Essay On Japanese Internment In Canada

Canada has a history of mistreating minority groups and one prime example is Japanese internment, Japanese Canadians were feared and judged not only due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japanese but also just right out racism. Racism towards Asians also known as ‘yellow peril’ was very evidently the remote cause of Japanese interment while the bombing at Pearl Harbor became the immediate cause. Japanese Canadians were treated differently; people were jealous of their success, they were judged not upon their action but upon their heritage/background. Finally,when the Canadian Japanese were free to go they didn’t get an apology or any compensation for years later. The Japanese Canadian were discriminated against because they were different from

Issei (first generation Japanese) who had lives already started in Canada such as homes, business, careers and family. Were left nothing to return to, Canada had sold their business and homes already. The government didn’t want to let the Japanese out of the internment camp when it was announce interment was over, they wanted to deport them to Japan because they felt guilty about the Japanese not being able to return to the way their lives were before, because they had sold their homes and businesses already. Although some did willingly move back to Japan because Canada had left them with a bitter memory while other stayed in Canada. Either way the Japanese had to start over look for a new home as well as a job and in some cases start a whole new family because they lost theirs in internment. Not to mention Nisei (born and raised in Canada) they were pulled from their normal everyday lives, removed from school, isolated from friends and eventually separated from their family members. Some lost their parents, siblings, and they lost the people they very deeply cared for and in some cases weren’t able to receive any closer as the evidence of their family member’s exsistance had