Chapter 885 Useless Brain

Before the war between Japan and the United States, some Japanese nationals were evacuated, but the Japanese who had become American citizens were left in the United States.

After the Pearl Harbor incident on December 7, 1941, President Roosevelt signed a decree to establish a "military zone" on the West Coast, and all Japanese in the restricted area were required to move into "resettlement centers" located inland.

It's not a place like a concentration camp, theoretically.

At that time, 90% of Japanese Americans lived on the West Coast, including 70,000 citizens born in the United States.

Although they claim to be loyal to the United States, "locals" are still hostile to them, including the president, who fear they may engage in sabotage and espionage.

In order to prevent these Japanese Americans who believe in the emperor from destroying and detecting the U.S. military and important industries, the military is responsible for deporting Japanese Americans near important military installations.

These "military zones" set up inland have the same curfews as Jewish settlements, but the conditions are much better than those of the Jews in Warsaw. More importantly, the Japanese living there are protected in disguise and are not restricted areas.

Instead, Japanese Americans have to worry about attacks from colleagues, neighbors and even the newsboy who delivers newspapers to them.

Japanese Americans in California, Washington, and New Orleans immediately left for resettlement camps in Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. However, a Japanese American living in San Leandro, California, Matsu Toyosaburo, refused to carry out the order.

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Then he was arrested.

Matsutoyo Saburo appealed to the Supreme Court, focusing on the constitutionality of deportation and resettlement orders—whether the military's temporary deportation of specific groups of people was racial discrimination.

During the investigation into the execution of the deportation order, a group of Japanese-Americans confirmed their allegiance to Japan, some refused to be unconditionally loyal to the United States and refused to be loyal to the Emperor of Japan, and some of the deportees asked to return to Japan.

War will cause many difficulties, and difficult times must be overcome by everyone. In the end, the Supreme Court found Matsutoyo Saburo guilty of defying the deportation order and upheld the original verdict.

This verdict proves that when the country is in panic, racial discrimination protests have to be put aside. Also heard with this case is the Hirabayashi case. This Japanese-American violated the curfew. Japanese-Americans must arrive at 8 p.m.

Stay home before 6 a.m. to avoid espionage and sabotage activities.

Saburo Matsutoyo was born in the United States to Japanese parents. The birthplace principle stipulated in the Constitution made him a U.S. citizen. There is no accusation that he is disloyal to the United States.

War is a collection of sufferings that affect all citizens, military and non-military, and citizenship has rights and obligations.

However, even after the war ended, the United States still ostracized the Japanese. The United States and Japan were allies at the national level, but many Americans had lost relatives in the war, or had participated in the war themselves, and they were very unfriendly to Japanese Americans.

Those Japanese who moved into the settlements also lived in trepidation. The Japanese in the camps came from all walks of life, including women and children. Apart from their skin color, they had nothing in common.

Auschwitz has a crematorium, but the resettlement camp does not. They have sufficient food sources. Adults work in the camp, while children can go to school and have some leisure and entertainment from time to time.

But those who dare to escape will be shot, so most people still obey orders according to the rules even if they are dissatisfied with the country's arrangements for them.

Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes and give up their property. By 1943, as the United States was considering drafting Japanese Americans to form a special military force, the WRA gave these Japanese Americans war status.

Conduct a "Loyalty Questionnaire" to test which motherland Japanese Americans are loyal to, the United States or Japan.

Faced with such a questionnaire, many Japanese Americans are not only confused, but even angry. Some groups, mainly young men, chose negative answers to these two key questions. They are nicknamed "Say No Boys"

” and was labeled “disloyal”.

Roosevelt's General DeWitt once said: A Japs will be a Japs.

After the end of World War II, many Japanese Americans successively fought for state compensation and lawsuits, and the U.S. government also successively compensated some Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in internment camps without reason.

But after losing money, the discrimination continues. Asians are generally very studious and have better grades than other races. "Locals" think that the best high schools and universities in the United States are occupied by Asians.

Asian parents will feel very embarrassed if their children don't get all A's, which makes ordinary white children with B's become the last in the class.

However, Ivy League schools have a quota for recruiting new students. The school has a quota of 1,000 students. It is stipulated that Asians can only have 20%, which is 200 people, and 70% of white people, which is 700 people. In other words, an Asian student who works very, very hard,

With all A's in his grades, he may fail, but a white young man who doesn't work as hard as him can easily enter a prestigious school like Wharton, unless his Asian parents spend money to buy a spot.

There is a word in the United States called "Bamboo ceiling", which refers to an invisible wall. Bamboo is related to Asia. In American companies, many Asians are at the bottom, and a few are in the middle. There are basically no senior leaders.

The competition among boys is so fierce, let alone girls.

Japan's traditional education is that men go out to work, and women stay at home to care for their husbands and raise children. She does not need to study well, she is going to get married anyway.

Western-style education is about equality between men and women. Nakamura Yuki is not willing to regard her academic qualifications as added value in dating materials. Scientific data shows that a son born to a smart mother is also very smart, so she came to the University of Padua.

Become a medical exchange student.

American culture has many "inspirational" stories, as if you can change your destiny as long as you work hard.

Yes, some Asians can get good jobs in the United States, such as lawyers, but everyone knows that Asians are coolies. They have been trained since childhood to endure hardships and stand hard work, so Asian lawyers in law firms do the hardest work.

White lawyers only do the most important work. They are "quarterbacks". There are also a few Asians who counterattack, but that is a very rare situation. It is a miracle like Moses parting the Red Sea. Otherwise, the background of his parents' family can be used.

