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These kids ask better questions than many adults
Watts ikr
I think some questions they are told to ask but I agree, they are more curious than I expected to be asking so much
They ask honest questions. Kids are always honest and ask away. Adults would like to ask some questions, they just stop themselves and then regret it.
@@MsMichaela999 so true
I think cause they don't have some stereotype about stuff so they're more curious instead of acting like they already knew
1:58 "But you didn't do anything bad" DESMOND IS WOKE AF
Does this word even have a meaning anymore?
and when he asked why they didn't put the Germans or Italians in too... I love this kid!
That’s called common sense
Not even about being woke - just human!
I wonder if his grandfather was put in a camp
"Were there s'mores at your camp?" she's so innocent
I was waiting for him to say “no we had spam”
This makes me crack up now! She didn’t know it was that kind of camp.
The innocence of our precious little children is very touching.
Desmond: “Would I have been put in a camp?” Dude: “Yea” Desmond: *surprised pikachu*
LOLOLOL I can't unsee it 😂
Almost made me cry😔
2:38
mashaal h best comment ever
VIBE CHECK
I know Shox personally - it should be noted that he served 24 years in the US Military, working his way up from Aviation Cadet to full Colonel in the Airforce. He flew over 200 successful combat missions in Vietnam and was awarded multiple service medals. Also, despite the order for internment, in early 1943 Japanese Americans were allowed to join the Armed Forces - tens of thousands signed up.
What a fascinating man! Thank you for sharing. Send him the internet's warmest regards if you still have contact with him.
That is so amazing !
Wow thanks for sharing 👌🏽♥️
Thanks for the Japanese Americans for their service and all other service men and women.
The conduct of our government rarely earns the sacrifices people are willing to make for their country, yet those people choose to pay that price anyway. All the more reason to remember and honor what they've done for us.
“that is REALLY racism” the future is so bright w these kids
すてきoownow I tried SO hard not to laugh
Well... The world or environment will do the rest, but hey it's not wrong to have hopes, right?
Unlike American POW's captured by the Japanese who all died. Japan was way more racist than America. Still is.
Right? The fact that they are aware why it is wrong is something I don't see sometimes with people who are 20 years older than her
these kids make me a little less scared for the future.
Kid: How old were you when it happened? Man: I was 8. How old are you? Kid: 8 Also kid: *hold up*
The Japanese-American internment is a severely undertaught and overlooked part of American history. It’s a shame. Especially since the Japanese-American people tried so hard to assimilate to the American life. The 442nd Infantry which was comprised of young JA men is even the most decorated unit in US history. Great job, HiHo, for shedding light on this topic.
Wish he taught/reminded me it was FDR as president during those camps
BECAUSE THE US ARE EMBARASSED FOR THEIR MISTAKE! They’re kinda censoring history in my opinion... But I’m also biased because my mom’s parents and grandparents went through this terror.
@@emiki7762 I remember my Social Studies class being about WW2 for like 2 months. A month of that we covered the Holocaust. Then we watched a documentary about the Holocaust, then we read an excerpt from Anne Frank's book. Then we talked about Pearl Harbor and that was it. I never even heard of the Japanese-American internment until right now.
@@radioactive_baby0706 History is created by the winner.There is little to teach about the history of Japanese Americans, the negative past of America. but the history of the incarceration of certain ethnic groups is happening again.Need to know
I learned this in 7th grade and I was surprised... normally I’m always hearing about Jews in concentration camps but I didn’t think AMERICA held Japanese people in camps as-well
I feel like this might have been life changing for Desmond.. you can see the wheels turning and he relates so hard.
Yeah, I think it hit him harder than most, being the same age, and also being part Japanese.
The look on his face when he was told he would have been in the camp, and learning he was the age Shox was when it happened, was heart stopping. I love that they’re learning about this stuff so young, but my word I wanted to hug Shox and all of these kids. I wish I’d been taught about the Japanese camps at their age. It was years before I learned about them, and it was on my own time doing research, not through my school curriculum. They’re so gentle and mature for their ages and that’s such a good thing to see.
@@stormyphillips251 me too I found out reading a book about a boy in one on my own when I was about 10 or 11, they never told us in school
Yeah it was hard to watch ... I feel sad 😔... but it shows kids are born so pure and good and it’s the social conditioning that leads to racism ... kids are my hope and future ...
