Case Study: Xenophobia, keeping the outside world at bay / living with secrets & spies
It took place in BC. "The Komagata Maru story reflects a deliberate, exclusionary policy of
the Canadian government to keep out ethnicities with whom it deemed
unfit to enter. These justifications were couched in racist and
ethnocentric views of "progress", "civilization", and "suitability"
which all buttressed the view that Canada should remain a "White Man's
Country".
On May 23, 1914, a crowded ship from Hong Kong carrying 376
passengers, most being immigrants from Punjab, British India, arrived in
Vancouver's Burrard Inlet on the west coast of the Dominion of Canada.
The passengers, all British subjects, were challenging the Continuous
Passage regulation, which stated that immigrants must "come from the
country of their birth, or citizenship, by a continuous journey and on
through tickets purchased before leaving the country of their birth, or
citizenship." The regulation had been brought into force in 1908 in an
effort to curb Indian immigration to Canada. As a result, the Komagata
Maru was denied docking by the authorities and only twenty returning
residents, and the ship's doctor and his family were eventually granted
admission to Canada. Following a two month stalemate, the ship was
escorted out of the harbour by the Canadian military on July 23, 1914
and forced to sail back to Budge-Budge, India where nineteen of the
passengers were killed by gunfire upon disembarking and many others
imprisoned."Source of quote
1950's Cold War Propaganda - Communism Vs Capitalism
McCarthyism is the politically motivated practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. The term specifically describes activities associated with the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s and characterized by heightened fears of communist influence on American institutions and espionage by Soviet agents.
During the post–World War II era of McCarthyism, many thousands of Americans were accused of being Communists or communist sympathizers and became the subject of aggressive investigations and questioning before government or private-industry panels, committees and agencies.
