Anti-Asian Discrimination
Anti-Asian Discrimination
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- The COVID-19 Pandemic appears to have started in China. Overt Anti-Asian discrimination has been on the rise since it began.
W5: Anti-Asian racism spreads during the COVID-19 pandemic
W5: Anti-Asian racism spreads during the COVID-19 pandemic
W5 investigates the racism and challenges many Asian-Canadians have had to face since the start of the pandemic and what advocates say needs to change.
More than 1,100 attacks on Asian-Canadians since pandemic began, survey finds
More than 1,100 attacks on Asian-Canadians since pandemic began, survey finds
Asian-Canadians reported 1,150 cases of racist attacks between March 10, 2020 and Feb. 28, 2021, according to data compiled by the Chinese Canadian National Council. Justin Kong, co-author of the report, says many of the incidents involved blaming Asians for COVID-19.
Q: Why do you think socio-political events such as pandemics and war stir feelings of racism and discrimination? Consider or discuss.
Q: Why do you think socio-political events such as pandemics and war stir feelings of racism and discrimination? Consider or discuss.
Q: How can you as an educational leader or teacher combat this in the schools and educational institutions you where you work?
Q: How can you as an educational leader or teacher combat this in the schools and educational institutions you where you work?
An Immigration Story: Tan Le
An Immigration Story: Tan Le
"In 2010, technologist Tan Le took the TEDGlobal stage to demo a powerful new interface. But now, at TEDxWomen, she tells a very personal story: the story of her family -- mother, grandmother and sister -- fleeing Vietnam and building a new life."
Q: What have you learned from Tan Le's immigration story?
Q: How might you treat immigrants differently now?
Q: If you are an immigrant, what has your experience been?
Anti-Asian sentiments are not new: Japanese Internment Camps
Anti-Asian sentiments are not new: Japanese Internment Camps
Japanese Canadians have experienced their own versions of racism since first arriving in Canada. During World War II, a systemic effort was made by the Canadian Government to take extreme "precautions" and put all Japanese Canadians (foreign and Canadian born) into internment camps. For more information, check out the exhibit and links below.
RBCM@Home: Exploring the Broken Promises Exhibit
Broken Promises focusses on the dispossession of property owned by Japanese Canadians and will travel to the Royal BC Museum in 2022.RBCM@Home: Exploring the Broken Promises Exhibit
Dr. Yasmin Amaratunga Railton, co-curator of the Broken Promises exhibit will talk about how the exhibit is told from the perspective of seven Japanese Canadian narrators and how the government policies of dispossession affected all generations of their families.
Dr. Yasmin Amaratunga Railton, co-curator of the Broken Promises exhibit will talk about how the exhibit is told from the perspective of seven Japanese Canadian narrators and how the government policies of dispossession affected all generations of their families.
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ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS: THE DISPOSSESSION OF JAPANESE CANADIANS
Japanese Canadian Internment | Narrated by David Suzuki, Dec 7, 2016
Japanese Canadian Internment | Narrated by David Suzuki, Dec 7, 2016
To remember the 75th Anniversary of Japanese Canadian Internment during the Second World War, Legion Magazine and David Suzuki tell the story of the injustices and atrocities done towards Japanese-Canadians across the country, and in particular, British Columbia. Visit www.legionmagazine.com for more information.
Nikkei Stories - Internment, Jul 30, 2015
Nikkei Stories - Internment, Jul 30, 2015
During WW II, twenty-two thousand Japanese Canadians were uprooted from the coast and sent to internment camps. Their homes, businesses and personal belongings were confiscated, and four thousand were deported to Japan.
Narrating True History: Japanese Canadians in 1942
Narrating True History: Japanese Canadians in 1942
ACAM Community Member Mary Kitagawa shares her experience of growing up during the Japanese Canadian incarceration when the federal government removed 22,000 Japanese Canadians from B.C. in 1942 and relocated them inland. She also discusses her journey of leading the campaign for UBC to award honorary degrees to the 76 Japanese Canadian students affected by internment.
Japanese Canadians being relocated to Camps in the interior of B.C., circa 1942 to 46. (B.C. Securities Commission / Library and Archives Canada)
Chinese Head Tax
Chinese Head Tax
Canadian Apartheid: Chinese Head Tax and racism's legacy, Mar 24, 2018
Canadian Apartheid: Chinese Head Tax and racism's legacy, Mar 24, 2018
An uncomfortable history of racism in British Columbia and Canada needs to be confronted if we are to truly grasp the way our past has shaped us, and to move past prejudices.
Force 136: Chinese Canadian Heroes, Nov 10, 2017
Force 136: Chinese Canadian Heroes, Nov 10, 2017
In 1944, approx. 150 Chinese Canadians were recruited and dropped behind Japanese enemy lines. We meet the surviving soldiers to hear how they fought for our country even while they were denied the full rights of Canadian citizens.
Top Image: Feeding Baby, batik on cloth (detail), circa 1994, by Datuk Chuah Thean Teng, Penang, http://www.theedgegalerie.com/news/2013/12/homage-batik-painting
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