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THE APPALLING RACISM DURING THE CONFLICT IN THE ASIAN THEATER OF WORLD WAR II

By

Charles

Modern China and Japan

Karen Garner

December 13, 2006

"In the United States and Britain," According to Dower, "the Japanese were more hated than the Germans before as well as after Pearl Harbor. On this, there was no dispute among contemporary observers. They were perceived as a race apart, even a species apart -- and an overpoweringly monolithic one at that. There was no Japanese counterpart to the 'good German' in the popular consciousness of the Western Allies."
Beside the genocide of the Jewish, racism is still one of the larger ignored subjects of World War II. "Anti-Semitism was but one manifestation of the racism that existed at all levels in the United States and the United Kingdom." It is clear that the Allies were predisposed to racism even before fighting broke out with Japan, while criticizing Germany.

This analysis of Nazi racism by Western scientists and......

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Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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