In the past, we did not have the same view of the world, justice, fairness, etc. that we do today. Back then, the death penalty was what was normal, women usually stayed at home (except during the war), and being racist towards black people was everyday life. Suffice to say, it is a very different world we live in today.

We had the death penalty in Canada, along with the fact that we were still strongly tied to Britain, so we had to go through the British government to change our constitution, and it needed many changes right after we became a country, so eventually we made it so we cold change without Britain’s approval.

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Pearl Harbor was a major social conflict. It was brought about by the Japanese fear of the U.S. navy, so eventually,on December 7^th, 1941, the Japanese bombed and destroyed Pearl Harbor. The names of all of the sailors who died there are engraved on tall stone pedestals. After that, the U.S. got involved in the war, and they sent off all of the Japanese people living in America to concentration camps, and were treated unfairly for a long time.

With two waves of over 353 planes from 2 aircraft carriers, The Japanese were able to destroy two U.S. battleships, a minelayer, and two destroyers, and killed 2388 men and injure 1178, making the casualty count much higher than the number of injuries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

Adolph Hitler was not evil. He was doing what he believed was needed to be done to make the world a better place. And so did the people who followed him. They believed him because he convinced them that he was was their savior from the Jewish people, their savior from the rest of the world, and they eventually believed that all the other countries were looking down on Germany, which, really, they were. That was how he was able to rally support for the second world war, also the second world war mostly initiated by Germany. The people of Germany felt that they were getting unfair sanctions, and they were being oppressed by the winners of the first world war.  Feeling like this, they decided the only way to make Germany a superpower again was to start another war, and do their best to win.

Adolf Hitler also persecuted other groups, but they are not as well known as his persecution of the Jews. Those other groups are the gays, ethnic Poles, Soviets (particularily POW), the Roma, the disabled and other various groups such as Jehova’s Witnesses. These groups were not focused on as much, because they were only minor problems compared to the Jews, as the Nazis believed.^{Conlan Kirk}

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_holocaust}

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We are all guilty of it. I doubt any one of us, besides a child who can barely talk yet, could honestly say we have never judged someone, and I’m pretty damn sure that only someone who’s about five or younger would do it and not understand that they are judging someone. It could be about the way they dress, the way they act, their religion, their race, etc. Everyone has, does or will do it. Not a single person old enough to speak and understand what judging is isn’t guilty of it. It’s just the way the world works.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UOld6GpOYUc

I beleive that there are only racial tensions because it gives people an excuse for violence, money, and because we all feel we are perfect. Humans created race, we are responsible for the abuse put on any race, because there is no race, only the idea of race. We created race so there is a way of labeling people, not based on who they or what they are, but because of their skin color, or the way they talk. Racial tensions are nonsense. Everyone is living in the past, about how we treated black people, and Aboriginals. What we need to do is realize we made a mistake, and not attempt to correct it, for it is impossible to make up for centuries of mistreatment and slavery, but to accept now as members of society. We have done that, but we try to do both, which is just stupid… because they accept it even though they know that being exempt from certain taxes, and spots reserved for them in school, or jobs, won’t ever make up for what our ancestors have done in the past. In my opinion, we are not our ancestors, and so why should we pay for what they have done? The sins of the father passed on to the son…

 http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/macarthur/inequality/papers/WilsonRacialTension.pdf