere segregated at restaurants.
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