Ugly History: Japanese American incarceration camps - Densho

[@rutujavartak7977]

I adored the way Aki held on to the potted plant and re planted it when she returned ..

[@flamecharge8019]

Same

[@LarryOfilms]

Alexia Zamora I really want to know too

[@josemanuelmurguia8970]

Same

[@lakecrate5258]

It was in the cartoon

[@bones1026]

Alexia Zamora i think it was just the animation:)

[@Taylor-mb5nn]

The more I learn about history, I keep learning that we don't learn from history

[@manuelsaavedra8081]

Learning about and learning from are two different things after all

[@razi_man]

Being human does not give you humanity, I would be fine with this if this is only a small population and not almost the entire planet.

[@windrunner9158]

@@manuelsaavedra8081 Intellect vs Wisdom

[@icy.diamond]

...Ya

[@persimmon93]

Keeping migrant children in concentration camps where dozens have already died from poor hygienic conditions.

[@duckgoesquack4514]

One of my grandpa's friend was a kid in the Japanese internment camp. His father ran a food store in the camp. His family also lost there farm in California, and if they still had it, it would be worth millions

[@Andreamom001]

I once read about a man who took care of the farms of his interned Japanese neighbors throughout the war and returned them to them once they got out. A true hero. Yes, those farms are worth millions today.

[@mrsmiley707]

A white man took the farm and is probably making good money now

[@loki2240]

@@mrsmiley707 - Actually, a corporation is probably making most of the money off of that land now. There are a lot less family farms today. Those that still exist are often still beholden to a corporate master. "White" Americans have literally "given away the farm" to corporations. And then of course it has extended to other industries and even to politics.

[@campkira]

Japanese are collectivism and they are subject to their emperor so the true is they had to paid price for the war.... It just depend how the local decided.....

[@sophiatroetel8389]

campkira what?

[@danika4135]

In school I was often told I was not “Asian enough” because I could not speak Japanese while my other Asian friends could speak their respective languages. My mother nor my grandparents could speak Japanese either. I found out this was due to my grandparents having to go into “hiding” so they wouldn’t be taken to the camps. They were relatively young and had to try to shed any Japanese culture/upbringing to quickly assimilate. They were never uprooted but they had already lost the Japanese they had known as kids. People don’t understand these events, while several years ago, greatly impacts generations to come.

[@TN-ju4ro]

Can relate, they decultured us

[@prince_yt3406]

You’re white washed

[@dinsals]

Are you danika salceda?

[@taro_paro]

@@prince_yt3406 Did you not even read what they commented? Maybe think a little before you reply to a comment.

[@poppyperidot94]

@@Paonporteur there 100% something wrong with forgetting your cultures language ESP WHEN YOU ARE FORCED TO

[@ns_ml137]

“War does not determine who is right - only who is left.” -Winston Churchill

[@houssembenabdallah6599]

Thank you for sharing that quote.

[@TheJociman]

"It's not a Churchill quote but still a great one." -Austin Powers

[@gauripriyadasbaruah7720]

Same guy that sawed Israel and India in half and killed millions of people He committed more war crimes than Us and France Combined (Speculation)

[@gauripriyadasbaruah7720]

@ChoppedBlade He could have stopped that , Mountabatten wanted to not separate the country and most people starved and had no option but to kill each other And what about Israel , It was separated by his will

[@azzzanadra]

@@gauripriyadasbaruah7720 so what? how is him committing war crimes changes the fact that this is a true statement? if a criminal said gravity pulls things down will that stop gravity from working?

[@wheredad729]

My great grandma actually was sent to a Japanese internment camp she never liked to talk about it and sadly passed away in 2017

[@lilithslittlemoon]

I know the feeling I’m so sorry to hear about that. My mom made a documentary called ‘For The Sake of The Children’ that interviewed mine just before she passed away and many others who decided to -it was beautiful, heartbreaking and somewhat disorienting at first to see them talk about it but so so powerful. I hope maybe one day those who are still with us will be empowered to speak out even though I know it’s so much deeper and complicated than that. thinking of your family ❤️💙

[@marlonmoncrieffe0728]

@@lilithslittlemoon Sweet! I'd love to see it! Back when I was in film school, I saw a great documentary short about Japanese internment, titled 'History and Memory' by Rea Tajiri, that I still think about every now and then.

[@GenocidalSquid]

Rest In Peace. Sorry for your Grandma...

[@exhaustedciel]

Rip

[@a.b.8606]

My father was a POW in the first Gulf War. He also never likes to talk about it too.

[@pablog114]

"We learn history so we don't repeat our mistakes"

[@kamini858]

Absolutely true

[@johnpatrick1647]

And yet we've repeated the same mistakes over and over again for all of recorded history.

[@AzraeIReaper]

And yet we still incarcerate the Mexicans down at the border in similar fashions.

[@sahinyasar9119]

Too late

[@intuendaecivilization9365]

Say that to Japan, who still denies their war crimes in china. Check out unit 731.

[@Subparanon]

This is a great example of why you need to learn about your history or be doomed to repeat it. America was built and populated on the work of immigrants. They are us, and we are them.

