How Did Canada Use Propaganda During Ww2

After 40 years of ignoring the issue, the Canadian Government has apologized to the Japanese Canadians for the discrimination they faced during World War Two at last.

The core of the Japanese experience in Canada lies in the shameful and almost undemocratic suspension of human rights that the Canadian government committed during World War II. As a result, thousands of Japanese were uprooted to be imprisoned in internment camps miles away from their homes. While only a small percentage of the Japanese living in Canada were actually nationals of Japan, those who were Canadian born were, without any concrete evidence, continuously being associated with a country that was nothing but foreign to them. Branded as “enemy aliens”, the Japanese Canadians soon came to the realization that their beloved nation harboured so much hate and anti-Asian sentiments that Canada was becoming just as foreign to them as

Canada is presently known for welcoming many racial groups into the country. However, the Canadian government is not always giving out warm welcomes to different ethnicities. During World War Two, the country rejects many Japanese and Italians who are already Canadian. The treatment of the Japanese and Italians in the Second World War is very unjust. The two groups face being put into internment camps against their own will, the government separates families and force men to work on farms with little pay. The government of Canada also mistreat the Japanese and Italian Canadians because they are full of fear and superstition.

At the start of the war the use of recruitment propaganda was quite minimal. However, over time when people started to realise the devastation and death toll of the war, less people volunteered. Therefore, the government increased the amount of propaganda by hanging more posters, publishing newspapers and more, in the effort to increase their chances in defeating the Ottoman Empire. The government used methods of manipulation in their posters such as targeting people’s sense of patriotism, guilt, mate ship as well using atrocity propaganda and women to advertise their campaign. For example in the poster ‘it is nice in the surf but what about the men in the trenches’, evidently shows how the government tries to make men feel a sense of guilt

As a nation, Canada is known to the rest of the world for being thoughtful, polite, and generally very accepting of all ethnicities and people. However, the treatment of Canada’s Indigenous population, Japanese Canadians, African American and Indigenous slaves seems to suggest otherwise. Canada's dark past may not be talked about often, but there are three main events that targeted specific ethnic groups which still affect those people today. Residential Schools led to major negative cultural consequences, as well as psychological and sociological effects. Japanese-Canadian Internment Camps were used to strip Japanese Canadians of their rights because of the World War II bombing of Pearl Harbor. And finally, for two centuries slavery was legal in New France, and in Lower Canada under British rule. Human beings were being held captive and were owned by many people, including governors, bishops, military officers, priests, and blacksmiths. All of these terrible consequences can be accredited to Canada’s imperialistic policies.

December 7th, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Army successfully pulled of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. After this attack the government of Canada used the war measures act to remove all Japanese Canadian citizens that live 160km from the Pacific Coast and put them in internment camps until 1949, four years after WW2. Fast Forward to 1988 and the Canadian government gives an apology to the Japanese, however the apology was for more than just Japanese Internment it was for the pain and suffering, discrimination, and for leaving Japanese citizens with nothing.

With the belief that they were superior in patriotism, many people alienated minorities during World War II. In terms of the military ranking and task, many minorities were restricted. Many Chinese Canadians were not accepted into the air force or navy. The Japanese Canadians were considered “enemies” and were subjected to many hate crimes during the given time. They were also often turned down when applying for a position in the Canadian armed forces, and deemed unfit. This was highly based on a perspective of generalization and prejudice. Additionally, racism played a part in the

Have you ever heard that Canadians are the nicest people? It turns out, this wasn’t always true. In the late 1800’s a lot of European immigrants came to Canada seeking land, freedom, and pardon from their military service. In 1914, the first camp was opened. Canadians believed that central Europeans were a threat to their security. “After the outbreak of war, many civilians with links to Germany, Turkey and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (including Ukraine and other parts of central Europe) were arrested and vetted as possible threats to Canadian security” (1). The Canadians are similar to the Americans because the Americans treated the Japanese-Americans like they were dangerous no matter who they were just because they looked like the

During the Internment of Japanese Canadians, people were treated differently in society due to their ethnic background. Firstly, it is shown/demonstarted by the actions of Prime Minister William Lyon along with, Mackenzie King who had ordered to detain/take away people's young and innocent lives from their homes and take them to Hastings Park. Leaving, the Japanese Canadians clueless , with no explanation to what is being happened. As a result of that , the governments used the “War Measure Act” to be allowed to remove them from their “own property,farms, business” (Marsh, 2012)and also forced “more than 8,000” (Marsh, 2012) Japanese Canadians through Hastings Park “where women and children were housed in the Livestock Buildings”. On the

