...quote by the Japanese Centennial Project to represent the mistreatment of the Japanese Canadians in Canada. Between the years 1941 and 1949, the Japanese people of Canada had their belongings taken, and were relocated to internment camps in the interior of British Columbia. Where they would be forced to stay for the entirety of the war. The human rights violations, hardships in the camps, and the redress that came too late made the Japanese Canadian internment a national disgrace. The internment began after the Japanese attack on Hong Kong and Pearl Harbour....
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...When Japan attacked Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941, it caused outrage and suspicion about Japanese Canadians residing in Canada. Although, they could have lived in Canada for many years and generations and even born here. As response to this suspicion, the Canadian government moved all Japanese Canadians and people of Japanese origins away from the West coast and into the interior of British Columbia. Around 20,000 men, women, and children were forced out of their homes and into these internment camps until the war was over. The government promised to keep their possessions and property safe but later sold off all of said property. This left the them without any place to call home and they now had to start from scratch. "It is the government’s...
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...Treatment of Japanese Canadians During WWII: An Atrocious Chapter in Canadian History In 1942, the middle of World War Two, Japanese Canadians in British Columbia were forced to enter internment camps. Many of them would remain there until the end of the war and following it would have to relocate in Canada or be deported to Japan. Years later, in 1988, the Canadian government would apologise for the terrible treatment that Japanese Canadians endured in this time. The actions of the government regarding Japanese Canadians during WWII were unnecessary and a social injustice. The internment of these people was unjust due to their treatment within and outside of the camps, no prevention of any harm, and its encouragement of racism in a time of fear. When the government enacted the War Measures Act, the 22,000 Japanese Canadians living on the West Coast were invited to move to “relocation centres” near the Okanagan...
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...Assessment Japanese-Canadian Internment Camps To What Extent did the Pearl Harbor Attacks affect Political Discrimination Against People of Japanese Descent in Canada? Mihir Thakkar Candidate Number: 000881-0043 May 2014 Word Count: 1,703 A. Plan of Investigation This investigation will measure to extent to which the Pearl Harbor attacks affected the political discrimination against people of Japanese descent in Canada, including the internment of Japanese-Canadians during World War II. This investigation will be carried out through analysis of various documents about the Japanese-Canadian internment. A variety of sources will be used, from books by victims of the internment to scholarly sources about the war between Canada and Japan. Two of the documents will then be thoroughly assessed, which will provide evidence to properly and reasonably answer the question. This date range of this study is from 1887 until the official government redress, which took place in the 1970s. The question will be answered through factual evidence of the internment, as well as narrative evidence describing other forms of political discrimination. B. Summary of Evidence Racism before Pearl Harbor • • Manzo Nagano, the first immigrant from Japan moved to Canada in 1877.1 In the 1920s, the Canadian Government limited the number of fishing licenses allowed for Japanese citizens.2 • In the Great Depression, the government of British Columbia denied logging licenses and the Japanese immigrants...
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...injustices that include internment of enemy aliens and intolerance against others based on their heritage. Dealing with these injustices proves to be extremely hard, as the response needs to be sensitive to those affected, and promptly address the factors involved in the injustice. Furthermore, throughout history, numerous injustices had occurred that governments of today have to face, especially for those that occurred within Canada. To be able to promptly and adequately...
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...Japanese internment camps were established in Canada and America in 1941, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Prime Minister Mackenzie King deemed it a necessary act to protect Canada. Japanese-Canadians were forcibly taken from their homes, instructed only to bring as much as you can carry. They were then taken to large empty buildings like abandoned factories and empty sports arenas. They were held there, similar to the ghettos used in Germany, to wait until they could be placed on a train and set to the internment camps. The internment camps were located in very isolated locations in Northern British Columbia. The camps were set up with shacks or tents for the Japanese inmates. There were no clothes provided for the inmates and meals...
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...horrifying things that the government did to the Japanese after the attacks of Pearl Harbor. To show the real history and the real events that government does not show in the history books. The Murray’s main purpose is to spread what happened to the all Japanese people during the World War II. She uses five other researchers and activist specialized in this topic, to support her argument and also to let the reader hear the opinion of other researchers. The author uses many of evidence to make her argument stronger...
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...Two main waves of Japanese immigration to Canada can be observed in the country’s history. Manzo Nagano, the first Japanese person to come to Canada, settled in Victoria in 1877. At the turn of the century, other Japanese people emigrated mainly from the islands of Kyushu and Honshu. The first generation or wave of Japanese immigrants, known as the Issei, migrated to the Fraser Valley and along the Pacific coastline. Others chose to settle in Alberta, in the cities and surrounding areas of Lethbridge and Edmonton. Those destinations were, however, less popular than the fishing villages, mining towns and logging camps of British Columbia. By 1914, there were 10,000 people of Japanese ancestry in Canada. By the end of the 1930s, a solid network...
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...in which geographic area of Canada? Ontario The Prairies Quebec British Columbia Correct Response Nova Scotia Question 2 0 / 1 point In the reading "Itsuka" by Joy Kogawa in Pens of Many Colours, what action taken by the Canadian government does the author describe? The decision to enter World War II Correct Answer The apology given in Parliament to Canadians of Japanese descent for sending them to internment camps during World War II. The adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Incorrect Response The apology given in Parliament to Canadians of Italian descent for sending them to internment camps during World War II. The passage of the Multiculturalism Act Question 3 1 / 1 point Which author in Pens of Many Colours wrote the poem "The Immigrants"? Lyse Champagne Correct Response Margaret Atwood Joy Mannette Denise Chong Helga Mills Question 4 1 / 1 point In the reading, "Breaking the Barriers" in Pens of Many Colours, Helga Mills tells the stories of which category of immigrants? Transnational migrants Only immigrants from Somalia Family class immigrants Correct Response Refugee women Female economic immigrants Question 5 1 / 1 point Joy Kogawa writes about which group of migrants to Canada? The Chinese The Dutch The Iranians The Koreans Correct Response The Japanese Question 6 0 / 1 point According...
