Research Paper on:
Hybridized Identity and Canada's Little Tolerance

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to harshly dissuade any hybrid Japanese residents from becoming spies. These tactics, considered to be over-reactive at best and downright inhumane at worst, included the complete and utter downgrade  of a once-participatory and mainstreamed population by forcing Japanese Canadians to forfeit their property, and, after being deprive of liberty, the men "were impressed into forced labor and the women  and children transported to ghost towns and abandoned mining camps in the interior of the country to fend for themselves" (Milton 8). The disturbing sting of this sudden intolerance  for an individuals hybrid identity has lasted long after the initial reason for its original existence, rendering Canada yet another in a long list of countries where the melting pot  of multiculturalism has become an unwelcome entity, an element of modernity painfully portrayed in Wayson Choys Jade Peony and Joy Kogawas Obasan. "...Since there is no evidence that Japanese  Canadians were more inclined to treason than Canadians of German or Italian or, for that matter, any other derivation, and since discrimination against them continued for years after the war,  one may be forgiven for suspecting that they were the victims of racism" (Milton 8). II. ARBITRARY INTOLERANCE Choy and Kogawa express the pain and suffering forced upon the  Japanese Canadians after a political panic swept through post-Pearl Harbor. Their experiences, while separate in literary content, are formulated from a common denominator of disbelief and anger toward such  a "national exercise in pernicious lunacy" (Milton 8) at a time when the entire world appeared to be skidding out of control. That Japanese Canadians were ousted from the  lives they had built upon a foundation of cultural trust and respect for fear they would otherwise turncoat and commit treason clearly illustrates the level of unmitigated panic that swelled