#japanese immigration to canada

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Photographs from the ‘relocation camp’ for Japanese-Canadian internees in Schreiber, Ontario, with photos digitized and put up by Schreiber Public Library. I’ve posted about the Schreiber camp before, using extracts from a great article on the subject, but here’s a recap:  “Official removal of Japanese Canadians began in March of 1942....Two days later, about 100 “British subjects” were to board a train to go from Vancouver to Schreiber, Ontario. Of the roughly 100 men ordered to board the train, eighty-five refused. BCSC officials were unable to coax the men onto the train, and ended up incarcerating them in an “Immigration Shed.” These same officials told the imprisoned men that if they did not “divulge the names of the instigators” of the action they would be hauled before the courts, but no one was willing to inform on their compatriots. RCMP Commissioner S.T. Wood then asked for a blanket Order of Internment that would allow him to formally arrest and incarcerate the men. When a push failed, a shove would apparently do. These men would go on to become some of the first of what would eventually amount to over 800 Japanese Canadians who were interned for defying the forced labour and evacuation regime.

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By April, Dave Watanabe had already “established himself as spokesman” [at the Schreiber camp. He is visible in the second photo, second from left, middle row, identified as ‘Butch’ Watanabe] At a meeting with Graham Pipher, a British Columbia Security Commission [BCSC] apparatchik, Watanabe demanded the workers’ “rights as Canadian citizens,” mainly regarding access to the nearby town of Schreiber. The evacuees stated that their “volunteering” to work in Ontario should have earned them these promised minor freedoms. Although not described as a job action, Pipher noted that sixty people attended this “meeting” to discuss grievances when they should have been working. Building on an earlier slowdown campaign, when the workers got word that the state was to restrict their movement, they brought their working pace to a crawl and threatened to strike.

Pipher commented that any restriction “on free movement etc.” would cause unrest to become “accentuated” and that he would lose control of the camp. The central administration pondered the imposition of stricter discipline, but the notion was junked well before implementation. From the start, the camps were not jail-cum-work-camps, and the incarcerated workers had much more latitude than the authorities had intended. As the camp was “small” and lacking in guards the Japanese enjoyed relatively free mobility. The “Japs at this camp [quickly] found favour with the majority of the citizens of Schreiber,” and before long they were patronizing “local’s stores and places of amusement,” without “any adverse criticism” from the townsfolk. It was of concern to T.S. Mills, the chief engineer on the project, that the men had access to the town and the telegraph office, and had the audacity to send uncensored messages directly to their families in British Columbia.

[CW Warning: Racial slurs] Mills related the story of a local railroad man’s daughter, who inquired of her father whether it was acceptable to dance with the Japanese. The railroader told his daughter that “as long as the Jap was sober and conducted himself properly, he would sooner she dance with a Jap than a Dago.” The railroader’s comment sheds some light on the process of racialization that was unfolding, solidifying, and mutating during the Second World War, and how the hierarchies of “race” were subject to significant gradation and shift.

Although following the war there would be an “elevation” of some “peoples” to “white” status, the war period was still riven by the hierarchies of preference and stratification within the racial-taxonomic realm. Mills “saw problems arising” and predicted there “will be cases of too much intimacy between those young, well-mannered and conducted Japs and local girls.”

Despite the reservations of Pipher and the BCSC (let alone the state) about free movement, Mills noted that “too stringent regulations at this time will cause an unfavorable condition,” and that “policies and regulations” need to be determined by need and on a local basis. Although there certainly was martial rule in the camps, and many of the people in the camps were officially interned and under much stricter control, the reality was that spaces were consistently mediated and negotiated via direct action.

The BCSC thought it impossible to restrict free movement at Schreiber camp. They believed they had a responsible partner in Watanabe as a leader, and as Watanabe had the camp’s “full support” they assumed that they could maintain rule by proxy. Nearby Jackfish Camp had a beer parlour, and the BCSC wondered if adding a pub could be enough to keep the Japanese from wandering to the local dance halls. In the end, the BCSC decided against imposing their plan of a blanket movement ban. Interestingly, the state also gave up on censoring the mail of these specific workers, unless they were sending it abroad, as the mail “could not contain information of much value to the enemy”—a freedom not extended to interned anti-fascist Canadians. Although Pipher wanted to move Wanatabe to another camp to “break” the impromptu organization, the BCSC thought better of it, noting that “should he be moved, he would cause trouble elsewhere.” Preferring to contain the trouble rather than turning local agitators into travelling organizers, Dave Wanatabe was left alone.”

- quotes from Mikhail Bjorge, “Destroying the Myth of Quietism: Strikes, Riots, Protest, and Resistance in Japanese Internment.” in Mochoruk, Jim; Hinther, Rhonda L., ed. Civilian internment in Canada: histories and legacies : an edited collection. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2020. Photos from top to bottom, with original captions from the SPL:

1) Gold Range Mine. Senator Hayes home and bunk houses 2 miles east of Schreiber. This became the main buildings for the Schreiber internment camp.  SPL 1996.1.11.

2) Men of the Schreiber camp, 1942.

Rear L - R: 1) ? 2) Fred Vogami 3) ? 4) ? 5) ? 6) ? 7) Jack Sadoio Shikitani 8) ? 9) ? 10) ? 11) Willie Kimitoshi Utsunomiya 12) Swede Sawada 13) George Suzuki;

Middle L - R: 1) ? 2) Butch Watanabe 3) Sam Hagino 4) Fred Akira Shititani 5) Koichi Nishikaze;

Front L - R: 1) Mickey Hogara 2) George Mochizuki 3) ? 4) John Kikuo Shikatani 5) ? 6) Art Tateishi 7) Sandy Ono

SPL 1996.1.20

3) Men working at the Japanese internment camp two miles east of Schreiber 1942-1944. George Keeno on left. SPL 1996.1.12.

