How Does Mass Hysteria Affect Modern Day

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To know how mass hysteria still affects modern day, we have to look at an example from the 20th century, The Japanese internment camps. Nearing the end of World War 2 JFK signed executive order 9066 which effectively made it possible for military leaders to choose individuals of any ethnic background who had a possibility of defecting from the united states if the time arose. This meant for the thousands of Japanese citizens, two-thirds of which were born in America, that they were going to be forcibly removed from their homes on the west coast. Most of these Japanese citizens were given a week or two, but it the most extreme cases they only had a day. When the citizens left they were forced to sell all of their belongings, this meant that

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