The Lesson of the Internment of Japanese-Americans During WWII: Remarkable News #8

The Lesson of the Internment of Japanese-Americans During WWII

In the 1940s Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family were living in California when Pearl Harbor was bombed. 

Her family was uprooted from Long Beach and placed in the Manzanar internment camp in the High Sierra of California. In total, 120,000 Japanese suffered from similar treatment. 

This action was done in the name of security; the fear was that people like Jeanne’s family would sabotage America’s war efforts. We are seeing similar anti-immigrant sentiment today.

Her story embodies several important lessons for us all:

• Good people can do bad things under the stress of war. Thus, imprisonment based on race or religion could happen again.
• In the face of injustice, people adjusted, survived, and eventually thrived. The human spirit is, after all, resilient and hardy. 
• If people had the opportunity to get to know strangers who are seemingly very different, they’d probably discover that they have much in common. 

To listen to her explain what happened, what she learned from her experience, and how to prevent something like this from happening again, CLICK HERE.

Stay safe and keep physically distancing,

Guy

Photo credit: Ansel Adams, Sign to Manzanar and Farmworkers at Manzanar Relocation Center, California, with Mt. Williamson in the background

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Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist Canva, an online graphic design tool. He’s also a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He was previously the chief evangelist of Apple and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. His books include Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life, The Art of the Start 2.0, The Art of Social Media, and fifteen others. He has a BA from Stanford and an MBA from UCLA, as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College. He and his wife, Beth, have four children.