E O 9066

Thanks for doing this research. This is very important information to spread around, especially with what is going on today in the world of Executive Orders.

I also recommend checking out E.O.9066, a beautiful puppet-performance by Lunatique Fantastique.

Rock the Hapa!

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1976?! For realz?

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thats a lot of words and captions for a task that doesn't need words.

some of those pictures and articles are very interesting.
espicially the article "how to tell japs from the chinese" it makes me wonder what criteria was needed to determine if someone was japanese and needed to be interned. could it be done on name or looks alone?

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Oh, I'm so excited for you! Being a halfie myself (half white, half east indian), I get so excited when I see others exploring their ethnic backgrounds. I won't go into my whole life's story here (I tend to do that...) but I've always wanted to know more about my non-white/more elusive side. Keep on researching and let us know what you come up with!

correction?

well in the notes of the Order 9066 as it's stated on the one webpage the order was annulled in 1945, which makes sense since the Japanese got to leave the camps and go (somewhere else) in 1944.

[NOTE: On December 17, 1944, the United States rescinded the mass exclusion ordered under Executive Order 9066, effective Jan. 2, 1945. See Public Proclamation No. 21, 10 Fed. Reg. 53 (1945).]

and then in 1976, President General Ford gave a formal apology because I guess there was no formal statement of Executive Order 9066 being terminated.

It helps when I actually read the documents I find on the net :)

Here is text from Ford's apology:

Because there was no formal statement of its termination, however, there is concern among many Japanese-Americans that there may yet be some life in that obsolete document. I think it appropriate, in this our Bicentennial Year, to remove all doubt on that matter, and to make clear our commitment in the future.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim that all the authority conferred by Executive Order No. 9066 terminated upon the issuance of Proclamation No. 2714, which formally proclaimed the cessation of the hostilities of World War II on December 31, 1946.

hmm I think President Regan is somewhere in there too. I'm getting confused with the dates especially after looking at PBS's WII Internment Timeline. Apparently, PBS did a documentary about the children in internment called "Children of Camps"

k I think I'm done learning about my history for the moment. I'm turning Japanese,
I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so

ah man I'm not sure what I think about this :) hehe...

The meaning behind The Vapors song, "Turning Japanese." I guess somethings are meant to remain a mystery.

From wikipedia:

"Turning Japanese" was often rumoured to be a euphemism for excessive masturbation, and the subject of the song. This is based on the perception that people make a face where they squint their eyes and curl their lips to expose the upper incisors during masturbation and orgasm, resembling the stereotypical image of a Japanese person. Although Dave Fenton viewed it as a love song when writing it, he would alternately confirm and deny the rumours in interviews [1].

if there is any comment about this tangent you can contribute to the debate online at:
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=689

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I had that song stuck in my head all day yesterday. But i never knew it wasn't actually about turning japanese

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I think the story works without the commentary, but the commentary makes it even more enlightening.

What a disheartening world we live in. If only it was run by the kind of people that play SF0.

Diversity Dolls - Bratz vs. Barbie

So I was doing research on the Jweekly cause I'm applying for the graphic artists job and they have an interesting article on Bratz vs. Barbie dolls both of which were created by Jewish entrepreneurs.

The article points out the creator of Bratz, Isaac Larian, and his sexy, hot, teeny-pop dolls are an example of the Americanization of Jewish culture in society. Larian arrived in the US at age 17 with $750 in his pocket, now runs a mutli-million dollar toy-line.

I think it's also interesting that the article points out back then: "...“assimilation” was not the dirty word it is today" and so the white, thin American Barbie doll was as normal as American Apple pie.

Below are some quotes from the article in San Francisco's own, Jweekly:

"Bratz were created in 2000 by Isaac Larian, an Iranian Jewish immigrant-turned-toy entrepreneur, who had set out to create an anti-Barbie. Legend has it that Larian was turned off by the swollen-head prototype a designer showed him, but his then-11-year-old daughter, Jasmin, was enthralled by it.


and there's the creator of Barbie:

"Perhaps it is no accident that this doll had a Jewish creator. After all, back in 1959, Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler — the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants — created Barbie.

Back then, “assimilation” was not the dirty word it is today — it was a goal. As such, Handler — a savvy businesswoman who convinced her husband to turn his Lucite and Plexiglas furniture-making hobby into a lucrative business — created the ultimate American fantasy: the leggy, buxom blonde who remade herself as the notion of the ideal American woman changed with the times, from stay-at-home mom to the uber career woman who does it all and still looks good."

Note: Bratz have feet that snap off making it easier to put shoes on them!!!!

Here is another link to an article on the same topic:

I think this is a funny quote from the orgtheory article:

"The other remarkable thing about Bratz is they don’t look like Barbie at all. They are short, have trim figures and are of ambigious ethnicity. This is the exact opposite of Barbie, who is tall, busty and definitely blond. What I found odd was that the “ethnic” Barbie looked like the regular Barbie with a bad make up job. The Bratz come in all kinds of convincing colors and because she has curvy eyes and lips, could be of nearly any ethnicity. Add ethnically vague names like “Clara” and “Yasmin” and you have a doll that can be marketed from Iowa to Beijing."

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this is smoothie from sarah's account because i am too lazy to switch plus the battery is dying on this machine. i just want to say that bratz are just younger and therefore they are the bigger hoebags -- at least barbie is old enough to make her own decisions.

oh my I learned more....

so my sister may not be to happy I'm posting this but I think it's important and it being part of my story as well I'm taking the liberty of expanding the story of the Japanese Internment. Below is what my sister emailed to me after looking at the task I completed here:::::::


Very interesting...there's alot more to the story...
if you'd like to know about it...
grandma Aiko's birthday was December 7th and they were
preparing for her party at the house...she tells the
story that soldiers came and broke records, tore down
her decorations, threw the chickens they cooked on the
floor...ruining her birthday for the rest of her
life...
Patsy was born in an interment camp in Hila, Arizona
Aiko's brother James Hamasaki and his family never had
to be interned because he worked for the Ambassador to
Formosa...
Grandma's family was giving a release form telling
them that they did not have to stay in the camps
because of James Hamasaki's high ranking in the
government...but our great-grandfather burned
it...there was no way they were going to leave the
camp and all their friends, in fact they were the last
to leave...
after they were released they had to live away from
the coast in certain areas of the country and ended up
living in Minnesota--
the war ended when the dropped the bomb on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki... Our family originated from Nagasaki
and all of the Hamasaki's brother and sisters and
family we're killed if not during the bomb being
dropped but the fire bombs before hand.
there's more but one last thing to consider is the
psychological impact it had on our family---and other
Japanese families

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Wow. Never noticed this one before.

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