[@GAMEOVER-yy6zj]

Technically everyone but Africans is immigrant.

[@-chairs-9541]

Immigrant?! Yh but only if their white right

[@Subparanon]

@Cromwellian Republican It usually takes a century or more of integration before an immigrant population is viewed as 'all American'. People used to view Irish, Italian, and German immigrants with the same attitude people today view immigrants from Asia and the middle east. The Irish in particular were treated harshly for almost a century. But nobody would bat an eyelash at an Irish American president today. It has to do with assimilation as much as time though. Groups like the Amish have been in the US for several centuries now, but they live apart culturally and have not assimilated and so their values don't reflect the average persons and they are still not what the average person would think of as 'American'. And yes, to the American Indians, we are all settlers, but even that will fade in time much like the Romans to the Goths.

[@dennisvance4004]

Subparanon we are not “a nation of immigrants“, we are a nation of Americans. My ancestors immigrated from Germany and Ireland. They left behind the flags of their former countries, became American citizens and a part of this country. My ancestors were coal miners and farmers. They came here legally. Anyone who knocks at the door and is allowed to enter is a visitor and a guess. “anyone who does not enter by the door […] but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.” John 10:1

[@dennisvance4004]

Subparanon dissimilation of them the Germans and Irish (my ancestors) and the others you mention did not come about because they protested and made demands. There was certainly not a class of privileged elites who took it upon themselves to be offended for these groups where they took no offense themselves. The immigrants from every country came to the US to be part of something greater than themselves, not to dictate to others.

[@jjc5475]

it isn't about being better or worst. it is about not making the same mistakes again, not with japanese, not with mexicans. with no one.

[@oppressormk2op547]

the world:i think i forgot about something. china:if you forgot it must not be important. world: yeah you're right. people in chinese re education camps:👁👃👁

[@arandomboi7611]

China still has camps for Muslims

[@momopeach8896]

Yes! Thank you! You said everything that I wanted to say!

[@withcheeseproductions]

Canada and Mexico built camps too for their Japanese population

[@kikoferras7369]

@@withcheeseproductions And that makes what the US did less inhumane?

[@annadang5811]

I have friends of Japanese-American heritage and a lot of them told me they never learned Japanese at home because their parents/grandparents didn't want them to. I never truly understood how that could come to be as I perceived Japanese to be generally proud of their culture and heritage.... But having watched this, it makes way too much sense that I just shed a few tears.......

[@adachilover69]

Im a Japanese American and i dont know how to speak much Japanese because I never learned how to . I can only understand some its pretty hard for me when i visit my grandma in japan.

[@felix_quintana]

That is still happening in many lands. Just as example, in Mexico there are more than 60 native languages, but if the parents move to big cities they don't teach the language to the children because of fear of discrimination.

[@gannielukks1811]

Brasil sil

[@IWantToStayAtYourHouse]

Thats so weird. I'm japanese australian and my parents wanted me to be good at japanese. Unfortunately i didnt take it seriously and flunked japanese school but now i regret it

[@Not_L0gical]

This happened to me as well I would have probably grown up speaking Japanese if my great grandparents hadn’t of not taught my grandma japanese

[@SILK97]

Damn I’ve never seen such a toxic Ted-Ed comment section. Comments calling out Ted for not covering other atrocities. Others saying “at least they were treated humanely” after having their livelihood stolen from them. Cmon ppl, these videos always seemed like such a positive place to learn, appreciate, and understand new things. Never wanted to see a comment section like this under a Ted-Ed vid. Regardless, thanks for the vid guys!

[@lonelyspirit1370]

I agree

[@thecockwambler2621]

People are allowed to have opinions you know. If someone disagrees with the video the comment section is where they share it. Dont get all high and mighty thinking they're wrong so its ok to claim thier opinions as "toxic" or "hate speech"

[@cadenglass1387]

@@randomdude9135 um...all the atrocities.......really ?

[@lonelyspirit1370]

People can be so picky

[@morifukui641]

Asian Americans will sadly ALWAYS be gaslight Ed for taking about our own issues. It's inescapable

[@johnversosas8298]

Please do about atrocities committed by Americans in Filipino-American war. We need more of this.

[@Wynter_PE]

@BC Bob we the viewers...?

[@TheLolilol321]

@BC Bob we who live on the planet know as 'Earth'

[@ow_ex7801]

@BC Bob who we?

[@--------352]

@BC Bob we who exist in the solar system

[@epg96]

But i heard Pinoys loved USA

[@nocultist7050]

Mr Miyagi's wife died there when he was fighting in a war as part of U.S. Army...

[@whathell6t]

tommy aronson I think he read it from the novel adaptation of the Karate Kid. Yeah! It’s a thing.

[@dennisvance4004]

NoCultist it’s disingenuous to make such statements without context. That someone died, regardless of where, while their husbands fought in the warr was not that unusual World War II. Women worked in munitions factories where there were explosions in which people lost their lives. For a time, more US civilians died as a result of industrial accidents than soldiers in World War II. Do you think it was any less painful for any soldier fighting the war who found out his wife back home had died?

