1. Identify three examples of aspects of life in Manzanar that are culturally ignorant/insensitive to Japanese Americans. Explain your choices.

There are numerous examples of the aspects of life in Manzanar that not only culturally but immorally is insensitive to Japanese Americans. Just the fact to racially profile individuals for investigating or deterring terrorist activity is ethnically insensitive. Jeanne in “Farwell to Manzanar,” describes the entire situation at the camp as “especially in the beginning-the packed sleeping quarters, the communal mess halls, the open toilets-All this was an open insult to the private self, a slap in the face you were powerless to challenge.” (Houston, 34)

#1. Regardless of their origin or culture, just the idea of the conditions in the barracks when the Japanese and Japanese Americans first located to Manzanar was horrid. “The barracks had been divided into small units and were crowded. Dust and wind blew in from the outside through cracks in the walls. The only furniture was Army surplus cots, blankets, and mattress covers.” (Huston, 29). Which eventually “the War Department issued military surplus clothing to the people in the camp. They also brought in sewing machines and turned one barracks into a …show more content…
The inconvenience of the lack of privacy and the overcrowding, none the less, create a physical embarrassment that eventually turns into an emotional distress.

2. Analyze why the loyalty oath that the Manzanar internees are asked to sign is so tremendously divisive. What does “loyalty” mean under these circumstances?

The two questions that were on the Loyalty Oath asked if the signer was willing to serve in the United States Armed Forces on combat duty. The second question asked if the signer would swear unqualified allegiance to the United States of America, defend the country from attack, and forswore any allegiance to