So since, “For over 50 years… Americans has seen newcomers from Japan… as a threat to the ‘American standard of living’ (Myths, Prejudices, and War).” Being viewed as a threat automatically caused the Japanese to be seen as a liability to Americans and put the Japanese-Americans at a huge disadvantage. The Japanese Americans were not treated equally because of the previously formed bias judgements formed against them by Americans which was shown through “state and local laws [that] reflected the belief that people of Asian descent were inferior (Myths, Prejudices, and War).” Changes in the law against a certain ethnicity violates the 14th amendment which states that American citizens who should have been treated with the same rights that Caucasian American citizens were treated
So since, “For over 50 years… Americans has seen newcomers from Japan… as a threat to the ‘American standard of living’ (Myths, Prejudices, and War).” Being viewed as a threat automatically caused the Japanese to be seen as a liability to Americans and put the Japanese-Americans at a huge disadvantage. The Japanese Americans were not treated equally because of the previously formed bias judgements formed against them by Americans which was shown through “state and local laws [that] reflected the belief that people of Asian descent were inferior (Myths, Prejudices, and War).” Changes in the law against a certain ethnicity violates the 14th amendment which states that American citizens who should have been treated with the same rights that Caucasian American citizens were treated