Racism and America’s Concentration Camps | Mas Hashimoto | TEDxMeritAcademy 

@Jaime Alonzo the one he showed you in the beginning of the video, Baka.

you all prolly dont give a damn but does anybody know a method to log back into an instagram account? I somehow forgot the account password. I would love any help you can give me!

PlaguE ImaginatioN if the schools teach and not indoctrinate there’ll be less hate,ignorance and inhumanity

there's no such a thing as "human race"...have you ever attended any classes in biology? there's human species, but no one has ever heard of "human race", the fake expression coined to brainwash those that don't have more than three brain cells.

EXACTLY....AND SHARE THAT PERFECTION.☝💜

@@rococokitchen3988 Wrong , we are all members of the human RACE...

​@@michaelweber5702 try to sell that cheap rubbish to someone else...if you are brainwashed or paid by some NGO to spread that s***t than that's your problem...

How do Japanese treat Africans in their own country?

@@09939027253 They don't want to talk about Japanese racism. That will spoil the whole "blame it all on the white man" party.

is there some way he could go back to japan and help with fukishima?

@@timhallas4275 We talk about our racism, and we realise our racism, our government just does not want to admit it.

@@yuukikang3752 Have you ever met a person who DIDN'T think his race was superior to the others?

I beg to disagree for there are two sides to this story.

Mas Hashimoto was a history teacher at Watsonville HS for many years. He was my history teacher my junior year.

@@thedefinitionoflife9192 Ok and why is that a reason to not let him be a history teacher? Just because he says something you disagree with him, he shouldn't be allowed to express his story?

@@diabeticalien3584 Because your only showing one side of the story. The students should be shown both points of view and then make up their minds on their own. Everyone should be able to think for themselves. You should always be able to think for yourself.

@@thedefinitionoflife9192 You are correct, everyone should always be able to think for themselves. In this case though, this part of American history is rarely taught in our secondary education system here in the US and in most colleges students are only required to take a survey course for US History if they are not minoring or majoring in history. So, by all means, lets present both sides of the Japanese internment story - looking at the orders signed by FDR and the oral history by someone who was there. The lets present both sides of view is valid at times but not all the time and it is used far too often to detract from injustices done, usually to a minority group living within a society where they are marginalized.

You realize yoda is a puppet, yes?

Me too! I thought I was the only who noticed XD

JohnPaul Ingress Well obviously in reality he was a puppet made for a movie back before there was much more advanced technology and CGI, she says this because he’s a wise character, besides she’s only drawing a comparison.

That's progressive. Jehovah's Witnesses were in camps and prisons in every Allied and Axis country if they weren't murdered out right. Simply for refusing to take up weapon s against others or work in an industry to assist war effort.

Oui oui

Yes sir?

Boat Master excuse me, I’m an otaku. Get your facts straight. Ugh.

@@tacocatt6808 more like a taco

Yakuza too and Nintendo, I forgot those.

No, I am native. I was born here in Texas, I am a second generation American descending from Mexico. You can flee oppression and Poverty legally.

@Charles Crandall Then according to your logic, don't get angry when all these illegal immigrants from Mexico & central america come here and conquer because if they are trying to invade and conquer ... they are doing it a lot more peacefully than europeans did.

That is because in our culture we have a terrible saying called "Shi kata ja nai". It means "There's nothing you can do". Our grandparents were so ashamed of their experience, that they were treated this way, that all they wanted to do put it behind them and move on. For many of my friends, when they asked about our history during this time this what their Ji-chan's and Ba-chan's would say, rather harshly and was followed by a seat to the head. Being from the Bay Area in California and growing up in the shadow of UC Berkeley, with somewhat politically active parents, I was lucky enough not to have had this be the pervasive thought in my family. The silence is damaging in so many ways. It not only robs us, the younger generations of our own history, but dulls our senses when we observe the racial injustices we observe against ourselves and others, and makes us less likely to speak up and be heard. If your interested, you should read And Justice For All by John Tateishi and the although they geared toward younger people the works if Yoshiko Uchida are amazing. Yoroshiku onegai shimasu

and especially Japanese and other Asians...the worst racists I've ever seen in my life!

Doesn’t fit the agenda

Humans are very different and we don't all have the same genetics so no. also, human race would be wrong to say because a race is an ethnic group and homosapiens are a species and not a race. A race is a group of people with similar genetics etc.

WhAT abOUt NasCAR

there's no such a thins as "human race"...go back to do some elementary biology, before spreading some BSs...

Because the Irish isn't currently oppressed.

@@Dreadboi1990 lol, so only things that are currently happening are relevant? Good to know!

Chris Russell ...blacks

@@ravenclawrules4640 Some people cant accept the truth bruh

What is happening to you? There are groups like The Freedom Project that may be able to help.

Some. Not all.

@@senoraisla That's what "in general" means.

