The Pros And Cons Of Internment Camps

The horrors of Internment camps had become a reality to many Japanese-Canadians in World War Two, along with the racism and ill treatment the Issei [first generation Japanese-Canadians] and Nisei [second-generation Japanese-Canadians] had faced. The idea of this discrimination ending with the end of the war was farfetched. In fact, many are still trying to build and expand their identity today. Life indeed became different to Japanese-Canadians as how they had known it before World War Two, and this had a big impact for the generations that came in the following years. Having to move out of British Columbia after World War Two, Japanese communities within the province were broken and spread apart. The outcome for these families who had to move was to live within white-dominated communities. By doing so, the Japanese-Canadian community had very negative impacts. Because many of the communities the Japanese- Canadians moved to had very few of their decent, …show more content…
The practice of English/French culture was more predominant with interracial kids than the Japanese culture. Again, this meant that later generations would not be passed down the extent of Japanese culture and education many of the Issei and Nisei had. The breakup of Japanese-Canadian communities was seen controversial, for, it was a way to “ethnically purify” the French/English Canada that the government could have potentially wanted. Racism was still alive at the heart of Canada, and this did not help the families who were a minority to these new communities. They faced many offensive slurs, and children had to bare through it, leading to psychological troubles such as anxiety, depression, insecurities of their own skin, and many more things that differentiated their way of thinking and acting upon the following years. Another hardship Japanese-Canadians faced was through work and economical