@@stormyphillips251 I was able to learn it at my school curriculum but my library had a very decent and healthy set of history books where I found them and wanted to know far more about it. . .Sadly, I don't think many kids get the same chance I had in learning and exploring more about even the dark aspects of history. .. It's become far too more popular in the last 20 years in order just to bury your head in the sand and insist that these bad things just simply didn't happen. This is especially true in Southern states, and they definitely have their own motivations for doing so-throwing sand on the whole involvement with the Civil War, things like that. But kids deserve to know everything that happened. Not just the good parts, but especially the tragic parts. They need to know about internment camps. Anne Frank and the entire WII-Germany. Even the Serbian conflict of the 90s-that never gets talked about anymore. . .Because it is ALREADY clear that since we refuse to learn from history, it's only growing back like a cancerous tumor. And like a tumor, if it is not treated, it will spread and decimate vital "organs" of our society. . .
an episode of native americans who live on reservations... would be very eye opening
@Lionbarber Fireball omg thanks!
I was thinking of our native populations as well through this video. I wonder how deep into the nitty gritty details the last episode went. Kids need to know what we did to our indigenous peoples too.
And an episode on the Chinese exclusion act would be beneficial too
@@kelsiechoy9269 Would be difficult, as it's a very long time ago and it mainly targeted people not in the US. Would be interesting to have something more general on Chinese or Asian racial discrimination or something.
DanAndHoe the Chinese exclusion act happens banned all Chinese immigrants coming into the U.S in 1882. Lmfao where are you getting your info sweetie
2:34 "Would I have been put in a camp?" that was kind of a crucial moment
Yeah
1. Sandor is one smart cookie. I'm constantly impressed by how well-read he is. 2. Crystal's description of camp was so sweet and innocent. 3. I had no idea Desmond was part Japanese. 4. I love how respectful the kids were and the intelligent, earnest questions they asked.
About desmond you can see it in his eyes, some Asian genes are there present, usually slanted eyes is a feature that goes on in other generations, my friend had her two great-grandfather/mother that were Asian (by her mom side) and she and her older sister (not so much the young one) had their eyes like that
Yeah
5:28 When he said "its happening with Muslims and we gotta save them" i cried
Which part????
i just commented the same thing 😭
Me too😭
Me too 😭
@@spanish111japan chill out.
1:28 Even though it was such a horrible memory for him, he was still laughing at Crystal's innocent answer which is adorable. Also, I know I've said it in other videos but Sandor is indeed one intelligent kid.
When the kid realized she would also be in one, and she was the same age as him at that time.
Yes, Xander never fails to amaze me.
which one is Xander
@@elinemdw8698 He's the brother out of the siblings in this clip.
Yea
This Japanese person is amazing and cares about everyone no matter who they are ❤️ from a Muslim
Amen.
What you said is very true! ❤ From a christian
Random Name yes there are Christian people in middle eastern countries but the majority are muslims
@@mizchief7305 ❤️
Bless you.
As part japanese american, my grandmother along with many of my relatives of that generation was also put in prison in the japanese internment camps during WWII in Camp Poston III. I had to sit through my US history lecture in high school hearing students justify the executive order and devalue the treatment she went through. The lack of aknowledgment of racism and how much they insulted my grandmothers experience brings me to angry tears to this day. This is a US history topic that is hardly brought up enough in public schools. I cannot thank you enough for this video. It feels as though I can hear my grandmothers words through him.
Wow! You’re classroom enacted critical thinking and had the students try to reason why people would have done what they did and other kids reason why they should not have?! Should have fired the teacher for even thinking of teaching the kids about looking at both sides.
@@SadEyes1412 Homie can't even differentiate between "your" and "you're" but wants to talk about critical thinking smh
@@SadEyes1412 Lmao keep making excuses until you're homeless, friendless, useless, meaningless. The comment only said that his teacher justified the executive order and downplayed the treatment. You always look at both sides. Beyond that, you can continue to dance around the bush like a coward or you can say the rights do not outweigh the wrongs. Unless you were fine with the camps of CITIZENS and then have to nerve to recruit or draft them to the frontlines? If you do, you've made it clear what you are in terms of low character.
The way Desmond was so engaged you can just see it on his face how hard it was hitting him. Ngl I got a bit teary eyed :(
I think it hit him harder because he was the same age as him and half Japanese. After realising he would have also been put in a camp he was shocked.
