Prejudice and Personality

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  • Egregious stereotyping (positive or negative) of a culture, group or person (beyond outdated language), especially vulnerable individual(s)/group(s).

Prejudice and Personality

Description

Title Proper Prejudice and Personality
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1941
General material designation
From this item, LOI has digitized one textual record or image.
Scope and content
This newspaper article was published by The New Canadian newspaper on December 25, 1941. The article discusses many stereotypes present in the Canadian landscape including that of the Japanese Canadians. The article was written from a local Vancouver Nissei, Cami Omori, discussing her experience dealing with prejudice against Japanese Canadians.
Name of creator
BC Archives collected this archive or newspapers created by Japanese Canadians before, during, and after World War II.
Immediate source of acquisition
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.
This record was digitized selectively.

Structure

Repository British Columbia Archives
Fonds The New Canadian
Series NC 1941
File December

Metadata

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Prejudice and Personality
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Terminology

Readers of these historical materials will encounter derogatory references to Japanese Canadians and euphemisms used to obscure the intent and impacts of the internment and dispossession. While these are important realities of the history, the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective urges users to carefully consider their own terminological choices in writing and speaking about this topic today as we confront past injustice. See our statement on terminology, and related sources here.