4) Internees at Japanese Internment Camp two miles east of Schreiber. Men were sent to the camps to assist in road building in the area between Schreiber and Jackfish. SPL: 1996.1.19.

5) Left - Right: Minoru Nagasawa , Matahuru 'Mutt' Otsu.  Taking a break from chopping wood, 1942.

6) Some of the residents of a Japanese internment camp, during World War II. The camps were outside of Schreiber, about 2 miles east on Highway 17. 

Standing L - R: 1) Doug Arai 2) Punchy Ito 3) Don Otsu 4) Mitsuo Otsu 5) Len Takeshima 6) Maise Nishimura 7) Syd Nishimura. Seated L - R: 1) Larry Makino 2) Ernie Dikawa 3) George Nishimura. Some of the residents of a Japanese internment camp, during World War II. The camps were outside of Schreiber, about 2 miles east on Highway 17. 

SPL: 1996.1.18

All photos Schreiber Public Library.

#japanese canadian internment #internment camps #japanese canadians #canadian history #prison camp #japanese immigration to canada #nikkei #nikkei kanadajin #canada during world war 2 #dictatorship within democracy #defence of canada regulations #northern ontario #schreiber #work camp #racism in canada

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You Arms Pull Me In Like The Tide Pulls Me Under | Epilogue

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Dick Winters x Female SOE Agent!Reader

The end of the war is just the beginning of the rest of your lives.

Photo Credit: East Islip Historical Society

Warnings: Discussion of War Hardships, Permanent Injury/Disability, Holiday Party Setting, Inevitable Historical and Military Inaccuracies, Language, Mature/Explicit Themes - 18+ ONLY.

Note: This is a work of fiction based off the portrayal of Dick Winters by Damian Lewis. I hold nothing but respect for the real life individuals referenced within. Non-English is denoted in italics.

Word Count: 1244

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Nixon, New Jersey – December 20, 1946

The sprawling home of Stanhope Nixon was overflowing with guests, alcohol, and music as the annual Nixon Nitration Works holiday party was in full swing. Catering staff were milling about with silver trays of canapés and champagne while the management staff and their wives ate, drank, and made merry amongst the millwork and art that adorned Lewis’s father’s New Jersey home.

Lewis himself was busy playing host alongside his father, with his British war bride Irene in tow, as Dick kindly introduced you to his immediate supervisor. The modest diamond engagement ring and matching wedding band on your left ring finger refracted the light against the glass of champagne Lewis had planted in your hand upon your arrival, snagging your attention as it still tended to do, even eight months on.

The end of the war had come around the same time for you and Dick, with the Japanese surrender for him and with your discharge from Major Wilke’s command upon the arrival of the Allied prosecutorial team in Nuremberg furnished with a fleet of translators freshly released from Bletchley Park and other frontline duties. It had been bittersweet to be no longer needed, but as you had admitted to Dick that dreamy summer day in Austria, you were quite finished with your time in Europe.

It had taken over five months for Europe to let you go, however. Returning to England had been the easy part, your uncle’s widow in Oxford welcoming you back with open arms. With your more ambiguous service record under CWAC, however, return to Canada had taken rather longer. Priority on troop ships was naturally given to the boys in uniform, and then the girls who had enlisted in Canada. You had waited impatiently for your turn, working with your aunt to alter the wedding gown she had squirreled away from her own marriage in 1936. It had been her hope for her own daughter to wear it someday, but she had insisted as you were the closest thing she would ever have to such a person now, you ought to have it. So, it had become your joint project to turn it into something more modern for whenever you could find yourself standing in front of Dick Winters again.

That chance had not presented itself until March of 1946. Dick had arrived by train in your hometown in Canada, insistent on asking your father’s permission to marry you in person. He brought a ring, as promised, and married you one week later. Immigration paperwork had taken six weeks to clear, but you were grateful that it was nothing like the delay women from overseas endured. By the time you arrived in Nixon, New Jersey, Dick had a modest house and a car waiting for you, true to his word again. By the fall, you’d started offering private French lessons and you and Dick were seriously discussing whether or not you would attend vocational school to become a public-school teacher. Life was good, better than you could have ever imagined.

This party, however, had begun to drag on. Your feet were beginning to hurt as you stood around in your heels and you were feeling the strain of trying keep up with the myriad of conversations swirling around you amid the din of music and laughter. Dick’s hand on your lower back had you turning to him as he leaned into your left ear. “Let me show you the library.” His thumb swept along the fabric of your dress soothingly and you nodded gratefully as he excused you both.

Leading you down the hallway confidently, you wondered how many times he had been in this house, but felt your shoulders relax as the oppressive wall of sound faded away behind you. Guiding you around a corner, you couldn’t help but gasp as you stepped into a room filled with an expansive collection of leatherbound books, a fire laid in a stone hearth with a cozy seating area in front anchoring the space.

“Did we just find heaven?” You whispered conspiratorially and he chuckled as he kissed your temple, leading you to sit on an overstuffed leather sofa.

Setting down your now-empty glass on the low table in front of you, you sighed as you pressed a thumb between your brows. “I’m sorry it was so obvious I was having a hard time in there.” You apologized softly.

Sliding an arm around your shoulders, he gave a gentle squeeze. “Only to me, honey.” He assured you.

The sound of footsteps in the hall had both your heads turning sharply, concerned your sanctuary was about to be disrupted, but it was only Lewis who appeared in the doorway. “I thought I saw you two sneak off here.” He smirked, a glass of whisky in one hand and a bottle of Canada Dry ginger ale in the other. Kicking the door shut behind him, he came to sit in one of the armchairs across from the pair of you.

“Apparently we were not as subtle as we hoped.” You laughed as he poured half the bottle into your empty glass before handing the remainder to Dick, raising his own glass of amber liquid in a toast.