Kid is really smart
Michelle Le Music it doesn’t matter. In those days any part non-white is non-white.
@Michelle Le Music so?
I'm all out crying
2:41 "That is sort of racism" *Crystal MY SMART QUEEN*
woke queen
idk, I don't know if I would call it that
Jordan Igoe she’s exaggerating while trying to appreciate the intelligence of a child ... let her live
I love her
She’s incredibly smart, when I was her age I had never even heard of the term racism
Dang that one kid's so insightful, noticing that Japanese folks were put in camps but not Italian or German folks.
They were, 11,507 Germans and 600,000 Italians. The U.S knew everyone and where to find them, they weren't able to just blend in. Especially when you were made out to be an enemy, everyone would just rat out your whereabouts if you weren't already taken out of your home by morning.
@@Hi-vx2bb Incorrect... You're right about the Germans. But as far as Italians, although about 600k had some measure taken against them (e.g. being relocated or placed under curfew), only a *couple hundred* were put in camps. Previous commenter's comment is accurate. Even prior to WW2, millions of European immigrants made their lives and their children's lives easier by changing their names to something less "foreign" and just blending in as white people. Little Alessandro Rossi is brought to America and becomes Alexander Ross, and when he grows up and shakes his accent it's easier to get a job, a bank loan, and a place to live, because in the eyes of the law and society he's just another white guy.
@@Hi-vx2bb According to what I've read, they did experience restrictions but there were just too many of those with German and/or Italian descent to relocate everyone. Only a fraction of the numbers that you mentioned were actually kept in internment camps BUT of course, faced severe discrimination. Ultimately, the skin color and quantity made the difference.
omg when she said "were there smores at your camp?" I was like PROTECT THE INNOCENCE
I mean we're there?
Right! She's asking the real questions here
He must be everyone’s favorite uncle or grandpa
Watts he's my great uncle. Can confirm, he's awesome.
underrated comment right here 🤧
Watts true dat
Grunkle
@@brettoyanagi9441 Wait, are you for real or you pulling my leg??
Desmond, brilliant question! Why not Italians and Germans?
K Rezwan, I know, right? There are adults who wouldn't think to ask, why not Italians and Germans?
Italians and Germans make up a huge chunk of the white American population and a lot of people could lie about not being either. Besides, by the time internment was used, war was pretty much over in Europe. The US was fighting out their own war with Japan.
@@laurenpierce835 This sounds like you are making excuses for why we/Japanese/Some Chinese and not whites were treated as "other" and enemy of the state. There are clear records and a lot of last names were dead give aways for German and Italian descent. I think it is pretty clear why non whites were targeted. Also, the 1st internment was in 1942? D-day wasn't until 3 and a half years later in 1945. Your point is moot, apologist and quite disheartening.
swingsetup I am by no means trying to seem apologist. I'm sorry I came across that way. And yes, I did get the dates wrong. However, my point still stands that the Japanese were targeted and not Germans or Italians because one, Japanese looked different and therefore caused suspicion and hysteria, and two, a lot of white Americans have descended from German or italian heritage and therefore would have made it difficult to try to detain them. Whole states have populations that are 50% German, and there is a strong italian presence in New England. It's just not possible to try to detain those two groups. The sad reality is the Japanese were targeted based on how they look and their relatively recent presence in the US, compared to Germans/Italians, who had been immigrating and integrating a century before the Japanese.
Italian and German nationals *were* interred, but not citizens and their children like the Japanese. And German Americans were interred by Wilson during WW1. Not being apologist (and I'm old enough to remember the reparation and was happy about it), but the Japanese attacked American soil and killed many people. You can understand why there was a kind of hysteria. Discrimination was also much more common in that era and, being pre Civil Rights Act, wasn't even illegal.
Desmond: "Do you think it could happen now?" Yes Desmond, unfortunately, it even happens now to the Uyghur people at the concentration camp in China. Respect to Shokes for standing up against such event to ever happen again.
nobody cares that's not in the united states, doesn't matter
@@bigfloppa5731 right
“Would I have been put in a camp” “Yes” “ohmahgod”
* God 🥰
I had an uncle who was forced into the camps. It was very had to hear his words when I was little. He was in his early teens when our US government showed up after school and said pack a bag then they took him and his family away for years. WE CANNOT FORGET!
