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Originally Posted by Day Tripper
The following line of logic has always seemed silly to me...we'll use the Japanese for example.
We are in a war against the Japanese...their government attacked us, so they're obviously bad. Since the Japanese government is bad, anyone of Japanese descent is bad and must be put in internment camps because they might be spies!
Interesting that Americans and Canadians of German descent weren't locked away during WWII. I imagine it's because they're not a visible minority, or even a minority at all.
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I was asking if we'd moved beyond it, I wasn't putting it forward as a valid idea
With that said, the German Canadians were, for the most part, a few generations old here. In contrast, there were few Japanese here before WWI, so the bulk of Japanese were first generation Japenese and seen as more likely to subvert to the enemy (Japan). The same type of argument is made by people today WRT the Russians and Chinese, though we've had a decent number of both for a while, so I don't really follow the logic in that line of thinking...