“Happy Holidays.”

“Happy Holidays, Lew.” Dick replied before your glassware came together in an awkward symphony of mismatched ‘clinks’ before you each took an appreciative sip.

“And to think we spent the last few scattered hither and yon.” Lewis remarked.

“Eating potatoes…” you muttered.

“Or nothing at all.” Dick added thoughtfully.

“Couldn’t get beef, Vat 69…nylons…” Lewis gave a nod in your direction, and you glanced at the closed door before eyeing him over the rim of your glass.

“Oh, I suppose it was a bit of a nuisance, but I honestly did appreciate having silk in my parachutes.” You took a leisurely sip, waiting for his reaction.

It unfolded slowly, his eyes widening before he sucked in a breath laced with droplets of his treasured whisky before coughing violently, pointing at you. “I knew it.” He wheezed eventually as you tried not to laugh too brightly at his expense. Dick held no such qualms, laughing richly beside you.

“Of course you did, you saw my last day firsthand.”

“But you finally admitted it! Please, you have to tell me everything…” He leaned forward eagerly, and you swallowed, wishing more than anything that you could.

There was still a great deal you hadn’t even shared with Dick; The Official Secrets Act preventing you from divulging anything. How you longed to share everything with them – the training schools in Scotland, the slosh of an aggressive amount of rum in your belly as you had fallen no more than ten seconds to hit the ground outside Lyon, your harrowing journey across the Andorra mountains into Spain to find passage back to England with your fresh side wound nagging at every step. The determination that had driven you back to Normandy just weeks after you return to London, and the eight months of exhausting, tension-laced work that had preceded their arrival. How you longed to share everything, to commiserate and to laugh. To be honest.

“Someday, Lewis. Someday it won’t be treason to talk about it and I will tell you everything.” You promised.

“To someday, then.” He grinned, raising his glass in another toast. “And believe me I will hold you to that.”

Laughing warmly, you raised yours in return. “To someday.”

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Tag list: @allthingsimagines, @bcon24

#dick winters x reader #dick winters #band of brothers x reader #band of brothers fanfic #band of brothers imagine #band of brothers imagines #band of brothers

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I had someone tell me Ireland is an ethnostate, similar to Israel. Ireland is a nation-state: a state that is relatively homogeneous in factors such as language. Israel is an ethnostate: a state that de facto and/or de jure restricts citizenship to members of a certain racial, ethnic, or religious group. The two are not the same. Suggesting they are is nothing short of insulting.

Relative ethnic homogeneity within a state’s borders is *not* inherently a sign of an ethnostate because relative homogeneity within a state’s borders is *not* necessarily the result of ethnostate citizenship restrictions. It is possible for a state to have a very heterogeneous population within its borders and be an ethnostate. Because what defines an ethnostate is whether the state de facto and/or de jure restricts citizenship to members of a certain racial, ethnic, or religious group. 

Ethnostate citizenship restrictions are also *not* inherently the result of a preexisting relative homogeneity within a state’s borders. There is absolutely a conversation to be had about the political, legal, economic, and social resources at a hegemonic group’s disposal to maintain its majority. One of those political and legal resources can be the establishment of an ethnostate. We can see this principle in action in the United States with right-wing calls to end jus soli. They know that ending jus soli and combining it with greater immigration restrictions is a more feasible way to achieve a homogeneous staatsvolk in the United States given that, by 2050, immigration will account for 71% of population growth and there will be no clear ethnic or racial majority within US borders. Legally restricting citizenship to members of a certain racial, ethnic, or religious group is the only way for the white, Christian majority to maintain itself, so it is publicly advocating for this to become a legal reality. 

On the other side of the spectrum, the modern Yamato people comprise over 98% of Japan’s population. For decades, Japanese political leaders have stated that ethnic homogeneity is key to Japanese national identity, and Japan has a long history of racism toward the Ainu, the Ryukyuans, the Koreans, and the Vietnamese. Japanese governments have created programs encouraging a single, unified, monocultural Japanese identity. Many of these programs included the erasure, forced assimilation, and suppression of minority ethnic groups and multiethnic people. Japanese imperialism and racism have a long history of brutal violence and oppression. It is through violence and oppression that they have been able to maintain its hegemonic ethnic state. They do not need to utilize ethnostate citizenship policies for Japan to maintain its staatsvolk.

Israel had to build its staatsvolk from scratch, similarly to other settler-colonial nations like the US, Canada, Australia, and South Africa. Israelis did not exist before 1948. The state had to build its national subjects, national identity, and hegemonic groups from the outside - in rather than the inside - out (like, say, Japan). The Israeli State had to secure the primacy of Judaism, Hebrew, and Ashkenazi identity among secular life and government, and it did it through Zionism. Zionism’s political intention and goal was a demographic shift in Palestine. It wanted to make the minority Jewish population a majority through massive Jewish immigration and settlement building, as well as the expulsion of the native Palestinians. It has continued its settler-colonial project by codifying Jewish entitlement to citizenship while making citizenship to Israel incredibly difficult to obtain if you are non-Jewish. Israel legally, socially, and economically encourages the settlement and citizenship of Jewish people while legally, socially, and economically discouraging the settlement and citizenship of non-Jewish people. Israeli law states that national self-determination is unique to Jewish people, establishes Hebrew as Israel’s official language, establishes Jewish settlement and citizenship as a national value, and calls Israel the “national home of the Jewish People.” There is no promise of political or legal equality for Palestinians and non-Jews in Israel as they are relegated to separate legal, political, public, and health systems.

Israel is an ethnoreligious state.

#Palestine #Israel #Apartheid #ethnostate #zionism #Youtube

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Happy new years everyone!!! I hope everyone had a good nesw years and if not...welp :/

Anways, I got more headcannons! :D

As I mentioned in m last hc post, these are hc I've written on my phone to send to my friend. I thought I write so much hc might as well post them. Also, Jason is Latino bc I’m Latino and I say so.