Horrible
@Treestump that doesent/didnt just happen in the US, removing and sending disabled people to mental hospitals/asylums is a thing that happened all over the world up until the Early late 80's atleast here in Norway, it was seen as shamefull to birth a disabled child, that might have had to do with religion as well, as far as i know it was seen as a sin to birth a disabled child, and that it was punishment for your actions, for all we know they could have been told that the only way to repent the sin was to look your kid away in an institution never to be thought about or spoken about ever again. The most fucked up thing tho was all the experiment do be in the form of labotomy, Electric shock treatment and LSD experiments, Norwegian mental hospitals was at some point paid a large sum of money by the US to administer and experiment with LSD.
My grandfather was forced into the camps with his family when he was 4. He was still traumatized till the day he died. Such a horrible event that we much not forget so that history does not repeat itself!!
keriezy That’s horrible. This is a blight on American history. What they did to the Japanese was disgusting, and it’s not talked about as much as it should be.
you uncle is lying to you.
I feel like you could really see this effect Desmond when he realised that he's also Japanese (part) and the same age as this man was. I think this was an important life moment for him and I want to give so much credit to HiHo for creating moments like that for these kids.
Mad respect for Shox! Let us ALL make sure history doesn't repeat itself!
I love how he was still able to laugh at the irony of sitting around the cardboard box 'Japanese style' because they didn't have furniture. Humor is a great healer
This is an important part of American history that gets hidden from the US textbooks. Since so many are unaware of this, history is very likely to repeat itself, as Mr. Tokira mentioned about Muslims (and we could include refugees as well). I'm so proud of how open-minded and receptive these children are!
It's not hidden because I clearly remember learning this in school. People just don't talk about it much. Probablyy because they weren't killed like the Jews. But no one should ever have their freedom taken away. Truly inhumane, ignorant, and racist
@@ApRiL3706 It is slowly being erased out of lot of school's curriculums along w/ a lot of another atrocities the US committed (for example, a text book called slavery mass immigration). When I was in school, the Japanese concentration camp story was in a small corner of one of the pages but it justified it sort of. We have to
@@ApRiL3706 it depends on the curriculum, and I'm glad your school system did! I only learned about it when I took AP classes in high school because College Board, not my state, determined what we should learn.
No one is proposing interment of Muslim Americans.
Sara Lee one of the kids in the video literally said they were learning about it. One textbook may be taught in your school and not represent that side of history very well but that doesn’t mean it isn’t represented elsewhere. By every issue can be pressed as well. I’m sure you were still being taught about many important issues in that time.
3:45 "Could you imagine having seven Kristen?" "No I'd lose my mind, I can barely even stand one" SHE'S SO CUTE😂😂
When you comment 5 times on the same video.
That made me cackle. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
ok but calm down
JAPANESE INTERNMENT CAMP JUSTIFIERS: Well at least they weren't killed like the Jews JAPANESE AMERICANS/CANADIANS: Oh yeah thanks for not killing us. Just uprooting our whole lives and treating us like prisoners is the great way to go!
@@sunshinecreole1319 it's not a competition calm down. this video isn't about that, it's about the Japanese in internment camps. go elsewhere
@@kristophert932 Sir, I was not speaking about competition amongst a group of people. I was speaking about experiences compared amongst certain ethnicity groups of people that has suffered ill treatment from the hands of European and Anglo Saxons people. The education system, especially in the USA has failed to educate the history of what really happened to the Negro people during the Atlantic Slave Trade and the true history what really happened to the Negro people when they arrived in the USA. So therefore, I am in my right to speak what is facts and truth about a certain group of people who just happened to be Negros who suffered and experienced more heartache and pains than any other ethnicity group of people in this world. As of today, the Negro people are still experiencing heartache and pains from their oppressor.
@@sunshinecreole1319 I´m sorry but the native americans are going to extinction. You need to learn compassion. Read about Brazil for example. Also you need to acknowledge what you achieved. You have Oprah, the Obamas, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Denzel, Maya Angelou, Steve McQueen (director). When they make movies/tv series about the bible most often black gets cast, but no middle easterners, the Thor movies black among other ethnicites but no scandinavians, the witcher black people cast but no east europeans. Also the world is complex. When France attacked Algeria, the north Africa at least had been invading and taking europeans for slaves for hundreds of years. Europe was locked in from east and south. Today there are slavery in Africa, sadly enough. People that support racism against black people today seam too praise an industrialized world and look down on people, that didn't and don't live like that.