Very true!

Same goes for most places, if not all

@Jaime Alonzo Thank you for your question, Jaime. I was primarily referring to people in the United States in that statement. I am not sufficiently familiar with racism and oppression in Central, South and other parts of North America to make such a statement about those places.

Statues created 90 years later are there to reinforce, not instruct. Graveyards and spot memorials are the most effective places to internalize our "mistakes". Museums that one can choose to visit as opposed to things in the public square that one cannot avoid. Naming schools, roads, and landmarks after supremacists is not necessary, either.

Lori - yes

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the human race is very diverse physically and culturally. i think it's beautiful to appreciate the uniqueness of all the different people on earth but that is very different from believing in race. the unscientific idea of race was created to divide humans into sections with clear boundaries, and to place different value on people according to which category they fit into. we now understand that these boundaries don't actually exist. where would you even put these boundaries? Where geographically does one 'race' end and another begin? Italians and Spaniards are technically 'white' but generally have darker skin and hair than northern Europeans, are we to put the boundary there? But Spaniards in the south of Spain and Moroccans in the North of Morocco look similar, so do we move the boundary further? You see genetic diversity is something that is useless to classify. Any given person in the world has ancestors from all over the place, people from everywhere have been moving around and having children with each other for 10's of 1000's of years so if there ever was such a thing as race it is now long gone. Also, there is more genetic diversity in Africa alone than in the rest of the world combined, which entirely invalidates 'race' as a concept. Soon there will be no division at all, we will have extremely similar distributions of genes across the whole world.

What beautiful and elegant way to describe willful-ignorance. Someone, not me, but someone should very proud of you.

It is changing in 1 or 2 decades white people will be outnumbered

*hi*

I wouldn't call being forced at gunpoint "helping".

I have. Wasn't worth the time. Something I haven't had shoved down my throat since 10th grade please?

@Charles Crandall I like your optimism. I agree 100% about the religion. But I am generalizing, apologies. Racism I believe is anything with which you make others' feel less than themselves. But thx for your feedback..

When you find it let me know.

Wikipedia has useful information about this in an article that is easy to find: _List of Japanese Americans._ That article includes people in America who are either from Japan, or have parents or relatives who were Japanese. Some of these are quite famous, including the scientist Michio Kaku, the U.S. Senator S.I. Hayakawa, and the _Star Trek_ actor George Takei.

@@misterlyle. Will have a look. thanks.

For who GERMATIC CAUCASIANS......?

How do you know dogs are not colourblind?

@Char Aznable *ROBLOX DEATH SOUND*

BECAUSE THE WORLD IS RUN BY AMERICA :)

Germany shouldve won back then :)

@@richtigerkekko334 I hope you don't live in the USA. If you do, you don't deserve it. Thankless slob.

@@frogsmoker714 You live in the USA?! Damn, man, i feel sorry for u. Not that its all perfect (not at all) here, but at least we got free education and free health care system for anyone. Lol just thinking of loosing your home because you cant pay the hospital bill of an operation after an accident or something, and that in a western country xD And thank god I will never be shot in a traffic stop by some nervous cop, just cuz i reach for my cell phone in the pocket. Or getting slaughtered in the public cuz every nutjob can buy a gun in the mall. But hey, way you talk "you dont deserve it", you must have really strong feelings for your beloved USA so keep on dreamin´ your dream.

Because it's easier to deny and forget then it is to accept fault, learn and grow. Since those Mexican were just an idea on the drawing board during Obama's administration we, the Japanese-Americans who put there, their children and grandchildren have been trying to tell people that we've done this before and it was a mistake, and it's amazing how little people care and dismiss us saying "but this is different".

Ashamed of what? Did you put anyone in a concentration camp? It makes no sense to be ashamed of or to take pride in accomplishments that are not your own.

@Jaime Alonzo What about yours? Conquistador much? I have zero buy to be guilty for things people did not do. Just wanted to make sure you were aware of the plank in your own eye

but, it seems he is not ashamed of being japanese, since he hides so skillfully the massive massacres done by japanese during the ww2...he failed to mention japanese racism which is one of the worst...they never hide how much they hate other asians, especially indians, koreans and chinese...

rather cheap and pathetic

@Max Smith Yes.

My mother was born in Tule Lake Relocation Camp and both she and I have spent our lives educating about our family's experience and I did not know that there were Canada had them too. Thank you.

The scale of incarceration towards Japanese Americans was much larger than for Germans and Italians. 130,000 Japanese Americans versus several thousand German and Italians.

@Un-broken and victorious Enemy factions? these were American citizens. Do you consider people born of a different race and ethnicity to you all enemies?

@Un-broken and victorious Do you also realize the the Japanese American unit that fought for Uncle Sam in the European theater became one of the Most Highly decorated military unit in American history for bravery and self sacrifice?