Ok, headcannon time!

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Batfam Accents

Dick:

Has a Romani / European accent

It’s a bit watered-down bc of him traveling in the circus

He knew english, but it was very broken

Or it sounded broken with how heavy his accent was

He learned how to switch accent and talk proper American english after becoming Robin as a way to further mask his identity

When he’s Robin and upset, he talks in his born dialect,

but in an American accent...

Yes, it is very funny

The teen titans thought he was going craz when he code switch

“Wait, you’re not (American) White?”

“Now where the fu-”

He uses his accent when in civilian form to keep the image

Jason:

Is an immigrant from Dominican Republic,

but immigrated when he was a baby

He only knew Spanish for the first few years of his life, until his mother died

His accent is also watered-down, but it's still strong to your genric American

It works when being questioned by the police,

just pretend you don't know english

As he got older and learned more english his accent basically went away (Still there, technology, just not as stronger)

Since he's from Gotham's streets, he has a heavy Jersey/Gotham accent (If you ever heard a jersey-ian (?) talk then you know what I'm talking about)

When he met Batman, he tried to play the "No Hablo inglés"

and Bruce pulls the uno reverse card and starts throwing spanish right back at him

"Abort mission"

When he teams up with Roy, Roy find him hot when he speaks spanish

He also teaches Lian spanish bc "I'm basically raising her too, Roy. That's my child as much as she is your's, and I'm teaching her spanish, danmmit"

Tim:

The only one withot an accent,

like he has a Gotham accent, but its posh Gotham (people with these accents are rich and think their shit dont stink)

Knows Korean and Yiddish fluently

Bc Tim is haft asian (I hc him as Korean and Jewish) and rich, ofc his parents had him learn a bunch of languages

Languages such as; Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Mandarin

One time the YJ (who didn't know his identity) ran into his civilian personal at a banquet and he had to speak Korean

Yj was on a mission, however, to watch over him (much to his displeasure) and he had to pretend to only speak Korean the whole night

When frustrated and/or in pain, he switches to one of the many languages he know

"What is your ethnicity? You're fluent in too many languages"

"Human. No more questions"

Damian:

Is actually an immigrant

(At least, I believe so...corrent me if im wrong)

His accent is the heaviest out of all of them bc he grew up in the middle east for a good chunk of his life

He hides it with posh European english (how he was taught english)

Knows a lot of languages bc Talia said knowing all of them is important

He doesn't know Cantonese, Portugese, or Hawaiian

Still getting use to speaking more in english and not Arabic

Still wasn't able to properly mask his accent yet as some words are weird to pronounce.

Cassandra:

Is taking speach therapy so she also doesn't really have an accent

She just speaks broken english bc she's getting used to talking

Talks very softly

Uses ASL mostly as it is an easier wa to communicate

Slowly gaining a Canadian accent bc her speech instructor is from Canada

Duke:

Like jason, also has a Gotham/Jersey accent

Grew up in regular gotham streets, unlike Tim, so it's more slang words

The "Blaccent"

Is very heavy, like he cant turn it off

which is fine bc he's a gotham base vigilante

Teaches Damian Jersey slang

Bonce!!!!

Bruce also has a posh Jersey accent that Tim as bc all rich and high society do

and Alfred is obviously british

#bruce wayne #batfam headcanons #batfamily #batfam #duke thomas #dick grayson #damian wayne #tim drake #jason todd #alfred pennyworth #gotham #batman

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I'm going to try to write this thought out properly.

I saw a post comment with someone saying that jazz doesn't count as American culture because it was created by a mistreated minority (ie. African Americans).

Which, look, you wanna go up to a black person on any random US street and tell them they don't count as American, you're as racist as the Dred Scott case.

I don't believe that America and Canada, as personifications of their peoples, represent only the "White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestants". Both are diverse countries with a long history of immigration, not to mention the many indigenous peoples that inhabited the land before they came into existence as countries.

Have these minorities been treated awfully? Yes. But I believe that America and Canada as personifications have suffered for it. The abuse we have heaped in each other is to our detriment as a people and a nation. And to our Nations as well. Because I don't believe either Al nor Matt represent only the white European culture. They are also representative of an Navajo child stolen from his family and forced into a Reservation school, a black girl who is spat at for trying to drink out of the Whites-only water fountain, an Japanese family in an internment camp, and a Mexican one forcibly separated at the border. They have been hurt, and hurt themselves. They have been taught to hate parts of themselves, but that part is still there.

I like to think that as time has past and we as a people have grown (somewhat anyways), so have they. When I think of our Hetalia America and Canada, I think there is potential there to explore. With all Nations of course, in different ways. But I always enjoy seeing the North America brothers depicted as more than just a mush of co-opted British/European culture. I love AU versions of them as mixed race as well, and wish it was depicted more often.

If that makes any sense....

#hws america #hws canada #na brothers #na twins #alfred f. jones #na bros #hws na bros #aph america #aph canada #matthew williams

[mysillytdsideblog]

Total ROTI headcanons

race & identities

mike

Ethnicity: italian-mexican

Nationality: canadian

second gen immigrant from mexico to manitoba, canada

speaks spanish, italian, and english

plural they/them collective pronouns

no set identity bc of being a system, ive made a post about the alters identities