[@drvivekvirsingh2586]

Yeah right i saw it too in the karate kid movie

[@dennisvance4004]

Rose Maria Joseph while men and women of good faith shake hands and leave the past behind there are those who, to signal their own virtue, want to revive the pain and cause strife. The truth then has to be told to put half truths to flight.

[@levinl6695]

Blaming Japanese people for Pearl Harbor is like blaming dogs because a wolf stole your sheep or something like that.

[@funveeable]

And blaming the entire police force for something Derik Chauvin did, resulting in defending the police and massive crime is also like blaming Japanese civilians for Pearl Harbor.

[@ecstasycheese7390]

This is why school should stop collective punishment :>

[@kaleidoscope3234]

@@funveeable The Japanese American didn't go through a life time of indoctrination and propaganda to become ruthless war criminals. All US police graduate from the same police training system as Derik Chauvin.

[@BonnieBunny118]

@@kaleidoscope3234 but that doesn’t make them guilty like Derek

[@LarryWater]

Japanese civilians cheered and knew about the genocide committed by the Imperial military. Soldiers and sailors regular wrote to their wives and mothers.

[@KitCat898]

This isn’t taught enough. Fantastically done- we must learn from the past to never repeat.

[@chinesecabbagefarmer]

This message is more important today than it ever has been.

[@mr.h5436]

You have a point there. In the age of overpopulation and global warming, tens of millions will be on the road traveling to countries already stressed. What stories will be told next century?

[@chinesecabbagefarmer]

@@mr.h5436 That's the kind of topic I'd like to have a sit-down conversation on.

[@mr.h5436]

@@chinesecabbagefarmer I have coffee!

[@chinesecabbagefarmer]

@@mr.h5436 Alright, I'll see you on Thursday.

[@thewrustywrench21]

Yea, it’s way more important now then it was back when people were actually being discriminated against

[@Noone-of-your-Business]

Order 9066? So this is where George Lucas got his inspiration for the number from. Makes sense: "The removal of any suspected enemies".

[@fxlxp]

Was looking for this comment😂

[@cuttleb0nes]

I noticed that too!!

[@reinardish]

@@fxlxp same

[@LarryOfilms]

He really is into Japanese culture

[@mistylover2082]

@Varun Ramamurthi22 why does this remind me of star wars?

[@TheZeyon]

Home of the free, am I right?

[@mysteriousmuffin6017]

T Clark That it actually isn’t. The USA was no better than the Soviet Union.

[@jonirojonironin5353]

@ The point is USA is NOT the home of the free. Get it?

[@smoggrog5155]

for me but not for you. and its gonna stay that way forever.

[@Pop_A_Chaderall]

Is this the great america people are referring to?

[@johanqian1858]

@@smoggrog5155 yes，the American launched many wars all over the world，by name of freedom. the freedom is for the American not for anyone else

[@Not_L0gical]

These make me so sad to watch, but also give me a sense of pride to know that my grandma survived this atrocity.

[@arukakirigiri5055]

As a Filipino-American, someone once asked me a fascinating question on whether I would fight my birth country if ever the US and Philippines goes into war and I get drafted to serve. I said "Yes, I would fight in behalf of US in case I ever get drafted but that will never happen because I would've been sent to internment camps instead of being drafted"

[@ennui9745]

The US and the Philippines are allies now, thankfully.

[@gingertwerk472]

I don’t think the government could get away with that at this point in time, but you would probably be treated as badly by people as if you were in one.

[@callmeyourmajesty09]

You should fight for your birth country

[@arukakirigiri5055]

@@callmeyourmajesty09 You are not gonna fight for the Philippines. You're fighting for the politicians. The tech of Philippines is dated because the military did not get any funding due to corruption. You are participating a war with outdated weapons making you more likely to die. And to make things worse, the people would be watching you die as they sit on the beach in USA using the military funding they stole.

[@callmeyourmajesty09]

@@arukakirigiri5055 so would you fight for politicians if you're going to fight for US, which is 10000 times worse than Filipino government. I think I don't need to explain why

[@taylorleeyoutube]

I remember learning about this in my sixth grade class. Still heart breaking and I am glad there is a series to uncover these important parts of history now. Thanks TED!

[@ahnaafnaaeer1882]

Thank you ted ed for sharing these heart moving stories for helping us realize the plight of different people in our history. This helps us to unite and stand for peace. Couldn't have done it without you.

[@pacskulls7757]

I really enjoy seeing this. People need to learn EVERYONE'S suffering to be able to have compassion for them and make the world a better place.

[@Theusualregularasiangirl]

My grandmother was only 2 when she went. My great grandmother was about in her mid 30s, my father told me that it’s apparently a very private thing . My grandma never talked about it. My uncle who is a Japanese history person was on a PBS documentary called Silent Sacrifice where he told the stories about the Japanese American citizens be wrongfully incarcerated with such horrible conditions.

[@jman140692]

Atleast they weren't tortured and brutally murdered slaves for 400 years and made it out with a nice reparation check

[@ashelydoodles9334]

@@jman140692 This isn't the oppression Olympics.

