One of the most telling arguments against the race thesis was the humane way in which the American centers were administered. Camp resident Jeanne Wakutsuki Houston rightly thought that they were comparable to American small towns. This chapter insists that the only proper definition of the centers should be based on historic standards of existence within the centers, instead of abstract or linguistic ones. Thus it discusses historic concentration camps in the Cuban Revolution of the 1890s (where the term originated), the Boer War, the Philippine Insurrection (1899-1902), and finally the World War II camps of the Japanese Army. No American relocation center was even remotely comparable to these. The term “relocation centers” is consistent with the WRA name, and it distinguishes their centers from those run by the Justice Department. This misuse of the term “internment camp” confuses the two. During the Tolan Hearings at least five different kinds of confinement were discussed, all but one of which would have been highly exploitative. Fortunately the government chose the most humane, as a systematic comparison of the alternatives indicates. The condition in the historic ones listed in the preceding paragraph were horrible, and those in the Philippines quite bad.