Today, we discussed the reading you received yesterday about the Irish in Toronto. I explained how stereotypes, such as "the Irish are lazy," actually come from the way people are often treated (no one gave them jobs, based on their accent, because they assumed these Irish were Catholic and they were still grouchy with the French). I also brought up on about the Chinese from Chong's speech (people thought they were odd because they were not family oriented... somehow forgetting that the government made it almost impossible for the Chinese to get their families over due to high head taxes and then bans of immigration).
We then talked about Japanese internment in WWII and Ukrainian internment in WWI.I then gave you the article "Internment of Ukrainians in Canada 1914-1920." If you were not here, you can google this reading by title (on InfoUkes). You are to have this read actively, including a three sentence summary, and submitted for tomorrow's class.
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