Canada and the World
Current Events with a Canadian Perspective
Last update
06 January 2012
Racism
Inuit are among Aboriginal Canadians
who have been gravely used and abused
African Pygmy Ota Benga in Zoo Exhibit
Captured African was put on display at the
1904 World's Fair for the amusement of the public
America’s Southern Conservatives
Seeing the northern part of the United States as
too liberal for their tastes, southern conservatives band together to campaign for dissolution of the Union
Black Woman Arrested for Sitting
in White Section of a Nova Scotia Theatre
Nova Scotia confronts its racist past
by apologizing to Viola Desmond who was jailed
because she refused to submit to discrimination
Canada’s Racist History of anti-
Ottawa encouraged Chinese men to come to Canada to
build the Canadian Pacific Railway, but when the
work was finished they were no longer welcome
The most common definition of racism is that it is a belief that all members of one race are superior
or inferior to all members of other races, but most experts believe we need a better definition of “race”
East Indian Migrants Turned away from Canada
The Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver Harbour
in May 1914; most of the 376 East Indian
passengers were never allowed to leave the ship
Europe’s Anti-
A small but growing minority of Europeans is
voicing opposition to immigrants,
particularly Muslim ones, at the ballot box
History of Chinese Immigration to Canada
For many decades Canada worked hard to keep
Chinese people from settling permanently in the country
Medical Syphilis Experiment on Black Americans
Black men in an Alabama study were denied treatment for syphilis to study the progression of the disease
Protocols of the Elders of Zion a Work of Fiction
Countless people believe there is a
Jewish and Masonic plot to control the world;
there is absolutely no truth to the story
Sometimes called gypsies, romani people
are shunned almost everywhere they live
Searching for a Scientific Explanation of Race
The “science” of eugenics was an attempt to explain why there appeared to be differences among races; after eight decades it was exposed as junk science
A project recorded ex-
horrible conditions of their lives in the American South
Taking Charles Darwin’s views on evolution as his
starting point, Herbert Spencer applied the
theory to philosophy, psychology, and the study
of society; he called it his “synthetic philosophy”
Anti-
in the 1930s and led to a ship full of
Jewish refugees being turned away