, you can’t break through that bamboo ceiling just by studying hard.

It is not easy to integrate into American society and be recognized, which has caused some Asian students to have the misconception that it would be better if they were not yellow.

This is the same as joining a fraternity and you will be punished. The worse you are punished, the more loyal you will be.

The situation in the medical field is somewhat different from that in law firms. Male surgeons are the "kings" of the hospital. They are all superstars. Female doctors will be recognized by them if they are skilled in skills, while others will be ignored by them.

Their attitude towards the nurses was very bad, even though they themselves thought they were super nice people, after all, they often ordered sushi for everyone to eat.

There is an effect called the Milgram Obedience to Authority Paradigm. This experiment was designed to test the subjects' ability to resist human nature when faced with orders from an authority that violates their conscience.

In 1963, the experimental team placed advertisements in newspapers and sent many mailing letters to recruit participants to come to Yale University to assist in the experiment. The experimental location was chosen in a basement on the old campus of the university. There were two basements with walls

Separate rooms. The advertisement stated that the experiment would take about one hour, and the compensation would be $4.50. The participants ranged in age from 20 to 50 years old, and included a variety of educational backgrounds, from elementary school graduates to doctoral degrees.

Participants were told that this was an experiment about "the effectiveness of corporal punishment on learning behavior" and that they would play the role of a "teacher" to teach another participant in the next room - a "student". However, the student

In fact, it was faked by the experimenter.

The participant will be told that he was randomly selected as a "teacher" and received an "answer sheet." The experimental team will also explain to him that the participant next door who was selected as a "student" also received a "question sheet."

". But in fact, both pieces of paper are "answer sheets", and all real participants are "teachers". "Teachers" and "students" are in different rooms. They cannot see each other, but they can see each other through the wall

Communicate with each other through sound. One participant was even informed in advance that the participant next door had a heart disease.

The "teacher" was given an electric shock controller that allegedly started at 45 volts. The controller was connected to a generator, and was told that the controller could cause the "students" next door to receive electric shocks. What the "teacher" obtained

There are some well-matched words listed on the answer sheet, and the "teacher"'s task is to teach the "students" next door. The teacher will read these word pairs one by one to the students. After reading, the teacher will start the test, each word pairing

Four word options will be read out for students to answer, and students will press a button to point out the correct answer. If the student answers correctly, the teacher will continue to test other words. If the student answers incorrectly, the teacher will give the student an electric shock every time he answers incorrectly.

, the volts of the electric shock will also increase accordingly.

Participants will believe that students will really receive electric shocks every time they answer incorrectly, but in fact no electric shock will occur. In the next room, the student pretended by the experimenter turns on the tape recorder, and the tape recorder plays in conjunction with the movement of the generator.

Pre-recorded screams, as the volts of the electric shock increase, there will be more amazing screams. When the volts increase to a certain level, the fake students will start to knock on the wall, and after hitting the wall several times, they will start to

Complains that he has a heart disease. Then when the volts continue to increase to a certain level, the student will suddenly become silent, stop answering, and stop screaming and other reactions.

Voltage "student" reaction

75 V muttering

120 V scream in pain

150 V said he wanted to withdraw from the trial

200 V shouted: "The blood in my veins is frozen."

300 V Refuse to answer questions

More than 330 V silent

By this time many participants expressed a desire to pause the experiment to check on the students. Many participants paused when 135 volts was reached and questioned the purpose of the experiment. Some continued after receiving assurances that they were not responsible in any way

test. Some laughed nervously when they heard students screaming.

If the participant expresses that he wants to stop the experiment, the experimenter will reply to him in the following order:

please continue.

This experiment requires you to continue, please continue.

It is necessary for you to proceed.

You have no choice, you must continue.

If after four responses, the participant still wants to stop, the experiment will stop. Otherwise, the experiment will continue until the punishment current applied by the participant increases to the maximum 450 volts and continues for three times.

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But the result of the experiment was that 65 percent of the participants in the first experiment reached the maximum 450-volt punishment, although they all showed discomfort; everyone paused and questioned the project when the volts reached a certain level.

The experiment, some even saying they wanted their money back for the experiment, was that no participant insisted on stopping before reaching 300 volts.

In the real world, would a nurse refuse an order from a doctor she didn't know?

This experiment was conducted in 1966. 22 nurses received a phone call from an unknown doctor and asked them to give the patient a drug immediately. The name of this drug is very professional and non-medical professionals will not know it.

, but this drug has a fatality rate, and the "doctor" asked the nurse to give twice the maximum dose.

Ten of the 12 nurses said they would refuse this "unreasonable request". However, in the scenario, 21 of the 22 nurses chose to obey the order, and only one refused to carry out the order. And those 21 nurses would have refused if someone had not stopped them.

The medicine was poured into the patients' mouths. In fact, when the experimenter stopped them, they were already dividing the medicine.

Before Yuki Nakamura left the United States, a disgusting prank happened. A person pretending to be a police officer called the manager of a fast food restaurant and asked him to search the young female employees in the restaurant because he suspected that they had

Suspected of possessing stolen goods.

These managers blindly believed what the "police" said on the phone, took them to a back room, stripped them of their clothes, and searched them thoroughly for the so-called stolen goods. Later, the abuse escalated into sexual assault. This kind of influence of absentee authority

Induced dozens of people to violate the law, the company's system and their own conscience. Among them was a female manager. She didn't know how she was manipulated by the "police" and actually asked her male assistant to sexually assault female employees."
To be continued...