19th January 2003, 10:30 PM
Well... sort of. While the Germans, etc were also slurred, it was different towards Japanese. Just look at any World War II US propaganda cartoons or comics... generally, Germans are not looked at NEARLY as harshly and nowhere near as stereotyped... Note that only Japanese-Americans were put in camps by the government, not German-Americans... No, the US treatment of Asians was markedly worse than its treatment of Europeans. Its a fact and its why in those comics while Hitler is more often a foolish character, Japanese are either evil or ridiculous (stereotypes of them were pretty bad). I t doesn't take looking much US stuff from the period to figure out that... it was fortunate for the Germans that they were European.