[@Theusualregularasiangirl]

@@Hndjdj400 mhm

[@EnzoGabriel-p7n]

@@ashelydoodles9334 this!

[@pathmor]

My great grandmother was in one of the Japanese internment camps. I seriously don’t understand how she maintains more faith in humanity than I do after her own country demonized and harshly mistreated her and so many others.

[@pathmor]

@La Dolce Vita There are many better things you could've done with your time than comment this. Have a good day.

[@Rioux1355]

I just read “Daughter of Molokai”. Heavy focus on this very dark part of American history.

[@sabrhardscope2120]

Japanese did it too us too. Their not innocent either. Look up the movie unbroken

[@bloodur]

@@sabrhardscope2120 POWs are not the same as citizens, hardscoper. I watched that movie too and enjoyed it, but completely false equivalency you're trying to make.

[@jman140692]

@@bloodur The Japanese have a history of torturting civilians look up the nanjing massacre in China. Even inside of Japan look at what they did to the Ainu also. Or how about what the did to the Korean comfort women.

[@bloodur]

@@jman140692 keep talking about japanese, and this event is about japanese Americans. Also thank you for informing me of those events. I am Chinese American; I think I know about Nanjing.

[@kikacuneo4092]

I love the plant symbolism where she held on to it through the whole story!

[@herr_rudolf]

Name them without euphemisms: concentration camps.

[@bjuny6481]

Do you know what a concentration camp is?

[@herr_rudolf]

@@bjuny6481 Yes, facilities where innocent people, mainly large groups, are imprisoned without a trial because of their ethnicity, ideology or unjustified prosecution.

[@lilithslittlemoon]

THANK YOU 💯

[@herr_rudolf]

@@rjlooker Ja, sicher, ich bin ein Schwul und du bist ja ein Erwachsene. People died in this camps for no justified reason. I know there were German camps, and also there were Gulags, Chinese concentration camps, Japanese concentration camps but also US concentration camps. Treating them as something special is just hypocrisy at its best. Victims of these concentration camps must be remembered without euphemisms.

[@Th3Sh1n1gam1]

The definition of concentration camps is much more baggaged than internment camps. Concentration camps would imply a form of genocide alongside mass incarceration.

[@graceyang9022]

I have to say, the plant being carried throughout the video is honestly quite beautiful imagery/symbolism.

[@theunclave6558]

This just screams "the country where everyone can be free to pursue happiness"

[@montiliusbeatty9831]

I was a caretaker at a jodo shinzu buddhist church. Many of the older japanese told me about their experiences in these camps. They lost all of their property: houses, ranches etc.

[@phoenixshadow6633]

I would also assume that Yellow Peril sentiments that were prominent in the 19th and 20th centuries would have a hand in causing the distrust in Japanese Americans. America did peddle for years that the East Asian cultures were unassimilable in the West. It's easier to harm people when you convince they were "the Other" rather than your own.

[@andywest8363]

Tell that to the people of Nanking.

[@rafangille]

@@andywest8363 these people had nothing to do with the war crimes of the japanese empire ?

[@theassaulters2869]

Congratulations Ted ed having 10 million subscribers.

[@WillNyeTheScienceGuy11]

YAYAYAYAYAY 10 million subscribers for Ted ed

[@scallywag1716]

My wife and I visited “camp” Manzanar in California. It is nestled next to Sierra Nevada’s. It was quite eerie as almost all structures were gone save one building, a basketball hoop, and a few monuments. I can’t imagine going through that ordeal. What a travesty to bestow on fellow Americans regardless of national origin.

[@astronautbehera7621]

Wow, I had no idea about this. Thank you TED-ED for such a beautiful, detailed and logical explanation.

[@ethannorman7537]

So scary that I never knew this atrocity!

[@forshigity5000]

Niihau incident

[@amg1334]

MMM *atrocity

[@spades1018]

anaya How was that an atrocity

[@spades1018]

anaya Literally as simple as a Japanese pilot crash landing, getting captured by some locals, escaping capture with the help of some locals of Japanese descent, and then getting killed.

[@spades1018]

anaya What’s more, the people helping the pilot didn’t even get charged with treason or anything.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

What is all this whataboutism in the comments not every video or channel has to talk about every event ever, just to cover the one that makes you feel uncomfortable. This is an American channel so amazingly they focus on things that happened in America.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

@@randomdude9135 come on you don't even belive this yourself. Propoganda just because they talked about an event that happened. By your own standard there is not a school, even university on earth that can call themselves education, as they don't teach every single event ever, a Geography course does not talk about every city in the world or every mountain so therefore it isn't education, please... Also how is this one sided reporting, you don't report history, this is historical fact, if it upsets you and you don't like it, that does not make it propoganda.

[@marcosluna7792]

I thought TED was international.

[@godzillavkk]

Are you educated? I think not.

