TheGreatExchange

Japanese Discrimination History prior to WWII:
First, learn about the history of discriminatory practices, legislation, and restrictions of Japanese Americans in the United States by accessing this site:

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Issei - Japanese immigrants; first generation Japanese Americans Nisei - American-born, second-generation Japanese Americans Sansei - Third generation Japanese American
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 * Answer the following questions:**

1. What was decided about educating the Japanese in 1906?

2. Despite the Gentlemen's Agreement, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt, why did the population of Japanese grow in the United States?

3. What cut off all Japanese immigration for 28 years?

4. The Alien Land Law of 1913 said that non-citizens of the United States could only lease (rent) land for a period of three years and banned them from purchasing land. Why were the Japanese-Americans considered "non-citizens"?

5. Knowing what you do about the Nativist movement in the United States, and the discriminatory practices towards the Chinese, why do you think so many Americans were intolerant of the Immigration of the Japanese and their citizenship?

An Idea is Born:

 * Dr. Sidney Gulick believed that lack of understanding between the Japanese and the Americans was the primary reason for the friction between the two countries. He wanted to find a way to allow the people of the two nations get to know and understand each other's culture and society. He wanted to start with the children because he thought they would be more open to accepting each other. He also believed that if the children of Japan and America could learn to accept each other, then they would be less likely to fight each other in the future. They would grow up into accepting adults.**

6. What was Dr. Gulick's Idea idea? **Listen** to the following [|podcast] created by former Lakeshore students for the Milwaukee Public Museum.

7. **Summarize** the [|objectives] of the program?

8. What was all [|sent] to Japan?

9. What is [|Hina Matsuri] which made this idea a great one? Watch the video to learn more. media type="youtube" key="Oo-ynqax7Ho" height="344" width="425" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo-ynqax7Ho

10. Read about how America's "gifts" were [|received]. How did the Japanese express their country's gratitude?

11. Read about America's "gifts" from the Japanese. What was [|done] with the "gifts"?


 * Listen** to the story of [|Miss Ibaraki] Wisconsin's Friendship Doll. This was a podcast created by the 8th grade students at Lakeshore for the Milwaukee Public Museum.

12. What do you think about this exchange? What other ways could the children of America reach out to the children in other nations in order to gain a better understand of each other?