@Unlucky1819 hmhm yeah, the fascists at that time were known for their love towards socialism.

not

That's a lie. People separate themselves. Culture separates us not Race.

@Charles Crandall Everyone knows Irishmen don't exist. Those're just more funny sounding british people.

Turd - no ,not yrue

@@michaelweber5702 yes, yes true...

Well at least you can admit that racism exists even in USA

He is a citizen of the US, suffered as a citizen, so WORLD racism was not a catalyst for his experience at 6 years old.

@@JoeBattle3928 oh really, and others didn't suffer under Japanese during the WW2?!?!? Why don't you go to Japan to live and work there to see how they will treat you. They hate African people so much.

@@rococokitchen3988 I don't respond to hate with hate or fear. That mans struggle was legit. If I travel, I'll deal with it, if it happens, thanks for your "warning". Merry Christmas.

Well there are no colors, just rainbows. what color is a tree? Rainbow. What color is the dirt? Rainbow. My point is that it does a lot of help classifying people with similar genetics so you know what is healthy or not healthy for you etc. just like you wanting to know which color a tree is or the sky is instead of a vague answer such as rainbow

You sound like a hippie "sAVe THe tReeS" 😂😂😂

Germany, now that's a great country

last time I checked there hasn't been genocide on an industrial scale of Japanese Americans. In WWII, 30,000 people died a day. Japan had just declared open war with the US when they attacked Pearl Harbor, and the world was on the brink of chaos. If you think that the 1,862 Japanese Americans that died of sickness inside these camps, is even comparable to the 6.5 million Jews killed in Europe. You are exactly what is wrong with the world. Was it right to imprison innocent people? No it will never be right to do so. Is it good to try and measure acts of desperation and weigh them against actual genocide? No, it makes you look dense.

Greater than most of the Shitholes present, yeah.

Americans love their state but hate their county.

now, Japan is so wonderful, how many people have they massacred during the WW2???

I noticed that too but something's are more important then others.

So, it was ok to incarcerate USA citizens (people born in the country) just for their ethnecity and without a due process or fair trial?. To be a real american they had to be white?. They were concentration camps. Did they do the same for german-americans?.

@@vChilem yes, as well as Italian immigrants... About 1/3 of people interned during the war where from each of the 3 countries we where fighting

@@vChilem I just googled it, because I was curious too

@@thornbad no, the scale against Japanese Americans was much larger than than against Italians and Germans.

@@vChilem Who said anything about "real americans" having to be white? You want racism to end? Then stop with your own racism.

Probably Texas hahahahaha

Colonists and immigrants. Britain, France, Irish, Italian, Spanish, like half of Europe lol

Most of the early colonies were British, French, or Spanish. But settlers came from all over Europe. Especially once the Revolution was fought. And Africa. We should never forget Africa, though with quite a bit less freedom or choice and many more horrors.

@Charles Crandall you are making yourself sound like a small minded, bitter and terrible person,

@Charles Crandall well done ,would u like a badge and some crayons

if your get mercury poisoning from sushi its because its made from dolphin meat,

...really reaching for the alternative facts, huh? Unless you lived as long as the speaker, let him have his truth.

@Un-broken and victorious how do you know? 😳

Seems u dont get. He is EXACTLY ATTACKING THAT, xenophobia in any type.

@@davidsanchezplaza Yeah, with special emphasis on JAPANESE.

He's talking about how own experience. The fact that Japanese in Japan were or are racists is not his story and doesn't diminish what he went through

knuckle draggers live in the metropolitan areas of every big city run by democrats too

Race is still something considered because it tells a lot about your genetics and puts you in a group of people who have similar genetics and health conditions, food interests, etc. I would say that it should stop being considered though

Crazando anonymous That all has more to do with diet and cultural differences than this myth called race!

@@CKLewis Not all food interests and health conditions are because of diet. I don't have eye problems because of my diet. Race is just classification groups of genetics commonly based on facial patterns etc.

Bruh💀

rubbish...what Japanese culture exactly you are afraid of?

@@rococokitchen3988 The "Death before Dishonor" kind of culture

@@TheSkeletonSkier the honor in a brutal massacre of millions and millions of disarmed people, women and kids during the WW2??? I don't see any honor here. Are you talking about some fake honor fabricated in Hollywood?

@@rococokitchen3988 Yes, they took pride in these massacres...look at Nanjing

@@TheSkeletonSkier So chairman Mao massacred wayy more people than Nanking buddy.

Most of the natives are dead so they come up in my mind more than necessary. Considering I've met people of every race but not Native American

Unbroken you better read some real history and stop playing video games..

@@crazando you are in denial

@@johnmontelongo1523 in denial of what? Meeting native Americans? I've never met one face to face

We have no concentration camps today because deportation has nothing to do with race, they don't execute people, and not one of them are forced to work

there's no camps