Why were Japanese internment camps bad?

Answer 1

Two reasons ;-

1. Japan did not sign the Geneva Convention on the case of prisoner of war (POW's)

2. The Japanese warrior code is ' win or die' . Surrender to become a POW just doesn't exist in this code.

Because of these two reasons their POW camps were extremely bad.

Internment camps for civilian population were hardly any better.

Human dignity as known in Western Culture , was just unknown to them.

Answer 2

Japanese people were taken away from things that they loved. It was obvious that the Japanese Americans were loyal to the United States and were citizens of the country. Finally internment camps we made for the Japanese only since they were not entirely white. Germans and Italians were not singled out to be in the internment camps because they were white even though the United States were fighting against Italy and Germany too. So this shows discrimination(segregation).

Answer 3

It is generally bad when people have all their possessions stolen from them and then have them put into prison with their wives and children. It is even worse when the people in question are citizens in good standing of their country but are "criminal" for having the wrong ethnic or national origin.