- What I learned from the video and readings about the criteria for citizenship is that if you are a race other than European white, it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been living in the U.S it will be difficult to become a citizen because POC don’t have power/privilege’s of their own to defend them. Europeans whites and Asians who were recruited to fight in the war were basically allowed to be citizen or belong to the U.S. According to Lopez it states ” Japanese immigrants shared much in common with their European counterparts, yet every European immigrant group regardless of national origin, had the right of naturalization and precisely because they possessed it no matter how beleaguered they were”. Europeans had more privilege’s to becoming citizens, and Asians had to fill out the loyalty questionnaire to show their loyalty to the U.S.
- Today what i think defines citizenship is when you live, work, and spend your money here in the U.S makes you a citizen because the government is still taking money(tax) from you since money is what it’s all about. People in the military serving the U.S and people who bring money and goods would be considered to be part of the U.S because they’re benefitting the U.S and some of them are not really thinking about the real ones who have to face the fear of their own countries
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