@@jainamaden156 native Americans aren't going to anywhere in Brazil lol, we have reserv largers than entire countries
@@makky6239 They're being killed right now to take their. These news has reached the outside world.
5:30 crying because I didn't expect him to brought that issue but really this man is so strong...
Wow, great education 👍🏻 learning every day.
Yup yup
it is good education because they certainly do not go over this very much in American schools.
I was DEFINITELY taught the history of Japanese Internment in America; I even was required to write an in-class essay on the topic for midterms. Even a presentation on the topic for extra credit! Schools may have different ways of teaching, but you can’t say that the US is hiding their past atrocities - not when you’ve got multiple youths & young adults that have grown up being made aware of it. Students in AP classes are taught even more so in-depth on this topic as well.
@@bufunga That does not justify improsoning people because of there race. That would be similar to the UK goverment improsoning people of Irish descent when the IRA where setting off bombs in England.
*imprisoning.
this is SO IMPORTANT. not enough people know about this!
Speak for your own generation. Mine knows about this, it was happening when our parents were alive. And if people had more curiousity/ambition, they would study history and know these things. Too many people with their head stuck up their Apples.
It is important but literally everyone knows about this lmao. It's taught in every American history class in public school.
Wren K very much not true but alright. it’s taught very briefly in a lot of american high schools and all im saying is that a lot of people don’t know the full extent of what happened.
Never forget that FDR, a DEMOCRAT, made this decision
Here in Russia we know a lot no matter how old we are. It’s a great pain for our nation.
My grandpa was in one of those interment camps during the war. Sadly he passed away when I was 6 and I never had the chance to ask him about that. 19 years later I still feel horrible for not only taking advantage of a firsthand historical perspective that was unique, but that I never told him how happy he made me.
"there are things missing from our history books"- a slam poem, the girls said it best, i never learned about the camps in school and i wish i did.
Especially the German and Italian interment camps! You'll never learn about those, they "have never happened". 11,507 Germans and 600,000 Italians same time as the Japanese under the same act.
@@Hi-vx2bb Sources
ahw desmond made me cry. the look on his face..
This didn't just affect Japanese Americans, but Japanese Canadians also were put into camps like these.. their houses and boats and business were auctioned off while these families were forced into these camps.. so when they finally were released years later, they had lost all their property. A true atrocity, but what a resilient group of people...
Yeah I’ve read about that before. Some took advantage to rob Japanese people’s houses of valuables, while others took care of their Japanese neighbor’s farms and such so that they’ll have something to come back to. There’s definitely two kinds!
Canada is very good at glossing over its dark colonial and white supremacist history.
They only got 20,000 for everything they lost. And if a victim of the camp passed away before the reimbursement, your family wouldn’t get anything.
I think the same happened in Peru and Brazil. In Argentina, after the war, there was international pressure to punish the japanese, so they confiscated their properties, but were given back once everything calmed down.
Basically if you had any type of Japanese in you..you’d be sent to the camp
2:31 I NEVER knew he was part Japanese😱😄
"Where there smores at your camp?" man kids are so pure
"I´m speechless" Desmond is such an empathetic boy.
Dont assume their gender
@@compashinpei No lo asumí. Lo sé porque el se define así. A Desmond lo veo desde que tenía 3 o 4 años. Parece que sos nuevo en el canal. Empeza desde los primeros videos y vas a ver a estos niños crecer.
@@poptemporanea Ay perdon, eso no sabia! Pero la verdad es que no estaba serio, era media broma jajaja porque en este canal hay mucha gente que dice cosas ridiculas sobre genero
I’m a Swedish Muslim . And I didn’t know anything about this. We only learned about the German in school, never about the Japanese . This is so interesting and educational. God bless him
In indonesia not even everyone gets an international history lesson in school. Only those who major in social science
Here in Norway, we were taught about all of the countries involved in the war, but I can't remember if we were ever told of the internment camps in the US... The focus was usually on the Germans, seeing they kinda invaded us, and occupied my hometown as we're on the coast.
VampyrMygg same
in school we only learned about the germans aswell, never about the atrocities performed on all the sides
In Greece as well, as Germans fcked us up really good. But don't worry. America hasn't stopped fucking other countries until today, so we have plenty to learn and see from them "in the name of freedom".