Scott

Race: White

first gen immigrant from southern US to canada

speaks english

cis straight

Anne Maria

Ethnicity: Mexican

Nationality: American-Canadian

Moved from Jersey to Canada

Speaks english

she/her

cis straight

Zoey

Ethnicity: Japanese

Nationality: Canadian

speaks english

she/her

cis straight

Dakota

Race: White

Nationality: Canadian

Speaks english

she/her

cis straight

Dakota

Ethnicity: Russian

Nationality: Canadian

lives in Quebec

speaks english, french, and russian

They/She

Pangender Pansexual

Lightning

Ethnicity: Morrocan

Nationality: Canadian

speaks english

he/him

cis straight

B

Race: Black

Nationality: American-Canadian

Moved from Brooklyn to Canada

speaks english and french

he/him

transmasc unlabled

Brick

Ethnicity: Korean-Chinese

Nationality: Canadian

speaks english and chinese mandarin

he/him

cis gay

Sam

Race/Ethnicity: White-Ashkanazi Jew

Nationality: Canadian

speaks english, hebrew, arabic, and some japanese and chinese

he/him

cis straight

Cameron

Race: Black

Nationality: Canadian

speaks a little bit of a lot of things but only fluent in english

he/him

cis idk what

Jo

Ethnicity: Polish-Ukrainian-German-Greek

Third Gen Ukrainian immigrant to canada

Nationality: Canadian

speaks english

she/her

?? lesbian

Staci

Race: White

Nationality: Canadian

speaks english

she/her

cis straight

#total drama #total drama island #total drama revenge of the island #td #tdi #tdroti #headcanons

[sevendeadlyyamis]

BFDI Ethnicity HCs

Why? I just feel like it.

Characters will be sorted in alphabetical order in their post-split BFB and TPOT teams (And also the exitors):

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Note: In a human au, I imagine them all living in Canada. Just keep that in mind when reading this blog post.

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Have Cots:

- Balloony : Romani British (His grandparents are from Romania) - Bubble: 1/3 Ukranian, 2/3 Mongolian (Her mother immigrated to Mongolia in her 20s) - Gelatin : Hawaiian - Leafy : 1/2 Taglog-Filipino, 1/2 Saudi Arabian (Tree is her father and Woody is her half-brother) - Lollipop : Black Hungarian (Her ancestors were from South Africa, and Teardrop is her niece) - Ruby: Chinese (Although some of her sisters are 1/2 Thai) - Teardrop: Romani Hungarian (Lollipop is zer aunt)

Have Nots:

- Blocky : 1/2 Japanese, 1/2 Scottish - Firey: Ojibwe (Ojibwe people are one of the Indigenous groups in Canada. Firey Jr is his cousin) - Flower : 1/3 Irish, 2/3 Turkish - Loser : African-American - Spongy : Francophone (French-Canadian) - Taco : Chilean - Woody : 1/2 Saudi-Arabian, 1/2 Taiwanese (His half-sister is Leafy and his father in Tree)

The S!:

- Bottle : 1/4 Turkish , 3/4 Korean - Clock : Finnish (White) - Cloudy : 1/2 Belgian, 1/2 Palestinian - Ice Cube : Korean - Rocky : Brazilian - Winner : Desi (Their great-grandparents are from Pakistan) - Yellow Face : Born and raised Anglophone (English Canadian)

Team8s:

- Barf Bag : Malaysian - Coiny : Egyptian - Donut : Indonesian-German - Gaty : 3/4 Greek, 1/4 Cree (Indigenous Canadian tribe) - Needle : Japanese - Pin : 1/2 Malgasy , 1/2 Indian (Grandmother on her mother's side is from Madagascar and her father is from India) - Saw : Japanese

Death P.A.C.T again!:

- Black Hole : 1/2 South African, 1/2 Romani Hungarian - Fanny : Iroquois (Indigenous Canadian tribe) - Lightning : 1/2 Anglophone, 1/2 Korean - Marker : Mexican (Pen and Pencil are his cousins) - Pie: Iranian (She's also a muslim) - Remote : Afro-Syrian - Tree : Saudi Arabian-Australian

The Strongest Team On Earth:

- Basketball : Hispanic Danish (Her ancestors are from Peru) - Bell : 1/3 Chilean, 2/3 Metis - Eggy : Latin American - Foldy : Japanese - Grassy : Anglophone (Black) - Robot Flower : Black German - Snowball : Icelandic

Just Not:

- Bomby : 1/2 Chinese, 1/2 African American - Book : Black Francophone - Cake : 1/3 Puerto Rican, 2/3 Colombian (His parents are both black) - Naily : Taiwanese - Nickel : Indonesian (May or not be related to II Nickel) - Pillow : 1/2 Swedish, 1/2 Japanese - Price Tag : Manobo-Filipino (Manobo are Indigenous people that reside in the Philipines

Are You Okay?:

- Eraser : Indian-Polish - Fries : Peruvian - Golf ball : 1/2 Scottish, 1/2 Nigerian (Her mother immigrated to Canada from Nigeria when she was a teenager which is when she met Golf ball's father in an airport (He's a year younger than her[*Golfball's mom] ). ) - Pen : Mexican (Pencil is his sister and Marker is his cousin) - Puffball : 1/2 Vietnamese , 1/2 Anglophone (White) - Tennis ball : 3/4 British , 1/4 Thai - TV : Ukranian

Exitors:

- Pencil : Mexican (Pen is her sibling and Marker is her cousin) - Bracelety : 1/2 Greek, 1/2 South African - Liy : 1/2 Slavic-Greek, 1/2 Vietnamese - Roboty : Unknown - 8-Ball : Japanese - Stapy : Italian-Peruvian - Match : 1/2 Metis, 1/2 Afro-Mexican - Firey Jr : 1/2 Ojibwe, 1/2 Mexican (Firey is his cousin) - David : 1/2 Francophone, 1/2 German - Dora : Colombian

Others:

- Profily : Laos-Anglophone (Their grandparents immigrated to Canada in the 70s) - Onigiri : 1/2 Korean, 1/2 Japanese - Evil Leafy : Taiwanese (Woody's mother adopted her when she was 8) - Tune : Cantonese

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So that is everything: Thank you for listening

#bfb #bfdi #battle for bfb #battle for bfdi #tpot #the power of two #yami rambles #anti dni #battle for dream island #alt-right dni #bfb human au #bfb humanized #bfdi humanized #bfdia #battle for dream island again

[stargazer-sims]

hiiii <3 happy new years!! hope you're doing well and enjoying the holiday season :)

if you're still accepting asks for this prompt, how about 🖊 for nikolai?