[@Madhattersinjeans]

They did neglect to mention all the other things occuring at this time.The paranoia and simple ignorance of what the populations where doing to their own civilians. It is a biased account, however with ww2 it would be difficult to make a comprehensive video about this event and give a good background with something that upended lives all across the globe.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

@@Madhattersinjeans just to add the channel is aimed at teaching children, giving every aspect as you said would be hard especially in a short content format.

[@chikarashii]

It’s so scary because I would have gone to a camp 😔

[@silentsmurf]

Alicia Heyer me too 😞

[@ssrmythic9087]

Same

[@theemirofjaffa2266]

But theres nothing Japanese in your name

[@babyuchiha4526]

@@theemirofjaffa2266 what does that even mean

[@mango9602]

Possibly me cause I’m Chinese and people REALLY hated Chinese and they wouldn’t care to pop me in.

[@codyshi4743]

The first time, when I heard about the Japanese internment camp was from a book, “Baseball Saved Us”. After finished reading it as an kid, I’ve always wanted to know more about what the camp was like, what those Japanese Americans had to go through, and why the government would want to go through such great length to do this thing towards Americans of Japanese decent. This video really explains more and explains very well, in why they would such a thing. And the Video about the Akunes Brother also explains it very well. After knowing more about this thing, I’ve always worry, what if the US went to war with another none white nation? Would they want to do the same horrible thing towards their own citizens, who are of the same ethnicity as their enemy country?

[@carvel8874]

I find it so baffling that I never learned this in school. Thank you for this educational video

[@dhockedy1273]

why would you the US never do anything wrong if you think otherwise it just means you havent swallowed enough propaganda

[@ernestoglez6725]

Make a video about La masacre de Tlatelolco (Tlatelolco's massacre) México October 2 1968, a week before the Olympic's inauguration

[@tecpaocelotl]

Never forget!

[@marcosluna7792]

Dude this was a crazy Massacre.

[@ernestoglez6725]

@@tecpaocelotl No se olvida!

[@creedmaxmaster]

@@tecpaocelotl never forget this. More than 2 million japanese people

[@Marcus-wv6wm]

Happened in Canada too :(

[@LuinTathren]

I didn't know that. Thanks for saying this. I'll have to do some research about it.

[@Rwircea]

@fgrdg duifghj Detention of Canadians of japanese origin. I read a book about it years ago, "A Child In Prison Camp", by Shizuye Takashima. It is a short and heartbreaking book, but a must-read to learn about this darker and rarely spoken-of part of canadian history.

[@thiagobezerra5772]

In Brazil it happened too!

[@italiansoldierfromww2460]

It's hard to imagine it happened in California but gee I never assumed Canada would do it

[@tadokoropilled]

i studied it in class, it's sad, really.

[@pranjalshilkar8329]

You put so much effort in this. I wish more people would see it.

[@mitsoko3044]

It’s scary that it took me 14 years to learn about this in 8th grade.

[@biya.self2355]

same😓

[@s.a928]

because ur gooo gooo gaga brain wouldn't understand it if you were younger

[@merge9585]

I first read about it in first grade, in our small collection of books. It confused me so I assumed it had to do with things I would learn later. Never learned about it in history class.

[@amysteriousstranger1221]

Ted Ed and Extra History has taught me more about history than most of my history classes

[@scholarssolutions6735]

At least you learned about it. My school mentioned it once, briefly, in a textbook and then spent the rest of our WW2 unit on how "integral" the USA was to WW2. Funnily enough, if you look at surveys from that time period, most people overwhelmingly attributed the defeat of the Axis powers to the USSR and not the USA.

[@lilithslittlemoon]

THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS oh my god. My mom was born in the Poston Camps and just finished a documentary about the impact of it on generations after. This is so important.

[@morganmarsh1276]

I liked how the pictures moved. It was a satisfying art style but also helped you visualize that these were living, breathing people and actual events. I just thought that was cool.

[@Kokosnuss]

This makes me incredibly sad.

[@neotheone5559]

Americans: "OMG Germany had concentration camps!" Also Americans: (puts American Japanese in incarceration camps)

[@kthevsamig4958]

So did every other country what’s your point?

[@punt460]

Fun fact the British made concentration camps Japanese ww2 war crime go unknown German and Italian camps during ww2 and ww1 go, unnoticed victims, the Japanese made themselves victims the problem here is blaming Japan or the America is leaving voices unheard people suffer for humans dignity.

[@communityadmin6505]

Did they fight because of the camps? Your comment does not make sense. And America needed to do it so that they can be sage

[@neotheone5559]

I like how no one is getting the joke. Everyone blames Germany for camps but no one knows about the others until recently. Thats the joke guys :/ Edit: except Kenneth. Nice fact bro

[@neotheone5559]

@@communityadmin6505 did they though?

[@cassieevictoria]

A similar thing happened in Canada too. A few of my Japanese friends had grandparents who were moved to Japanese internment camps during WWII. However, we learned about this in sixth grade, and I feel like in the United States, these types of events are not commonly learned about in school :(

[@jamesfletcher5906]

@@Paonporteur I really don't think its a stain. Look at what was happening in Japan, Germany and Russia at the time. In comparison to the time period, this really wasn't that bad.

