History of Asian Americans - Brittany Le - Christine Sivilay - Mollie Frager

KAra village Located in Schofield Barracks , the Kara Village was built to imitate Southeast Asian villages to prepare soldiers for the unknown land of Vietnam . The Kara Village became a " laboratory of war making " while it processed more than 1000 soldiers each month in rotation for the Vietnam war . how did this Affect hawai'i? With the establishment of the Kara Village , Native men of Hawai ' i ' s National Guard were called to act as Viet Cong villagers to help train white soldier be familiar with encounters in Vietnam . Natives wore " donning black pajamas , straw hats , and rubber sandals ," to represent Vietnamese villages .

Information was gathered from "Aloha, Vietnam: Race and Empire in Hawai‘i’s Vietnam War" by Simeon Man