Hey @holocene-sims ! Sorry this took so long. I haven't really been on here much since the holidays, but I thought I should probably at least finish some asks while I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing next.

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Nikolai Pavlenko

Nikolai is a first-generation Canadian. His parents and grandfather immigrated to Canada a short time before he and his twin sister Natalya (a.k.a. Natascha) were born. Although he's aware of his heritage and culture, he thinks of himself as a Canadian first and has never had much desire to go to his parents' country of origin. The first time he ever travelled to Russia was when he was 13 years old, and it was for an international figure skating competition. All of his subsequent visits there have been connected to skating competitions as well.

Nikolai's family speaks Russian at home, and both he and Natascha are fluent in it along with English and French. Nikolai is quick with languages, and in addition to the three he's fluent in, he's also learned enough Japanese for a basic conversation, and he's picked up a surprising amount of Korean from his student Eden's family as well. (Eden and his siblings are also first-generation Canadians, and they speak Korean with their parents).

If Nikolai were to describe himself in one word, it'd be "unremarkable". That's not to say he's never accomplished anything, but he's always been the sort of person other people easily overlook or forget. Of course, the people closest to him would never see him that way. His family and friends would all describe him as gentle, giving, open-minded and compassionate. They'd also describe him as fun-loving or a troublemaker, depending on who you ask. He's one of those rare people who genuinely wants to love and be loved by everyone and who wants everyone to be happy.

Acquaintances and strangers, on the other hand, are a different story. The thing with Nikolai is that no matter what he does, he never seems to stand out. People tend not to notice him for his looks or talents, nor for what he says or does in general. Currently, he's a figure skating coach, but back when he was a competitor, he won World Championship medals in five consecutive seasons (three silver, two gold), and yet there are people in the figure skating sphere who have to pause a minute to recognize him or associate his name with his accomplishments. He has no idea why this is, and sometimes it bothers him, but at this point he's mostly learned to accept it.

Nikolai feels like he's learned to accept a lot of things he doesn't necessarily like or agree with, simply because he often puts the well-being of others ahead of his own. He often feels hurt or disappointed by his interactions with other people, but he usually tries to let it go, telling himself that he's making someone else's day, and that's what really matters. He doesn't know if he believes this all the time, but it's how he's learned to cope.

It's sometimes difficult for him to admit, but he's happiest in relationships where someone else can take on the role of caretaker for him sometimes instead of constantly relying on him to be the strong one. He has this sort of relationship with his mentor and former coach, Beth-Anne. He also has it with his best friend Ginger and with his partner Mishka, although viewed from the outside it might seem that Nikolai is Mishka's caretaker and protector most of the time.

More than anyone, Mishka is aware of Nikolai's tendency to sacrifice his own happiness and comfort for the happiness and comfort of others. He's exceptionally good at reminding Nikolai to take care of himself without making him feel guilty or weak. For all his own weaknesses, Mishka has strength in all the areas Nikolai needs it. He's learned the importance of having boundaries and the skill of tactfully saying no, and he understands that self-care and self-love aren't selfish. He also knows that worrying doesn't change anything and that it's okay to let go. These are all things he's trying to teach Nikolai, who is slowly but surely learning them too.

Nikolai is convinced Mishka is the only person he's ever been truly in love with. There was obviously a point at which he thought he was in love with his ex-wife Anya, but now that they're divorced and some time has passed and he's gotten perspective, he realizes it was more like he was in love with the idea of being in love with her. He knows he loves Ginger, but after trying a dating relationship for a short time, they both reached the conclusion that they may love each other deeply but they're not in love with one another. Nikolai is grateful they figured it out before it ruined their friendship, and he's extremely grateful that Mishka recognizes their love for what it is and isn't the least bit worried or jealous about it.

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Random things about Nikolai:

his birthday is 18 December

he started skating at age four

his favourite colour is green

he suffers from motion sickness and dislikes travelling

he doesn't like doctors and hospitals

he likes to cook

he's a cat person

his favourite seasons are autumn and winter

his hobbies include woodworking and drawing

his comfort food is peanut butter toast

#sapphire answers #oc asks #nikolai pavlenko #stargazersims

[arkipelagic]

On the topic of Indigenous Peoples

In the Philippines, “Indigenous Peoples” is a political identity wherein indigeneity is less about one’s origins but more about one’s relationship with Spanish colonization and/or subordination to nearby sultanates; history of religion; and, most importantly, current marginalized status.

The Philippines is unlike the Americas in two ways:

It is not, as a whole,* a settler colony like the United States and Canada

It is not, as a whole, a mestizaje society like Mexico and Brazil

Instead, majority of postcolonial era Filipinos can still trace the bulk, if not the entirety, of their origins in what is now the Philippines. We are to varying degrees a mix of the First Sundaland Peoples who first settled in Southeast Asia and the later Austronesian-speaking immigrants from modern-day Taiwan. All natives of the Philippines are descended from these prehistoric populations. Centuries of back-to-back colonization and occupation from Spain, Britain, the United States, and Japan did very little to impact the overall genetic legacy of Filipinos aside from special enclaves of elite political European descendants (e.g. Ayala clan) and Chavacano creoles in Zamboanga. If anything, there are more Chinese Filipino mestizos than Eurasian and Japanese ones.

