Section A02
Week 5
In this week's reading about "Empire of Death", by Dr. Hamamoto talks about a rather cruel deaths in America and how it involved the Asian community. He starts his paper with the history of mass murderers and serial killers. He talks about who the first victims were and how they escalated over the years. He goes over some very gruesome stories about incidents that happen to Asian families in which very intense things happened which I'd rather not type about. A lot of the story talks about how Military veterans came back duty from wars and such come back and feel this need for the act of murder or possibly empowered or mentally disordered from the fact that they killed people.Some of the stories come from people having this superiority complex over racial power and wanted to dominate people of color and or race.
I know that this is what really happened and I shouldn't look away from what happens, but it was honestly a really hard read because what kind of sick people there are in this world. It brings you the cruel reality into perspective about the upbringing of America and how we are lucky to live in a possibly "more" peaceful time.
I just wonder why people have this sick of a need to bring such pain to people or have this need for dominance over race?
Hamamoto, D. Y. (2003). Empire of death and the plague of civil violence. In Boggs, C. (Ed.), Masters of War: Militarism and Blowback in the Era of American Empire (pp. 272-296). New York, New York: Routledge.
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