ENGLISH 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Angus Macinnes, Escott Reid, Japanese Canadians
17 Apr 2016
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Passbooks japanese canadians had to carry them around. Similar to passbooks used in apartheid and ids aboriginal canadians used to carry. Here we see ciizenship is deined by race. Those of japanese origins were deemed as enemy aliens (even if you were nisei) They spoke of the japanese canadians in the way that the nazis would have spoken about jewish germans. When they spoke, i felt in that commitee room, the physical presence of evil. escot reid. It shows that there was a moral barometer/voice of reason. I see no reason why we should deal with the populaion of japanese origin among us any diferently from the way in which we deal with those of german and italian extracion. If we deal with them diferently and we have done so we do it an account of racial prejudice. angus macinnes. They do not belong here, and here, and there is only one soluion to the problem.
