History 30 Research Paper

History 30: Is it Actually Important I think this class benefits students in a ton of ways. We are the society’s future and I think it’s important to know Canada’s successes and failures so we know what to do and what not to do. My generation and generations to follow need to know the past of Canada so the future can be even better. I think it’s important to know what to do and what not to do when it comes to approaching people who are different then us. We need the knowledge of the Beothuk so another group of people will not be killed off because of our differences. We need to be a generation who are more thankful and we won’t be until we know about the history we take for granted like Medicare. We need to become detectives and understand …show more content…
I think it’s important to learn so we don’t do it again. We learn about the mistreatment of Japanese who in world war two how the ones who immigrated before world war 2 and resided in Canada were sent to camps because Canadians were worried these people who were from a different country were spies. It taught me to think about both sides of a situation before we make big changes like moving the Japanese to camps. Had someone talked to them would they had said they had even talked with people in Japan. There was no proof of them being spies yet the government assumed they were and made them move out of their homes. We watched the movie Rabbit Proof fence which was based in Australia so we could compare how the mixed race people were treated poorly just because they weren’t white and seen as uncivilized and needed to be taught the proper way of life. Watching the Rabbit Proof Fence taught me it wasn’t just Canada that treated people poorly. We also learned about learned about the aboriginals and how they were mistreated. Learning about the mistreatment of the Aboriginals taught me we need to be more open to understand a culture. We learn about the mistreatment of the aboriginal but History 30 teaches you in depth information about the aboriginal’s mistreatment. I think at least for me it opened my eyes to how cruel Canada was and how Canada’s …show more content…
Before this class I most likely would have believed anything I read in a textbook. I think I would have believed anything I learn on the video or another source that you would think is reliable. You need to dig deeper into what you are learning even in CBC videos we watched that you think would be very good, informative and a good source but it wasn’t because it only told half-truths and avoided all of the bad stuff or just skimmed over the negative stuff in Canada’s history. There is biased because they want to make Canada look good. I learned from the videos that they tried to focus more in Canada’s good side because it was Canadian made they don’t want to seem bad. They would rather show all the good thing Canada has done than the bad. See that's the thing history books and other history resources try focus on Canada's history but avoid any bad thing that has happened in the past. It’s not just Canada who want to look better the United States history also does it. We tend to try to make ourselves look better than we really are. It’s just how people are its human nature to try to make yourself or someone else or an event better than it was actually. History has been warped to benefit people so you need to do is dig deeper and research what you learned is it maybe half-truth what you learned might be hiding the negative aspects of it. I learned that I need to be more open to look into things because not everything you learn is