Session 6 (10/20) readings

[Anonymous]

Wow! In response to the link about Dr. Seuss' anti-Japanese cartoons... I never knew. It's actually a bit upsetting to see these; however, when considering the fear America had during WWII, these drawings may be illustrating a sign of the times, so-to-speak. Certainly it isn't the first time that Seuss' works were considered controversial--"The Lorax"--but celebrity involvement in political issues, whether we care or not--isn't new either.

[Anonymous]

LIke the poster had said, many of us may be somewhat familiar with wartime propaganda in the US and in Europe, but I hadn't ever seen--nor had it ever occured to me--that countries such as Australia were also presenting their own. Fear...an interesting tactic.

[Anonymous]

The transportation of children to the country shows much forethought by the government - many governments whose countries were under fire shared that same foresight to save and perhaps train future generations of children. Whatever the reason, I wonder how being taken away from parents to live with strangers impacted the ability to connect with people and if it perhaps helped feed into the tradition of pride and death for country if necessary.

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[Anonymous]

I really did learn a LOT about the living conditions of the Japanese people during WWII. I was not aware of the severity of the lack of resources that the Japanese people faced during the war and the role that women/mothers played in the anti-war sentiment that eventually led to the Japanese surrender. I will show pictures to my students about the starvation that resulted because of the rationing that limited most Japanese civilians. I will also let them know that the desperation was so severe that many people had to abandon their children because they had to evacuate or because they no longer had the resources to take care of them. This led to hundreds of thousands of children being separated from their parents.

I know I will be able to use this knowledge in my classes so that the students have a much better understanding of why how the Japanese lived in that time period and eventually why they had to surrender.

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