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Always!\u00a0 This little story off the AP<\/a> is otherwise pretty interesting.\u00a0 It\u2019s about the effort to preserve the interment camps in which Japanese, German, and Italian Americans were rounded up and held in the days following America\u2019s entry into WWII.\u00a0 Kudos for the story for mentioning the oft overlooked fact that we did round up Germans and Italians as well. So often we focus only on the Japanese, for one thing because of the numbers involved.\u00a0 But also, I have a hunch, because it plays better into the America=Racist theme that has dominated our self reflection for the last 60 years or so.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Of course there is much to go into with this story.\u00a0 What did America do?\u00a0 Where was it right, and where was it wrong?\u00a0 Japan loves to point out this little blurb on our human rights record, but how did those foreign nationals in Japan fair at the outbreak of WWII?\u00a0 Not nearly as well as those rounded up in America.\u00a0 Not that it justifies our actions, but we should always want to qualify, to keep things in perspective, to see what really happened, what could have happened and didn\u2019t, and how and why things turned the way the did.<\/p>\n

But for me, I had to ask: why today?\u00a0 Why run this story today?\u00a0 It isn\u2019t as if the project just started today.\u00a0 It\u2019s an ongoing project.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because in America we absolutely will not allow ourselves even one moment of congratulations without at least three counter stories of America\u2019s failures.\u00a0 Except for the 60s, we emphasize only the bad.\u00a0 And on those rare occasions where either we were the victims, or we seem to have done something good, expect a triple\u00a0dose of negative stories over the next day or so to even things out. <\/p>\n

A reader on one of my posts<\/a>\u00a0commented that we, as a nation, lack self-confidence.\u00a0 An individual obsessed with guilt and only able to see the negative in his life will never have confidence.\u00a0 Neither will a nation.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"