Mittwoch, 6. Juni 2007

Homework : Letter to a friend from a child of a family which was arrested in a camp

Dear ...,

are you alright? I am not, because policemen knocked at our frontdoor and told us to enter their car when we opened. They took my whole family away and put us into a concentration camp. We asked why they did such things to us, but we were only told we were brought to the camp because we are Japanese. So I want to ask you if you're alright because you're Japanese, too, and I hope something like that won't happen to you. You should tell your family about my message and try to escape to a safe place. I don't know what they might do to us in the future, but I think they might perhaps force us to leave the country and go back to Japan. Well, there's nothing left I could tell you, I'm happy that I can write this letter to you, I hope you receive it.

Good luck! Yours sincerely ...

Donnerstag, 26. April 2007

Murder on Vincent Chin

Vincent was murdered by two white persons who thought he was a Japanese American.
Before they killed him they discriminated him and then they finally attacked him with a baseball-bat. When his murders got on trial they only got a fine of 3.700 dollars and 2 years probation time. Can this be the case that a human life is only worth of 3.700 dollars because he comes from another country? If they had killed a white American person they would stay in prison for their whole life. I think the most annoying thing on the murder is that the government also thinks that the life of an immigrant isn't as important as a life of a white person.