[@zaid1169]

@@jamesfletcher5906 dont try to justify it, it wont clear up untied states reputation just because other country at the times did it worse you aint innocent if you still do almost the same thing as the other does just because its a little bit "different".

[@jamesfletcher5906]

@@zaid1169 The guy called it a stain, that means worse than the rest. America at the time were not worse than the rest. Maybe it could have been handled differently, but people act like it was "America's concentration camp" it really was not

[@Stickman_Productions]

We do learn about it. There was a book about it that the teacher read to class.

[@Stickman_Productions]

It was terrifying because they didn't.allow them anywhere and they out up signs on the libraries to go to there

[@samrevlej9331]

To answer people who claim this is the same thing as what Germany did during the war and to those who said it wasn't as bad: No, this isn't near the level of horror that the Nazis inflicted on those they persecuted. But if Nazism is the bar you set for your country, then I'm not quite sure it's much of a selling point.

[@El-Silver]

The camps were really better than most any country Japan, Italy , the Croatians , the soviets etc etc which had death rates from the 20% to 100% in some conditions the American ones are inhumane but we're not bad compared to almost everyone else

[@IWantToStayAtYourHouse]

Just because other camps had worse conditions doesnt justify the internment. Its like telling a skin cancer survivor "people with pancreatic cancer have much worse survival rates you had it good!". It just invalidates the cancer patients problems

[@samrevlej9331]

@@IWantToStayAtYourHouse Yeah, we agree.

[@somewiseguy7245]

Congrats on 10 million subscribers.It is way overdue.Keep up the amaz8ng work guys😊

[@sophiatroetel8389]

this video does a good job explaining the history and the basis of the camps, but I don’t think people realize how bad the conditions were. In the camps further north, there was no heat in the barracks so it was freezing cold at night; pregnant women got very little medical attention; everyone showered publicly facing each other and guards. Feel free to read more about this subject. (I recommend “Farewell to Manzanar”)

[@branthony8055]

I went to Aki Kurose middle school in Seattle when I was 11. The school refused to teach us anything "unpatriotic" about the united states', which included learning the about the Japanese internment camp. Kind of ironic.

[@robertwatts7894]

I love how in high school we never learn about this in history.

[@pyroromancer]

you weren't paying attention.

[@damianmorningstar3150]

Because we Asians only make up 5% of the entire US if the population was bigger you would have

[@danielescobedo9315]

PyroRomancer right 😂😂

[@BronzeSista]

now why would they teach you the dark history of America?

[@rohinim1334]

im learning this in high school rn we have to watch this and take notes

[@marthedevries4655]

This is a whole new view on the war i never knew about

[@PinkyJapan]

I teach English in Japan and will be showing this video to my students. Even my 32 year old Japanese husband didn’t know that Japanese Americans were held in concentration camps until I told him. He was shocked.

[@funveeable]

I take him you also showed the atrocities of the Imperial Japanese military towards surrendered Americans and Chinese civilians too? You gotta show both sides during any history session.

[@communityadmin6505]

You should teach them how the Japanese treated American pows as well then.

[@PinkyJapan]

@@communityadmin6505There is an enormous difference between how enemy soldiers and innocent civilians should be treated during war.

[@keithkoganeislife3144]

@@PinkyJapan Unit 731, where the Japanese army conducted horrendous experiments on civilians. Such as infecting them with frost-bite, cholera, and various STDs. Plus conducting vivisections on them while they were still conscious and making prisoners walk out into the freezing cold dosed in freezing water to measure how long it took them to freeze to death.

[@creedmaxmaster]

@@communityadmin6505 fake story

[@therebex23]

Let's not forget that this happened in Canada too; to this day it is not often talked about or taught in school (it is brushed over a few times but not to the extent that we actually pushed Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry out of their homes, cities...) but, education is key to righting past wrongs and creating a better present and future. In Canada, we embrace the "mosaic" of cultures that came together to create our country...but we need to acknowledge the wrongs of the past to make everyone who lives here feel like they are home.

[@jonathanlafleche5984]

Just throwing this out there, but Canada also partook in this atrocious act of racism. David Suzuki, a well known Canadian environmentalist, spent some years when he was still young in an internment camp in the BC interior. At the time of his internment, David was a third generation Japanese-Canadian and his family has lived here for four decades.

[@christianvikelgaardliebst9768]

As a Dane, seeing how the public and officials treat people of middle eastern backgrounds, after the War on Terrorism started, really shows how we haven’t learned from history. No matter how many times it may repeat itself

[@guzelataroach4450]

Hvorfor? Hundretusenvis av ulovlige innvandrere , de fleste men mellom 20 - 30 år, som kommer for å utnytte velferdssystemet, drepe, voldta???

[@jamaelwilliams8677]

Just another example of how racism and paranoia destroy entire factions Families and lives

[@Hevendemo]

And people now are complaining that staying at home is infringing on their freedom but dont mention anything about natives, asians, Hispanics, Pacific islanders, or, African americans.

