“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. » This is what the American author Rita Mae Brown once said. People can always revisit something that happened in the past, but humans tend not to think twice about what they do in the present. Throughout history, people have gained perspective through experience, so is it fair to blame others without understanding their reasoning? The majority of people believe that the internment of Japanese Canadians was unjustified, but if they were British Canadians during World War II, would they still have the same thoughts as they do today? The internment of Japanese Canadians prevented violent discrimination by Canadian citizens, helped strengthen Canada as a nation, and also saved thousands of lives. Although many human rights were violated, the internment of the Japanese benefited Canada over time. Japanese Canadians faced discrimination whether they were interned or not. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, racism against Japanese Canadians was not something new. Japanese Canadians “had defined their communities since the arrival of the first immigrants in the 1870s.” An Anti-Asian League was formed in Canada in 1807; it was the source of much of the hostility toward Japanese Canadians. The league was created to limit the number of passports distributed and prevent them from working in areas of B.C. Another group, the White Canada Association, is “dedicated to combating the ‘evils’ of the Asian presence in British Columbia.” During the 1935 federal election, both the Liberal and Conservative parties waged smear campaigns against the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, now known as the New Democratic Party, condemning the...... middle of paper .... ..panese Canadians interned during World War II. Dalhousie University, 20-21.[4] Ann G. Sunahara, The Politics of Racism: The Uprooting of Japanese Canadians in the Second World War (Toronto: James Lorimer & Co., 1981), 161.[5] Sunahara, 10[6] Fujiwara, Aya. “Japanese-Canadian Displaced Persons: Labor Relations and Ethno-Religious Identity in Southern Alberta, 1942-1953.” Page 65[7] http://www.japanesecanadienhistory.net/samples_secondary.htm[8] http://www.japanesecanadianhistory.net/timeline2/timeline2b.htm[9] http://www.history.com/topics /bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki[10] http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/72.pdf[11] http://www.deathcamps.info/[12] http http://www.stripes.com/military-life/taiwan-horrors-of-japanese-pow-camps-revealed-to-visitors-at-kinkaseki-1.218978[13] http://library.thinkquest.org/ 26074 /pages/japan.htm