During the beginning of WWII, there were a lot of Japanese Canadians living in Canada, all of which were either second-generation Canadians, Japanese people who had taken Canadian citizenship or those who were still Japanese nationals. These Japanese Canadians mainly inhabited British Columbia and smaller villages in the coastal regions of the west coast. Prior to their internment, Japanese Canadians suffered great prejudice, discrimination and racism. White people were fearful that they would lose their dominance due to competition in industries such as fishing, farming, markets and even in education. The Canadian Government created laws stating that Japanese Canadians were not allowed to vote, they also had fishing and farming permits denied, which were supposed to motivate them to move back to Japan. On top of that, White people also feared that Japan would attempt to expand into Canada and take it’s natural resources due to Japan’s expansionist policies that existed at the time. On December 7th, 1941, Japanese Air Forces attacked the US forces at Pearl Harbor, pulling the US into the second world war. On the same day, 50,000 Japanese troops attacked Hong Kong, which was a British Colony at the time. After events the events at Pearl Harbour, anyone living in Canada of Japanese immigration or descent would be considered an “enemy alien”. Around this time, Japan also launched attacks on the Philippines and Malaya, the victories in these

The Psychological impacts put upon the Japanese-Canadians, weren’t just the horrible experiences, or the separation of family and friends. Rather the impact due to the discrimination of the Japanese-Canadians by the government and the rest of society had a deeper impact. The hatred of the Japanese-Canadians by the Government and the people had an Enormous impact on the people’s well being, and the way they viewed themselves. The government after the relocation sold most of the properties and confiscated possessions of the Japanese-Canadians. They also took out all of the Japanese Newspapers, restricted Telephone and mail Services, thus Preventing Communication. Furthermore, the media was full of “Anti-Japanese-Canadian Rhetoric.” Finally the Greatest hatred against came from not the media, nor the government, but the people around them. Sent to remote and deserted areas, or work/concentration camps,

Subsequent to the unexpected Japanese invasion of Hong Kong and Malaya and attack on Pearl Harbor, Canada declared war on Japan during the second World War. As racism was still present during the 1940s, the Canadian government placed Japanese-Canadians in internment camps simply due to “suspicion.” These Canadian citizens stripped of their human rights and relocated, placed under government-enforced curfews as well as interrogations, and were deprived of their job and properties. The tastefully worded novel Obasan, written by a fellow interned Japanese-Canadian speaks briefly on the history of Japanese internment camps, but heavily on the traumatic effects on those who were a part of that history. The aftermath of Japan’s entry into World

Often times, we are blinded with the illusion on how Canada is a perfect country with no wrongdoings, when the truth is, we are just as bad as any other country on the topic of racism. The wrongdoings and crimes against the Japanese- Canadians in Canada are one of those examples. Although we do learn about them briefly in school, Obasan gives a new perspective on how a Japanese Canadian received this treatment for non-Japanese Canadians in their time and her perspective on it. We learn of her and her family's hardships that they had to face after the bombing of Pearl Harbour, in one part, one of her aunts even says “ The American Japanese were interned as we were in Canada, and sent off to concentration camps, but their property wasn't liquidated as ours was.” and “ We've never recovered from the dispersal policy.

More than any other wars, the Cold War was fought with words, mainly through the media as psychological warfare. Popular culture was used as a decoy to sway the opinions of the general public in support of various governmental institutions. In East Germany, political propaganda was frequently incorporated into film, journalism, and the mass media to promote socialism. East Germany was a close ally to the Soviet Union who fought to keep western influences and capitalism out of their culture. To do so, films and newspapers idealized socialism and steered clear of capitalistic ideologies. In 1961 a permanent blockade was built as an “iron curtain” to keep East Germany completely

The diseases… the twisting of our souls… death would be the easiest to bear.” Wrote writer, mother, and survivor of the Japanese Internment camps Muriel Ktagwa. The dark past of World War 1 still haunts the souls of Canadian citizens with Japanese ancestry. After the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941 and later encounters with the Japanese military, the Canadian government based a prejudiced decision based on fear. Generalizing the whole population of Canadian individuals with Japanese descendent they were rallied up and put into internment camps across BC. Because the government assumed that they were spies even though one third of the population were born and raised in Canada, and the other, their grandparents who had no connection to their native country. Violently taken from their homes, their prized possessions, businesses, and houses were now the government’s propriety, therefore they were sold less than their true value. At the internment camps citizens endured difficult conditions as they were used as cheap labour and put into brutal work environments. This experience demoted their quality of life as they were forced to face criticism and injustice for their whole lives and when they were released in 1945 everything was gone and they were forced to start from the beginning as they lost