[@Hevendemo]

My point still stands

[@ItsBeenTooLong]

You got to listen to Kenji by Fort Minor! That’s how I learned about the internment camps, because for some reason public school history book’s didn’t have it. 🤔🤔🤔

[@aleasia2269]

Monté Zæ cause America likes hiding it’s dark past. I knew the country was janky but when is started studying history I realize this place is really tore up from the floor up and the sad part is people don’t want to acknowledge it or they assume you hate it cause you point out the bad things but ,how are you supposed to have a good future if you don’t acknowledge and learn from the the past

[@bigbruhenergygobrr]

Yesss i was thinking abt that song too!

[@grovetender4713]

As an American, I appreciate that our dark past is being taught. If we don’t learn about the past, then we are doomed to repeat it.

[@user02406]

it absolutely breaks my heart to think of the older people who didn't have a home to go back to and because homeless with 25$ as the only money they had. and not to forget about the racial discrimination minorities had to face, especially the japanese after the war.

[@aquapenguin9697]

Sadly...this also happened in Canada...

[@bn9611]

kinda wished that there was an actual picture of her at the end of the video. it would definitely help to encourage some kind of connection to a human face rather than cartoon

[@zoro.7]

You can search her name

[@bn9611]

@@zoro.7 ....that's not the point

[@tzwacdastag8223]

Love the selfless mission of TED Organisation

[@WWTormentor]

We can’t blame the current generation for the mistakes and atrocities of the past generations. But we must learn from those experiences and educate so we don’t repeat the same actions.

[@madchencraig5395]

That was only 5 minutes but it felt like 30. I love the way this channel tells stories

[@justyouraveragegamer8733]

I can’t believe her teacher would say something like that to her

[@udhayakumarMN]

Are u simpleton

[@mollietenpenny4093]

I remember a book on this by Japanese American author Allan Say.

[@salamiskeleton8704]

OK and.

[@creedmaxmaster]

@@salamiskeleton8704 and

[@MxNEWCASTLE]

I live in Puyallup Washington. I'm so happy to say that Camp Harmony is now the fair grounds it always should have been. There's a memorial plaque there today as well. But even more impactful than the historical site to me is the story, the people that lay behind it. My mother told me as a child what happened there and it really had an effect on me. The fact that my town was home to such hate still stings, and it always will. But it motivated me to make a difference, to not tolerate racism, discrimination, or oppression. It helped me to understand the struggles of my Japanese American family members. Japanese people are always welcome here, as equals and friends. Racism, however, has no place.

[@gl4zepop_]

As a Filipino who needs to learn about Japanese - Philippine/American war, Japanese were very brutal people to our country. It was really devastating

[@life-sf1oz]

That was the empire of Japan their military did all that not the people

[@creedmaxmaster]

Americans where more brutal

[@thisoldbelair]

I grew up in Washington and lived in southern Idaho for a few years. It’s weird to hear familiar town names like Puyallup associated with such atrocities. With that in mind, there’s no reason for anyone currently living to feel accountable for this history, because we aren’t. We can, however, learn from it and prevent it from ever happening again. In that way, we can be responsible.

[@anatoyoda1243]

Brazil also had incarceration camps for Japanese Brazilian individuals and families at that time. My great grandfather was sent to one of those camps in the Amazon region and his family never recovered from that, which led to my great grandmother taking her own life, maybe out of deep sadness and shame.

[@gametri-eq6lj]

nothing compared to Japanese colonialism in Indonesia,China,Philippines,Korea,Malaysia,Burma,India unit 731 being an example

[@fxlxp]

Wow I had no idea this happened. Thank you TedEd

[@jamiel9815]

So sad. Surprised i learned about this today instead of my history class many years ago.

[@barrymccaulkiner7092]

George Takei knows all about this.

[@jackmion]

We have to learn from history and work towards changes. We are lucky that we can discuss it here and learn this.

[@marianacastellanosb]

I was born and raised in Mexico, but ever since I learned about this subject, I have not been able to stop looking into it. For about three years now, I've been writing a historical novel dealing with the aftermath of U.S. internment camps called "The Complexity of Flowers". Videos like these have been a great help to me in terms of research. I've also done a few school projects on the subject and have gone into the National Archives website for information. Still, since the story is very character-driven, it's a bit tough when it comes to specifics. If there are any Japanese-Americans who wish to share their testimonies or be sensitivity readers, I'd be extremely grateful

[@tanvi6952]

Oh god we learned about these in 4th grade, it was depressing but informational and I’m kind of glad we learned it that early on

[@marlonmoncrieffe0728]

'Snow Falling on Cedars' (1999) is one my all-time favorite movies. There is a beautiful montage in the film's middle where Japanese families are sent to Manzanar internment camp. P.S. 'Come See the Paradise' (1991) is an underrated movie about this same dark subject. P.P.S. Credit to Colorado governor, Ralph Lawrence Carr, the only elected official to denounce Japanese internment. He unfortunately lost his job for his integrity.

[@nickc3657]

It’s absurd to think this isn’t happening, again, right now

[@guynumber3100]

It almost did after 9/11. Alot of people where calling for peoples of the middle East to be put in camps. Thank God Bush said no.

