Syrian Refugees; Why Canada Should Accept Them
The sympathetic nervous system controls a function in your body known as the fight or flight response; associated with seeing a bear or being scared by a friend, the response then, within milliseconds, decides, whether or not to stay and fight, or run and escape the danger. We can see this on a global scale through current events today; imagine a place where democracy was stripped from one's hands, the government responded to peaceful protests with open firing and forcing millions out of their homes, would one's natural instinct be fight or flight? This is the complicated reality that many Syrians face, as they experience these tragedies in their civil war. Syrians who decide to flee rather than stay have unfortunately been extremely limited in their escape as many areas have restricted the number of refugees they will accept. The crisis calls upon great nations such as Canada to comfort the …show more content…
However, this has not always been the case for Canada; during World War II, when Hitler was slaughtering Jewish people in the Holocaust. Canada, accepted little to no refugees, in fear of an invasion from Germany. This resulted in the death of approximately six million Jewish people. Shame fell on Canadian’s shoulders as we would later realize that had we accepted refugees, we could have saved the lives of millions. Fast forward 70 years, and schools discuss this event as a dark time in Canadian history. As many have said, history repeats itself, and today Canada is facing a similar decision in whether or not to accept Syrian refugees and again, help millions of people. By declining the refugees, Canada enters a period in which will once again be possibly discussed as a dark time in history, where not only were we not kind and compassionate, but were naive and negligent to our past