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The internment of Japanese people in the US during WW2 didn't lead to genocide but that's probably an exception.

• nipponese 8y ago
  Americans of Japanese ancestry.
  • teachrdan 8y ago
    Relevant username
  • Retric 8y ago
    That’s a fairly nominal way of defining ethnicity. However, it was not limited to just Americans. Oddly, in Hawaii, where 150,000-plus Japanese Americans composed over one-third of the population, only 1,200 to 1,800 were also interned.
    • loeg 8y ago
      Not limited to, no, but the majority interned were US citizens. Yes, the internment was mostly limited to west coast mainlanders; Hawaii's economy would have fallen over if its Japanese-American population was interned.
  • loeg 8y ago
    About 2/3 citizens, 1/3 non-citizens. I'm not sure how much of the latter group were permanent residents or intending to become citizens. Certainly, the majority were Americans.
• gumby 8y ago
  Only a small number of Japanese became US POWs before the end of hostilities. However the US did put a large percentage of their own citizens of Japanese origin into concentration camps, which I think is the case you're talking about. Almost all of them survived and left the camps at the end of the war though most lost their homes and businesses. I wouldn't call that "genocide" per se, simply a basic violation of human rights.
  • maxxxxx 8y ago
    "I wouldn't call that "genocide" per se, simply a basic violation of human rights." I think that's what I wrote.
    • gumby 8y ago
      You wrote about the imprisonment of Japanese people (PoWs). I wrote about Americans put in concentration camps during the war.
      • maxxxxx 8y ago
        To improve the discussion even more let's be really pedantic and say "US citizens" since technically all people in South America and North America are Americans. I also don't know where I mentioned POWs.
      • philwelch 8y ago
        For a variety of reasons, the United States didn't end up with very many Japanese prisoners of war.