5:57 and I’m crying ! That’s inhuman to do that and as a Muslim, seeing that the US are trying to do the same to Muslim countries make America feel so upset. And even doing this to any other country is horrible and being able to do nothing about it is heartbreaking 🤬😭 His calm and nice word all along this story is moving me to tears
Awe that's so sad
“Were there s’mores at your camp” “It wasn’t that nice” Melted my heart the way he said it to here can’t explain why
In fact it would be scary. I’m muslim. I wish we could all live in peace, and respect one another no matter where we come from, nor skin color und no matter what religion
I was searching for this kind of comment me to I'm muslim
*and no matter which sexuality =)
St Da exactly. all equal
I agree with you, I wish that was no war.
I'm muslim too n im totally agree with you
his voice is so trembling, remembering the memory full of pain , and still he keep trying to calm , what a strong man
Still love how they keep educating these kids. And of course Crystal is still adorable.
I'm from Scotland, and although I studied the world wars, it was all from a British/European point of view.... I never knew this happened. Thankyou for continually educating children and adults alike. This was very respectfully done. These kids are going to become very wise individuals!
As an Ex-Muslim who lives in an Islamic country, I really appreciate how he acknowledged what the US is doing to some of the islamic countries. It is really important to teach kids and make them aware that Earth fits us all if we would stop harming each other and peace shall be the only solution to any racial conflict.
Provocateur Provocateur Why would you say so? The problem is in acceptance which a huge number of both religious and non religious people lack.
Denounce Islam
Thomas Dalby Why?
Yahia Khaled I’ll let you figure that one out
"What the US is doing to our countries" and do you know what muslims are doing in europe and the US?
They're so lovely and respectful. Beautiful kids, thank you for sharing guys. Love, x
I want to give this guy a hug. He’s seems so sweet 😭
May God bless him . As Muslim I really do appreciate him and his wisdom and the way he treated those cute kids
I found George Takei’s TED talk on this subject enlightening too. Especially about what comes after the families were released. They didn’t just slot back into everyday life; the poverty and suffering continued for years and years after.
I find that in this country the Government and legal system have a hard time telling people that made a mistake let alone compensating them. Though they are quick to take away everything you own if you make mistakes.
everything was taken away from them; their houses, clothes, belongings then sent out with nothing but the clothes on their backs. my husband's grandparents where all in the camps with their families, they got separated and sent to different parts of the country. took them decades to find all their family members after that.
@@kristophert932 Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park wrote a good song about this for his side project Fort Minor, song is Kenji
Lmao i saw the video in TED first then this vid appeared after it
Somebody give him a hug from me 😭😭😭
I love him for standing up for the muslims!😫❤ god bless him and his family.
2:41 *un-sure* That is sort of racism, a bit *off camera* Yeah! *sure* Ya that’s really racism
History will repeat itself in a much larger scale it's written in the bible
XxImperial_JCxX I don’t believe that.
XxImperial_JCxX when you keep quoting the same book for 2000 years, yeah, history will repeat itself.
XxImperial_JCxX Cringe. Go back to the Middle Ages, you don’t belong in the 21st century. Stop holding the rest of us back.
@@kingtut7213 shut up and let people believe whatever they want. religion isnt holding us back, intolerance is.
As a Muslim, I really appreciate the content about racism in this episode. We can learn something from every episodes of Hiho Kids channel, especially for our kids. Let's spread peace in the world, STOP RACISM, STOP ISLAMOPHOBIA.. thank you Hiho Kids 😍😍😍
Andi Anisa Nasir agree!
Agreed
_"Stop racism"_ Ok, fine, but Islam is a religion, not a race. _"Stop islamophobia"_ Ummm... NOPE!! Islam is an ideology, and ideology that I personally hate. I also hate other ideologies as Withe Supremacy, Catholicism or Communism. All of them deserve to be criticized. I do not hate muslims though, I think they are wrong about a particular issue, and I have the right to criticize their position about that issue. That does not mean that i think they should be banned in western countries or expelled. "Islamophobia" is a bullshit concept used for elude any criticism or debate about the ideology. But anti-muslims bigotry exists and is a real problem. IDEOLOGY ≠ PEOPLE. *Humans rights are for HUMANS* . Ideas have no rights!
