Wartime Discrimination in Canada

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Discrimination was present everywhere during wartime. Already racist thoughts in people’s heads were heightened and, due to their ignorance, they treated people of certain ethnicities as enemies. Nobody was safe, even under the law, as it was used against them in the War Measures Act. The most significant example being the Japanese, whose government treated them as enemies, relocated them away from the coast and sold their property. Additionally, Germans were stereotyped to all be Nazi’s and the Jews were ignored during their time of need. Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do to right these past wrongs, only to learn not to make the same mistakes as our ancestors. The best way to learn is to teach so we should teach the next generation not to define people by their skin colour.

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