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...In Joy Kogawa’s Obasan, Japanese people are treated unjustly because of the attack on Pearl Harbor, which was a way to get America involved in World War II. Naomi Nakane and her family struggles to live a normal life in Canada due to the unjustly circumstances. Her family was separated, her and her brother were bullied by white Canadians, and her uncle’s farm was taken from them. Canada was in a state of fear because they believe all Japanese people are the same. So their cowardice act in sending them into camps made them feel safe, when there was no real threat in the first place. Naomi and Stephen experienced bullying by white Canadians when going to school in Slocan. White Canadian boys were provoking Stephen to fight them and they you...
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...Following the prosperity of the 1920’s, an economic crisis struck Canada and the entire world: the Great Depression. For nearly a decade, poverty, unemployment, and droughts plagued the country with the government taking little action. Work camps and government relief were unable to sustain families or individuals, leading to the rise of radical ideas and changes. New political parties supporting communism and socialism was the start of new changes later implemented in Canada. During this period, many were fighting for equality and justice (the on-to Ottawa trek). Around the world, extremism was on the rise: fascism in Spain, Italy and Germany, and totalitarianism in Japan. Canadians volunteered to join the International Brigade to help during the...
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...1. What do you see as the author’s overall purpose in Farewell to Manzanar? The author’s overall purpose of Farewell to Manzanar was to explain that during World War II a place called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California, east of the Sierras. Manzanar is most widely known as the site of one of ten camps where over 110,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese American internees. One of the first families to arrive was the Wakatsukis, who were ordered to leave their fishing business in Long Beach and take with them only the belongings they could carry. For Jeanne Wakatsuki, a seven-year-old child, Manzanar became a way of life in which she struggled and adapted, observed and grew. For her father it was essentially the end of his life. At age thirty-seven, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls life at Manzanar through the eyes of the child she was. She tells of her fear, confusion, and bewilderment as well as the dignity and great resourcefulness of people in oppressive and demeaning circumstances. In April 1972, Jeanne and her family visited the ruins of Manzanar. She went because she wanted to find closure. Prior to her visit, she had doubts. She thought she imagined the whole thing because no one really heard or talked about it. She seldom talked about her experience with her family and friends. I suppose she wrote the book to educate us readers a time in United States...
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...Racism and Power A Formal Research Paper on Racism HSP-3UI-03 Jenna Yates 06/16/2014 -1- Introduction Over the generations, there have been horrific examples of racism around the globe. The holocaust, the slave trade and Apartheid in South Africa are all examples of appalling events throughout history that display racism. In addition to these extreme examples, racism exists on a smaller scale in peoples day to day lives. For example, there are people who face certain disadvantages, like being denied employment, denied an apartment or denied a friendship all because of their race. While there is definitely a movement to eradicate racist actions and beliefs, they still exist. Despite education and a history of horrible experiences with racism, it is still a huge issue in our culture and in our environment. This is so, because there is always a group who benefits from racism and it is hard to let this power and privileges go. Racism has been an effective tool for those in a position of power and privilege to maintain their status, income, recourses, the ability to make decisions, etc. Racism empowers some and disempowers others. Even though we have seen the down side of racism, it is something we continue to repeat from country to country and decade to decade because we know it works to maintain power. Despite all the advances society has seen in research, knowledge and technology, mankind has not been able to abolish racism. Therefore, in spite of our understanding...
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...colonies that settled or move to a new country, colony or a “new world”. This settlement was an important characteristic of colonialism in the 19th century. In the development of the course settler colonies especially European settlers affected the live of First Nations Women in Canada, in terms of their culture, lifestyle, family organization, and religion. European colonies devaluated native population with regulations like the Indian Act. DIFFICULT KNOWLEDGE Knowledge that often challenges the dominant ideology, which is difficult to accept and we reject it and its source, or we embrace it without a critical evaluation. DIASPORA Comes from the Greek term “diasperin”, Used to refer to any ethnic population forced or induced to leave their original homelands. Also people who leave their homelands to find work or search for asylum. An example of diaspora in the topics cover in the course is the high amount of Chinese population who came to Canada to work. They weren’t forced, rather they chose to start a new life in a new place. Also, during WWII, the boats of Jewish who came to Canada looking for asylum. This term have helped me gaining knowledge about the migration of different ethnic population to Canada during the 19th and 20th century. THERE IS NOTHING OBJECTIVE ABOUT OBJECIVITY Objectivity means to have a neutral position in a specific topic or issue. Been objective is not possible because any ideology or thought always have a defined side or position that contradicts other...
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...In Wayson Choy’s novel The Jade Peony, Meiying is a bright girl whose forbidden relationship with Kazuo is continually impeded by racism. Meiying attempts to maintain this relationship but since she isn’t capable of coming to an equilibrium, the Chinese and Japanese teen couple living in Vancouver is forced to break up. Throughout the duration of the Second World War, the Canadian-Japanese are strongly discriminated against by the Canadian-Chinese. The “tall”, “elegant”, and “smart” (238) babysitter of Sek Lung that everyone in has come to love, experiences unbelievable hardship. Meiying tragically dies at the end of Choy’s novel. Choy classifies Meiying as a bright, likable person, and someone who is filled with potential from Sek Lung’s...
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