How come in World War II, Japanese-Americans were placed in internment camps, but not German-Americans? (I'm not saying they should have; it just seems inconsistent)
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Public opinion was very much against the Japanese after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. There was fear that Japanese-Americans were acting as spies for further attacks, and so they wrongly placed thousands upon thousands of innocent people in internment camps "to protect the US from further attacks". The public was also against Nazi Germany at the time, but THEY didn't incur any attacks on US soil to really hit the sentiment home, so there wasn't the same sort of irrational fear that German-Americans were loyal to Nazi Germany and were going to create further attacks on the US.
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Kokuryukai, The Black Dragon Society American government feared this fifth column influenced Peace Movement for Ethiopia Brotherhood of Liberty for the Black People of America Temple of Islam March 27th, 1942 F.B.I. arrested members of The Black Dragon Society in San Joaquin Valley, California
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Fundamentally, racism. Germans look like the ruling classes of the US, many of whom had Anglo-Saxon ancestry. Japanese looked different and came from a markedly different culture.
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