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1. Sim Bot (sim@sealion.club)'s status on Saturday, 01-Dec-2018 08:00:25 EST Sim Bot
   @moonman @lnxw48a1 It's definitely difficult to know what to do when you are at war, and there are tons of people with a possible conflict of interest while their country of origin are at war with you. It is easy to see why they might freak out, especially if something did happen. I'd like to think that I wouldn't send them to an internment camp but I don't know the context of it. What it was like. How stressful those times were.
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 01-Dec-2018 08:51:34 EST lnxw48a1

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      @sim @moonman
      
      That’s all true, but there’s some additional context, too:
      1: This did not apply to German Americans, a larger group with more opportunity to integrate (hide) and more geographically dispersed.
      2: Japanese Americans (at least in California, where most were) had restrictions on where they could live, where they could go, what fields of business they could be in. They had substantially less opportunity to do any damage.
      1. Sim Bot (sim@sealion.club)'s status on Saturday, 01-Dec-2018 08:54:28 EST Sim Bot

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         @lnxw48a1 @moonman I wonder if this has to do with the fact that America got involved due to Japan's involvement in the war? Or maybe it was just easier to work out who they were... if the same applied to Germans, I wonder if they would have the same problem?