[@lexieoddo]

I had to take notes for school on this video. We only had to take 5, but I took 20 because this is so interesting.

[@adityapawar1210]

The more I read about history, the more I learn that there are no right sides or wrong sides, simply winning and losing sides.

[@finnlewis2528]

Ted-Ed has a video on the Japanese Interment Camps, but no video on Unit 731 really makes you think

[@mrpug1037]

Yeah... true

[@finnlewis2528]

@@mrpug1037 so what brings you here from the Based and Redpilled Department

[@btomimatsucunard]

Wow... a person trying to justify the confinement of American citizens because of what a foreign nation did. Wow.. so original...

[@finnlewis2528]

@@btomimatsucunard look up the Niihau Incident and then get back to me weeb also, where would you prefer to be in an interment camp or Unit 731

[@btomimatsucunard]

@@finnlewis2528 The camps were on the US mainland, not Hawaii tho they had their own system during the war. Regardless there is no justifying this. This is locking up American citizens without due process just because of ethnic fears and prejudices that came to a head in wartime. Period, regardless of what Japan did, this act is about what the US did to their own citizens based on their ethnic heritage. The fact that you are trying to justify it speaks volumes towards your own morality.

[@heorgegarrison5554]

I never knew this happened, and people should know, people NEED to know about these things

[@jamesconwell7065]

I’m Japanese born in Japan. I have relatives who were put in concentration camps in California. Some of the elderly man, first generation to become Americans but would not change alliances to the emperor and Japan because they consider the emperor a god. So they were put special camp called “NO NO camps because they were considered dangerous. Our family was spread around the world. Hawaii, Tule Lake. After some never regained their homes and businesses. My uncle fought in Russia and our family considered dead. 4 years in prisoner camp. He was honored in family grave site. Then suddenly he showed after being released My grandmother and mother are survivor’s of the atomic bomb. My grandmother dress traditionally wearing kimono, her skin melted off from the flash. My mother 14 years old buried under a two story house. She was in a coma for a few weeks. When awoke the first person saw was my grandmother. My mom thought my grandmother was a monster. If you grew knowing anything the Japanese American troops were highest amount medal fighting against Germany. I’m not proud the Japanese imperial army war crimes. War is so life changing.

[@ja8243]

Fear always makes humans blame innocent people.

[@habib.h5921]

The animation style is out of this world 😢😍

[@praveenas4675]

CONGRATS ON 10 MILLION🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@ryantres85]

They were American citizens, but they suffered this just because they looked Japanese.

[@nixonooi8276]

When she went college I was Damn proud

[@angusyang5917]

What really must've sucked to the Japanese was that they were the only ethnic group in the United States to undergo this scale of persecution. The Germans and Italians endured some discrimination, but overall, they were not interned in mass numbers. Otherwise, they would've had to intern people like Eisenhower, Nimitz, Einstein, Fermi, and Capra in these camps, because they were of German or Italian ancestry. Koreans and Chinese wore signs to differentiate themselves from the Japanese, the latter of which was an American ally from the very beginning, and the former of which was fiercely Anti-Japanese, so during this time period, government officials distinguished Japanese immigrants from Koreans and Chinese. Thais were also not interned, despite their country being allied to the Japanese, because the Thai ambassador to the U.S. refused to declare war, and so that why Thais were also not interned.

[@spades1018]

Probably has something to do with the fact that Japan is literally right across the ocean from the west coast

[@eyoifee468]

@@spades1018 ? Japan is farther away from the US than Europe is. You are underestimating how wide the Pacific ocean is.

[@spades1018]

@@eyoifee468 we had no major allies in the Pacific to stop the Japanese. The British had the German navy contained to Europe. And anyway, they didn't seem to have much trouble attacking Hawaii, which was much farther from Japan than Europe is from America.

[@beasty4545]

Was blown away when you mentioned Friends University. Pretty dang cool. - a Wichita native

[@narararamammily5386]

That’s why we need to learn from history instead of repeating. Don’t fight fire with fire. It only make things go into a loop with no forward.

[@hamidkarim4811]

You can't learn from history and it's illogical to do so. You don't have to look at history to know that incarceration or killing innocent people is wrong. Either you're a moral person or you're not, this has nothing to do with history. "Learn from history" is just a silly phrase many people use.

[@justjhaycee]

TED-ED can you also make a video like this about "Tha Fall of Bataan and Death March". Please thank you. As a Filipino, I also wanted everyone to be informed about WWII in the Philippines.

[@neutralpie420]

History teacher: History is beautiful and magnificent TED ED: observe

[@kevinclass2010]

There's beauty in people withstanding adversity.

[@harmonetheanimationaddict4419]

True story: George Takei and his family were sent to a camp when he was little.

[@zohy98]

Just wanted to come here and say I absolutely love the animation style! So complementary to to topic of the video, amazing work.

[@murderbot_2pt0]

I’ve been to minidoka, and I can tell you there is no way they were even remotely comfortable in the winter, as southern Idaho is constantly windy and dry