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title: "Why weren’t Americans with Japanese descent from Hawaii sent to the internment camps? How could this be seen as a double standard by the country?"  
description: "Why weren’t Americans with Japanese descent from Hawaii sent to the internment camps? How could this be seen as a double standard by the country?"  
author: "tasman Johnson"  
published: 2018-04-03  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40561/why-weren-t-americans-with-japanese-descent-from-hawaii-sent-to-the-internment-camps-how-could-this-be-seen-as-a-double-standard-by-the-country  
category: "usa history"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Why weren’t Americans with Japanese descent from Hawaii sent to the internment camps? How could this be seen as a double standard by the country? 

Why weren’t Americans with [Japanese](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1654/an-unrevealed-ecosystem-discovered-underneath-the-icy-antartica-s-surface-by-analysts) descent from Hawaii sent to the [internment camps](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/101149/what-were-the-japanese-internment-camps-during-world-war-ii)? How could this be seen as a [double standard](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81787/india-needs-to-counter-double-standard-china) by the [country](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2337/vikram-s-the-country-s-first-privately-developed-rocket-will-launch-on-november-15)? \
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