VIDEO: Katy Perry asks: 'Is history repeating itself?'
American singer, Katy Perry, has produced a video drawing parallels between the internment camps of Japanese Americans during World War II with US president-elect Donald Trump's advocacy for a Muslim registry.
The video entitled 'Is history repeating itself?', depicts 89-year-old Haru, an American woman of Japanese heritage, telling her story as a Japanese American during the 1940s.
"We were an American farmed family" who then had "our constitutional rights taken away" as America implemented internment camps, said Haru in the video.
Trump sparked controversary after openingly advocating the possibility for a registry for Muslim immigrants coming into America.
As the video goes on, Haru transforms into a Middle Eastern-loking woman. The video ends with the message: "Don't normalise hate."
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