Video Screening on Japanese Immagration

The thesis or main point from this video is show how much of a hard time it was for Japanese to come to America and work. While everyone in the world wanted to come to America for better fincial situations, the immigrants who came did not have it easy off. Immigrants, in this case Japanese, were put to hard labor forced to live in horrible housing and were treated as slaves in some cases.

The video gives great details to show the hardships the Japanese faced while coming to America, and how they over came those hardships. When immigrants were brought over for labor they were forced to work in fields. They were also forced to live in living camps with horrible housing and minimum privacy. Japnese put a strong emphasis on education and put together a schooling system fro children in the camps. Although field work was greuling, people wanted to work in the fields to get out of the inclosed fenced in camp. Workers were put into small work groups, and every different work group had a watcher. That shows you how bad the housing situation was because people would rather do hard labor than stay in the camps. At times there was fifty people living in one shed. Times were hard and Japnese over came those problems and turned out alright. These camps were posted in Hawaii which was where most of the immigrants arrived.

Two Discussion Questions
1.) Were familes split up or did they live together?
2.) Do you think that you could have ever survived these camps? I think it would have been extreamly hard to wake up in those conditions everyday. If I was a younger child it would have been easier because you would have accepted the situation for what it was and never thought anything of it.

This video screening gave me a better perspective on how immigrants were treated throughout this period. I did not get the pictures from the reading, but it helped me to picture what the camps looked like and how people lived while be confined.