However, the Philippines being a native-majority country does not make just anyone Indigenous. In the Philippines, you are considered an Indigenous People (“IPs” for short; also “katutubo”) if yours is an ethnolinguistic group that is historically neither Christian nor Muslim. This makes majority of Filipinos non-Indigenous as they are either from Hispanicized or Islamized ethnic groups.** Even if you are someone practicing Christianity or Islam or any other religion of foreign origin now, as long as you come from a historically non-Christian and non-Muslim minority ethnic group you are still considered an IP.

*out of the three major Philippine islands, Mindanao is known for its Visayan settler colony

**including all but the Sama-Bajau

#philippines #x #southeast asia #indigenous peoples #indigeneity

[inversionimpulse]

so a propos of absolutely nothing, I was thinking about Doctor Who.

Turn Left, specifically.

"'Labor camps'... that's what they called them last time. It's happening again," even more specifically.

As far as I've seen, most people online connected that to the nazis and the holocaust. But my family has a history with labor camps, and that's not what I heard in that scene.

I heard echoes of "No Japs from the Rockies to the seas."

During WW2, here in Canada where I write from, 850 German-Canadians, 700 Italian-Canadians, and 22000 Japanese Canadians were forced out of their homes and into labor camps, sometimes straight into POW camps and frequently separated from their families, by our government. People were made to live in literal stables and barns, or else build their own homes from nearly nothing. They were forced to do back-breaking work for below-subsistence money - and they did indeed have to pay for the privilege of being treated like animals. The government "took temporary custody" of every single thing the Japanese prisoners owned and sold them for fractions of their material value, never mind sentimental value. When it was all over, they were tossed out the other side of the affair with not a single thing to their names but the trauma and, for the Japanese, eviction from the west coast where most of them lived - for some, from the country entirely.

This was neither the start nor the end of the persecution of German, Italian, and Japanese Canadians.

"The Italian South Peasant is not the type we are looking for in Canada."

"Take them back to Japan. They do not belong here, and here, and there is only one solution to the problem."

My grandmother and grandfather, second-generation Japanese immigrants, survived those camps. My family still suffers the repercussions as generational trauma.

I don't know if there was anything similar in Britain. I'd assume so, but I'm not going to check because I'm only partly talking about if this is a supportable interpretation of the writing, I'm mostly talking about how it resonated with me. (but I don't think the victims in the show being an Italian family was a coincidence)

It is certainly worse to be a nazi than the people behind the internment for whom there isn't a catchy name. I'm not about to say that the suffering my family and all those other Japanese, German, and Italian families were put through compares in any way to the suffering of Jewish families in nazi territory. But the meaning behind Wilf's horror takes a very different edge depending on who you see behind it. And I personally think that "We're becoming like Them, we're being corrupted" is a much weaker horror than "We're still like Us, we haven't learned better at all" In fact when contrasted like that, the former looks almost like the fear of being infected by the Other that caused the internment camps to begin with.

The latter, on the other hand, forces us to contend with the fact that there is no Them. We, all we humans, are Us. The existence of Them is mere illusion, and fear of it makes us commit a grand and abstract sort of suicide.

It's a message that Doctor Who frequently tries to convey and sometimes bungles. In fact it is a message that so many different things try to convey so frequently that it has become a little bit trite. But it's a message to be proud of, especially when you can deliver it so viciously and powerfully.

#doctor who #new who #russell t davies #turn left #tenth doctor #donna noble #wilfred mott #bernard cribbins #cw slurs #cw racism

[specterthief]

canadian thoughts on langa's hometown

it's never actually specified in sk8 the infinity where in canada langa is from, but i am canadian and very autistic so i have been overthinking this since i watched the show and have come to what i think is a solid conclusion that might be proven totally wrong as soon as season 2 comes out

there's a few things we know about langa that i think are particularly relevant to narrowing down where he might be from:

he lived somewhere with easy, regular access to snowboarding

he's catholic (or at least went to catholic school, but from the bits showing him crossing himself i think it's meant to be understood that he's at least... loosely catholic himself, not just a "going to catholic school because they're better funded" situation)

he's never been to the coastline

he and his father speak english

if not for point 3, my easy bet would be that he's from british columbia – most of the biggest ski resorts in canada are in BC (including whistler-blackcomb, the largest ski resort in all of north america) and BC even has the largest (and most historically entrenched) japanese population in the country, which at a glance would make it a likely place for nanako to have immigrated to.

however, BC is a coastal province, with vancouver (by far the largest city) being right on the coast and victoria (the capital) being on an island. even if langa lived in a city further inland, the idea that his family never traveled to the coast in his entire life before coming to japan seems very unlikely to me.

however, there's a place that better fits all the criteria for langa's hometown: québec, specifically montréal. montréal is only a bit over an hour's drive from mont-tremblant, the #1 ski resort in eastern north america, so oliver would have been able to take langa there all season with no trouble. the city has a very large catholic population and québec has historically been a catholic center of canada, so langa growing up catholic also fits (while the very low church attendance despite the large catholic population also tracks with him not having any seeming involvement in the catholic community in naha after moving there.) and while québec as a whole is largely francophone, montréal has the largest population of solely anglophone and bilingual people in the province, so the fact that langa and oliver are shown speaking english rather than french wouldn't be unusual if they're specifically from montréal.

poutine, langa's favorite food, is actually also from québec specifically, despite its association with canada as a whole and some people from québec even consider the broader association with canada to be cultural appropriation lol

so yeah, my verdict until proven otherwise is that langa most likely grew up in montréal!

(my one quibble is that if his father is meant to be québecois his name would probably be olivier rather than oliver, but ehhh if he's from a totally anglophone family then that doesn't really matter since it doesn't have to be a french-canadian name)

also, as a fun fact: the mont-tremblant resort is absolutely gorgeous, and would be both very visually distinctive and beautiful to stylize if they wanted to have langa and the gang go to canada in season 2... 👀

#fandom: sk8 the infinity #mine #meta #??? #is this meta #sk8 the infinity #langa hasegawa #overthinking

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Two Days for Jap On Curfew Infraction,” Vancouver Sun. April 18, 1942. Page 17. --- Kichiji Shimizu, 52, Japanese of 252 Powell Street, was sentenced to two days in jail Friday for being outside his home after sundown Thursday. 

