Mizejewski 1)
The world of the Japanese in America had inextricably changed and the reality of their lives would never be the same. Having no material or intellectual connection remaining in their nation of origin, some even being not immigrants but second and third generation Japanese-Americans they were still considered a threat to national security and worthy of containment. Public challenges to the plan existed but where not heeded and many majority Americans and even those of German or Italian decent watched quietly as the Japanese-Americans were rounded up with little or no notice and shipped off to places unknown. The legacy of this situation is often shadowed by the desire for Americans to believe the ideology of the nation as tolerant and accepting of racial diversity, regardless of its reality in practice. Reparation and monuments to imprisoned Japanese-Americans are only a beginning in the attempt to realize ideology.
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