二战中,日本袭击珍珠港时,美国社会出现了一股普遍的“排日”的情绪。而当时美国有一小批“东洋五毛”和“东洋自干五”,这些美国日裔在两国敌对时的“吃饭砸锅”行为,加深了美国人的反感和警惕;在美国当时的种族主义的促成下,最终导致了日裔集中营悲剧,祸及美国和加拿大的大部分日裔。希望这种悲剧将来不会在另一个族裔头上重演。
人类在进入大同世界之前,族裔偏见和矛盾将会长期存在。
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看看加拿大的拘留营是如何对待乌克兰移民的。曾经在班夫看到过那座雕塑。
Castle Mountain Internment Camp
Internment[edit]
Designated enemy aliens under Canada's 1914
War Measures Act, some 8,579 enemy aliens were interned during
World War I as
prisoners of war. Ostensibly nationals of countries at war with Canada, the vast majority however were settler immigrants, primarily of
Ukrainian ethnic origin. The Castle Camp, which was built in 1915 at the base of
Castle Mountain was a Canadian internment camp which held immigrant prisoners of Ukrainian,
Austrian,
Hungarian and German descent.
[2]
Despite their civilian status, a great many were sent to prisoner of war camps located in the Canadian hinterland, to be used as military
conscript labour on government work projects.
[3] Of particular note was the use of forced labour in Canada's
national parks, where they were introduced there as a matter of policy to improve existing facilities and increase accessibility by developing the park system's infrastructure.
[4] By 1915 several internment camps in and around the Rocky Mountains were in full operation, including a camp at the foot of Castle Mountain, the terminal point of the then uncompleted
Banff-Laggan (
Lake Louise) road.
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