Example Of Ethnic Cleansing

Considering the Historical Thinking concept of Change and Continuity the events of the Holocaust connect to several other examples of ethnic cleansing we have studied during our History class. Over the course of history, the harm done to threatening nations has stayed the same, but the intensity of that has changed. Since the beginning of time countries have committed genocides to wash away the cultures that were stronger or bigger, but mainly better. In the days of the Bible, even the Egyptians felt threatened by the Israelites and put them into slavery. You see the Israelites were growing and had an uprise in population, the slavery was only to withdraw them from their greatest capacity. Though this example was not discussed with over the course of this …show more content…
Both have stayed the same in the way of fear causing the ethnic cleansing. I think the Canadian Government felt threatened by aboriginals because they knew all about the environment and very resourceful. In addition, Canada couldn't understand the Aboriginals and couldn't tell if they were for them or against them so they put them into residential schools to control the Aboriginals and not use their resourcefulness to their advantage instead be the bums of the Canadian society. The thing that has changed with reference to ways of life, political policies, and economic practices, with the residential schools and the Holocaust, are quite different. The German way of life and the Canadian way of life are very different. The Germans are much more ruthless and headstrong while Canadians have the reputation of being peaceful, yet they both lied to their societies saying the Jews deserved the camps and the Aboriginals needed the schools. In the political practices, Canada is a democracy while Germany has an authoritarian, which is federalized by the dictator. This obviously makes a substantial difference as Hitler had the full control whereas the people in Canada has control. This made the cultural