@@bernitakt1437 you are wrong on so many levels. Islam is a religion, you are right but seeing most of muslim are Middle Eastern and north african makes it a racial issue. I remember an indian sikh was attacked and murdered by white supremacists because he looked "iranian" to them. You see they were judging him by ethnicity. Everybody should be able to believe whatever he or she likes as long as it's not harming anyone. And you think Islamophobia doesn't exit you should really watch fox news or whatever trum says.
@@erik.... isn't what you described racism? Btw when your president sells your country to russia you will find out how wrong were you.
DESMOND IS GROWING UP SO FAST, I'M FEELING LIKE A PROUD MOM ❤
these children never cease to amaze me, the depth of their understanding of social, political emotional circumstances is just beautiful. These gems give me hope. x
The parents of these kids are doing a brilliant job! I have seen more empathy from them than adults have in these episodes!
Crystal is all grown up now. Time flies!
R u sure?
I am so glad to hear someone from his generation talking about the camps. His parents generation insisted on being stoic. I didn’t catch his full name, but Shoks is so awesome to come tell the kids about our country’s difficult history. It’s important that we remember the injustices & mistakes too. A lot of Seattle businesses were abruptly disrupted by the imprisoning of Japanese citizens. But so many of the families returned, some came home to nothing. Others who were more lucky came home to neighbors who held their property in trust. Knowing that our commander in Cheetos wants to imprison our neighbors to the south chills me. But Shoks gives me hope.
You're really dumb
I'm Japanese-Filipina and my grandfather in my mother's side was 1st generation Japanese-American and his family were in the internment camps while he was fighting in Europe in the US Army. This reminds me of the time when I was in middle school and I asked my grandfather to come in as a guest speaker for my class as we were learning about WW2. It warms my heart to hear the innocence, curiosity, and sympathy from these kids learning from this dark part of our history.
This guy came into my classroom to speak XD
These kids are going to realize in a few years the true honor they had of speaking to this man. The older boy seemed to appreciate it because he was learning about it in school, think the others were too young to know what it is yet or what he really endured to grasp the importance or how scary it was for him. But I hope they all watch this again throughout their life as they start to understand more of the past. I’m seriously jealous they got the chance to speak to him! I remember getting to speak to a holocaust survivor and it made me never waste any food after that.
The good part is that it's on tape and online so they can go back to it and re-appreciate it.
Steph’s Manic Shenanigans I wish I had the opportunity you had. But anyway, hope you have a great day :)
I love Japan grandpas they're cute af
*Japanese grandpas*
@@ApRiL3706 lol thanks tho
Oh
“They’re cute af”
Every time I watch one of these videos I think how amazing their parents must be for raising such empathic kids, they’ll definitely become wonderful adults
Young Desmond identifying with the situation. Both encouraging and heartbreaking.
Now we need one about people who live on native american reservations
Don’t they choose to live there?
@@JuanSaucin Native Americans were forced to live on them and still reside there today.
@@JuanSaucin No we aren't forced but it's a deeper connection. Growing up on a reservation is hard to explain. And it's not as easy as just leaving. It in most cases comes at the price of losing that connection with our culture. Most natives view that as the most important part of the being and like I said it's hard to explain
What is that?
Well some the people are sad and others people are happy and middle class they are very varied as some who lives 2 mins away from one and is member of one in Canada they aren’t that bad where I live
OMG I luv this episode, I’m from Hawaii and my great-grandfather was a Japanese-American when world war 2 happened. This reminds me of him❤️. He was around 8-10 years old too
Interestingly, very few Japanese Americans in Hawaii were interred.
Thanks Shokes, kiddos, and staff. This is so needed, more than ever.
I love how curious and unfiltered kids are. No one else would so willingly ask him about his life and be honest about how they feel
6:21 look at how cute shokichi is And also the way these kids ask questions, mindblowing. More respect for you too hiho for offering this to the kids!!!
DESMOND'S BACK 😍
My grandpa was atually born in an internment camp and lived there for a while. Such a horrible thing, i love him so much
Everything that they experienced was so heartbreaking. We have to remember these things and fight as a people to prevent anything like this happening again.
I'm so glad this channel continuously initiates important conversations like this, bc our education system frequently erases the perspectives of other countries to which we caused so much harm. Great vid!
What's important about it?
Thank you from a Muslim ✌🏻💚
5:20 listen,this is really important and true
I am in tears watching this video. When Desmond asked if he would be put in the camps, my heart broke. When I realized Shox was the same age as Desmond in the camps, my heart shattered. What a horrifying reality to have to learn. My heart hurts so much.
