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The Train to Crystal City

The Train to Crystal City by Jan Jarboe Russell which took place in Crystal City, Texas

during the World War II is an engaging, fascinating and sobering look at a military which brings

up many controversial topics. The book brings one important idea which is how America creates

the minorities with different culture than most into the enemy. An age-old question is why

discriminatory action still exists. Governments, societies and individual people create the

minorities into the enemy by treating them poorly, abusing them and excluding them because of

their variances.

Why are individuals treated as minorities? This is a problem that the author has identified

as it has been carried until today. The main reason why this problem still exists is that people are

not willing to accept their differences with the minorities. The difference is that the majority still

feels that it is the responsibility of the “others” to assimilate to them in order to make life stress-

free. Nevertheless, during the World War II in America, it was never a point of concern whether

German or Japanese Americans assimilated themselves into the American culture. The author

represents the inhumanity of this idea in The Train to Crystal City and how this issue is a

worldwide habit that requires to be smashed.

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The author of The Train to Crystal City also reveals the impacts of exclusion on all the

prisoners. The prisoners were totally banned from a ordinary life. This is evident when Ingrid

reported that, “the confinement is crushing,” (Jarboe, 104). This was a heartless adjustment that

all the internees had faced. This is also illustrated in the book by the author when he states,

“Once the internees are inside the barbed-wire fence, they would be inmates too, living under

continuous surveillance by the armed guards. All of their mail would be censored, and even

Lothar’s comic books would be examined for coded messages. Trainees would be the daily focus

to inspections,” (Jarboe 84). This is an illustration that shows how the German families were

treated like inmates. This unjustness by the government is shown in this excerpt. It looks obvious

that restricting the minorities from their daily normal lives as well as enforcing to laws that is

against their rights would make them rate America as an enemy to them.

From The Train to Crystal City, it shows how the ruling government abuses and excludes

the minorities and eventually turning them into the enemy. Abusing certain people and taking

away their citizenry and rights because they are from a different culture is against everything

American government stands for. Since assimilation is key to an easy lifestyle, people have been

doing this from the beginning of time. The author also illustrates how the government left out the

internees literally and figuratively through keeping them fenced in and censoring them. The

internees’ rights were also abused by the government by deeming their citizenship insufficient.

This is a general public book with lots of information on how the minorities were abused. I will

recommend this book since it is on point and easier to understand as compared to other books

that I have read before. Other scholars have reviewed the book has an important book which the

government will one admit what it did to immigrants. In conclusion, the main cause of this issue

is not the abuse of the minorities but their creation.

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