より多くの苦難に直面して
After being released from the internment camps, Japanese Americans faced many challenges adjusting back into their communities. Many Americans continued to hold negative, racist, or prejudicial feelings towards the former internees as they re-entered society. Although the first years after World War II remained difficult for Japanese Americans, they would slowly gain acceptance in their neighborhoods and cities.
"Japanese Americans have continued to find ways to maintain a meaningful community despite the disruptions. Thus, the friendships and family relationships, as well as the social activities (athletes leagues, churches, Japanese cultural schools) of the Japanese American community provided meaning to being Japanese American..."
"Despite the positive bearing within the community to rebuild and move forward, there are probably many stories of sadness and tragedy, where lives were torn apart and never returned to normal. Within the individuals and communities experience a dramatic change, catastrophe, or other devastating event, they often become discouraged and dysfunctional because of the lack of support that is usually present."
-Text Quote From: Japanese American Internment During WWII - By: Wendy Ng
-Text Quote From: Japanese American Internment During WWII - By: Wendy Ng
Transcript of a true excerpt from the book : I am An American
By: Jerry Stanley
By: Jerry Stanley
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"A job and a place to live was quite a challenge. I’m told there were even “No Japs” signs in employment agencies"
-Mako Nakagawa
"The incarceration was a serious attack on their American identity development and had significant impact on Nisei self-image." -Text Quote From : Densho (Postwar Impacts) |
"Some seven years after the war, Susumu Satow took his family to a restaurant in his hometown of Sacramento. They ordered their meal. It never arrived. “There’s no point in making any commotion and so we just walked out,” he said. "
-Susumu Satow
Psychological Effects 心理的影響
Many Japanese Americans suffered from psychological effects after being released. These effects included shock, fear, and anxiety.
"...the larger psychological burden of being stripped of their civil rights and the unjust ethnic denigration of being suspected of disloyalty based only on their Japanese heritage."
-Text Quote From: Densho ( Postwar Impacts)
-Text Quote From: Densho ( Postwar Impacts)
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"The psychological trauma experienced by their parents was actually shown to transfer to the children, who "inherited" the effects."
-Text Quote From: Densho ( Postwar Impacts)
-Text Quote From: Densho ( Postwar Impacts)