I feel fine
These children are so smart and very respectful..... hats off the parents and their learnings
In middle school I had to do a 10minute speech on a topic from American history and I specifically picked the Japanese-American Internment Camps because my Mother had told me about meeting a local survivor. I wanted to know more about the topic and did the best I could to research the subject. Everything that this survivor is talking about were examples and anecdotes I remember talking about. Back in 2016 (after college for me) I went to a convention and George Takei was speaking during a panel, someone asked who he was voting for in the upcoming election. George Takei responded with, "Let me tell you why I'm not voting for who I'm not voting for..." and then spoke of his personal experience in the internment camps. He related them to the unrest at the time about Muslims and that people had been lobbying for numbers on Muslims (like in the German camps) and that they should be put in a specific location (like the internment camps). I think a lot of people had forgotten that the US also put citizens in camps during WWII and that day they were reminded by someone they looked up to. I can only hope these kids take away from this a sense of solemnity towards what this man experienced and the knowledge that what happened to him and others was wrong, so we must endeavor to not let it happen again.
Poor baby...was shook when he said he would be in the camp i cried
He's so humble, nice and calm, I like him
I didnt learn about this until I was a junior in AP US history in high school, and it was so brief because my teacher wasn't supposed to go over it in her plans, but she felt it was an important part of American history. This is such a crucial part of American history and I'm happy that this is being taught to these kids and put on this platform.
as a muslim this really touched my feelings thank you for educating kids about it
maya kaimk20kj me 2
feelings only for yourself.
banana lemon my country was destroyed as well and my grandfather was killed just because of his religion and nationality and i am not blaming christianity but the human doing it since all religions have one goal which is peace also speak for yourself only, most turkish people i know love islam altho they are not muslims you are the one being disgusting
@banana lemon you can't blame the whole religion it's the Turkish government only who is making those rules if you don't like that you can maybe...leave ik a lot of Turkish ppl who love the religion
maya kaimk20kj how does you being a Muslim have to do with anything?
Awww, I just wanna give him a huge hug rn❤️❤️
I could hug all of them
My grandma was also taken from her house up in San Jose and placed in the Gila internment camp in Arizona they lost everything except what they could carry that includes the house car etc and once they were taken away the neighbors were allowed to take what they wanted if anyone lives in the Los Angeles area you can visit the Japanese American national museum
darklord90266 wow what an interesting story! I live in Arizona so i found this extra interesting
The first old person whose story im willing to listen to over and over
really? i find a lot of old people have really interesting stories to tell if you ask the right questions.
Eggfreg thats right’ dont know how that dumbfuck over there thinks old people are boring
This struck hard as a young person that is Japanese-American. My grandparents lived in internment camps, and to this day, they never talk about it. I don’t want to ask, because I know it was painful for them.
Because they are humble and don’t dwell and live in the past. They know what happened, happened and crying and being angry about it still is useless and counter productive. They instead stand up and do good for themselves and don’t let such things drag them down or use it as an excuse to be a failure.
@@SadEyes1412 You don't know OP's grandparents, so don't presume to speak for them. There is nothing shameful about crying about, being angry about, or not wanting to talk about a terrible injustice that was done to you, even years after the injustice happened. In fact, the world would be a better place if everyone who suffered injustices complained about it instead of adopting your attitude of keeping their noses down and minding their own business.
just donated all that was in my PayPal for Shox. I appreciate him educating and shedding light on this traumatic topic. It is so important that this does not happen again.
I really love it when these kids learn something new and different from someone who actually experience what happened. It's eye opening, even for myself just hearing the person live the experience. Just wow! I love videos like this.
Bless his heart, I couldn't even imagine if that ever happens to me and my family 😢
Thank you all for such amazing videos. Sharing stories, being honest, and connecting with others is so powerful.
he’s such a sweet person :((( my heart
This man 💕 afther what he goes through, he had a big empathy for others 😢
Wow what an amazing man, I hope he and his family never have to experience this type of treatment ever again. I would love to see the full episodes of all of them, especially Desmond and Crystal. You can see it really hit home with them and made them think.
I have learned about this and of course given it thought, but now watching it and hearing him discuss it it’s much more emotional. The fact that he had to endure this at such a young age is heart breaking. My respect for all the people that had to lose their homes due to such blatant racism.