"I think if he hadn't been drunk he'd have been inside," Constable E. R. Lindy told the court. He said the man was a First Great War veteran and a naturalized Canadian.

[AL: A small sample of the conditions of registration of ‘enemy alien’ Japanese Canadians, even if a war veteran and citizen, who could be jailed for curfew ‘infractions.’ As Shimizu was over 45, he was not subject to immediate internment.]

#vancouver #enemy aliens #undesirable citizens #japanese canadians #japanese canadian internment #japanese immigration to canada #canadian veteran #canadian citizenship #sentenced to prison #county jail #canada during world war 2 #dictatorship within democracy #defence of canada regulations #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada #racism in canada

[pixel-chills]

Dreamflower environmental facts!

Since I don't really wanna settle Solros and Luan's story into an already existing culture and environment and rules and regulations, because I couldn't decide wether or not the place they live in would be England or Scotland or Ireland or Canada or USA or Japan etc etc. I love those cultures, and I found their systems for everything from government to school and education interesting, but I've never lived in any of those countries, so I don't want to mispresent anything in my stories.

So, I created my own country, where I get to desing its culture, laws, all the possible systems and storyline helpers from my own imagination, rather than trying to strictly follow one already set one. This also helps me to have freedom with any sort of environmental stuff necessary for my story.

This is Plutonia.

Plutonia is an island country. It has its own indepedence, but works as a constitutional monarchy under the English Crown, just like Canada. 

On the world it's located underneath Newfoundland island, close to the North-East coast of US. Here's some basic info I've written down so far:

 - Area: 260, 000 km2

 - Population: 9,5 million

 - Capital: Kolor

 - Currency: Plutonian Dollar

 - Climate: Similar to the areas nearby; four seasons, warm summers, couple months of snow every year.

 - Language: English

 - Architecture: mixture of British, Japanese, and Netherlands style housings. 

 - School system: also kind of a mix of those three countries, but years/grades work like in the US. 

- Was a British colony, immigrated by Irish and Scandinavian people at some point. 

Both Solros and Luan were born in Duskfort City. Solros lived there until his transformation. Luan's family lives up to the North in a small town called Bluebell. 

The biggest cities are marked on the map.

#dreamflower #dreamflower lore #plutonia country #luan #solros #pixelchills ocs

[allthebooksandcrannies]

I was today years old when I learned that Canada also incarcerated Japanese immigrants and Japanese Canadians during World War II.

I knew America had concentration camps for people of Japanese ancestry, but I had never been told by anyone that Canada did too. I only figured it out now because the Wikipedia article on the American camps had a link to the page on Canada's.

Seems like something that should be talked about more often. I hate how America centric even our world history classes are.

#history #american history #canadian history #canadian #japanese history #japanese #japan #canada #american #america #usa #us history #usa history #japanese american #japanese canadian #concentration camp #japanese internment #internment camp #japanese incarceration #mass incarceration #world history #ww2 history #ww2 #wwii #wwii history #world war 2 #world war ii #wwii era

[milkteaarttime]

Once you get this, you have to say five things you like about yourself, publicly. Then you have to send this to ten of your favourite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool~)🤭No pressure

Ooh im on mobile so Idk how to do the fancy lists and coloured text quite yet but ummmm

1. I really like my hairstyle. Its a shaggy mullet i cut myself and I have a middle part! Took a while to figure it out

2. Probably my fashion style? Im a huge tomboy so I think I look great in hoodies and street wear! And Hoodies are one of my comfort special interest kinda item. I cant wear other clothes bc i like having the hood rest on my neck and I feel odd without it.

3. Im really friendly and empathetic towards people. It’s one of my strong suits my entire life i think. I am a very open minded person. Im chill af :D

4. I love my language abilities, I am a Chinese immigrant in Canada and Im lucky to have preserved my language abilities. I speak English, Mandarin, some Cantonese, and some Japanese. I do hope to learn some Spanish(Mexican Spanish or South American Spanish) and European languages like German, and maybe even Russian and Ukrainian. The more languages the better lol.

5. I like that I have lots of Hobbies! I cook and bake, draw, sing, learning things and I am hoping to take up sewing with an actual machine soon. I want to make the ‘perfect’ hoodie for myself.

I don’t have Many ppl to tag so i will tag maybe 2 mutuals!

@keegansshark @cumikering @the-deer-temple (sorry if you guys have already been tagged!)

[moregraceful]

in case you haven't been able to find this out yet: there have never been any miscegenation laws in canada or british columbia. (one of the OG british governors/colonizers in what would become BC had an english father and a creole mother from guyana and married a cree woman.)

that doesn't mean that there hasn't been massive stigma, because there definitely has been, and racism against Asian people legislated in other ways (Chinese head tax, Japanese internment, inability to vote, those are just the famous examples), plus other national immigration policies that discriminated against anyone who wasn't british, essentially, until the 60s.

but to your main point: there have never been any miscegenation laws in british columbia.

(if you'd like to know about early filipino immigration to BC, this is what the canadian encyclopedia has to say: "there is evidence of a filipino presence in canada as early as the 1890s. by the early 20th century, a small community was likely established in british columbia. Indeed, canadian records from the 1920s show that there was a small number of filipinos in the country. many early migrants likely came from the united states".)

I hope this is helpful!

Anon you are the light of my life, thank you 🫡 I appreciate you treating my tag with thoughtfulness and the spirit of friendly education!! This helps a lot!!

#having an mlis makes you very good at research but also VERY prone to getting side tracked #thank you 💙💙 #cage replies #anon