Introduction
Canada is thought of as a peaceful nation who does not inflict ill intentions on others, we let almost everyone into our country, we are accepting and we do not start confrontation. It is equivalent to that one person who is friends with everyone. This is the image that is conjured when the outside world pictures Canada. But just like people, not every individual is purely good and therefore not every country is either. Canada has committed torturous acts against different cultures and their own people. Torture before the mid-18th century had been geared towards physical acts of violence while torture past that point has been geared towards psychological acts of violence. The latter use has been hard for society to come to terms with. This paper will describe how Canada used residential schools and segregation as a means of torture. First it will give a general background of the use of torture in Europe, secondly it will define torture differentiating it from abuse, thirdly it will discuss torture as punishment with the example of segregation, and lastly it will discuss the use of torture in regards to political re-education using the example of residential schools.
History of Torture
In general the severity of torture has varied, transforming with each passing period of time, but essentially settling back into its original state. Next year Canada with be 150 …show more content…
Dickens visited the Eastern State Penitentiary to visit inmates, and that visit included prisoners within segregation, in his book he wrote,
“I hold these slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain, to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body; and because its ghastly signs and tokens are not so palpable to the eye and the sense of touch as scars upon the flesh; because its wounds are not upon the surface, and it extorts few cries that human ears can hear; therefore I the more denounce
Canada is thought of as a peaceful nation who does not inflict ill intentions on others, we let almost everyone into our country, we are accepting and we do not start confrontation. It is equivalent to that one person who is friends with everyone. This is the image that is conjured when the outside world pictures Canada. But just like people, not every individual is purely good and therefore not every country is either. Canada has committed torturous acts against different cultures and their own people. Torture before the mid-18th century had been geared towards physical acts of violence while torture past that point has been geared towards psychological acts of violence. The latter use has been hard for society to come to terms with. This paper will describe how Canada used residential schools and segregation as a means of torture. First it will give a general background of the use of torture in Europe, secondly it will define torture differentiating it from abuse, thirdly it will discuss torture as punishment with the example of segregation, and lastly it will discuss the use of torture in regards to political re-education using the example of residential schools.
History of Torture
In general the severity of torture has varied, transforming with each passing period of time, but essentially settling back into its original state. Next year Canada with be 150 …show more content…
Dickens visited the Eastern State Penitentiary to visit inmates, and that visit included prisoners within segregation, in his book he wrote,
“I hold these slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain, to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body; and because its ghastly signs and tokens are not so palpable to the eye and the sense of touch as scars upon the flesh; because its wounds are not upon the surface, and it extorts few cries that human ears can hear; therefore I the more denounce