The Divine Wind Conflicts

The divine wind presents the same conflicts that occur throughout the history of mankind, they were all caused by racial prejudice. The Divine wind is set during World War II where tension arose between Australian and Japanese communities. Infamous events that were motivated by racial discrimination include The Holocaust, the African-American civil rights movement and the treatment of the Aborigines are ultimately the result of racism. These events resulted in death of millions of people. Even today, racial conflict occurs, an example being between the Islamic and non-Islamic people, as seen in the recent anti-Islamic video that went viral. this shows racial conflict is still predominant in our society.
The Divine wind written Gary Disher depicts the prevalence of prejudice, which results in adversity between white and minorities in Australia during the war. This is evident with the treatment of the Japanese communities, as many of them were interrogated and arrested as they were suspected of being spies for japan. Friendship started to fall apart as they felt uncomfortable with each other due to the racial tension, which is exactly what happened with Mitsy, Hart and Alice.
The holocaust is the most well-known racially driven conflict. Where Jewish, Gypisies, the disabled, homosexuals and other groups were explicitly hunted down and annihilated. The Nazi’s hatred towards non-Arians resulted in the death of 6 million Jewish people, concentration camps were created to hold prisoners and killed millions through gassings, extreme work and starvation. The final solution was Nazi Germany’s plan to execute systematic genocides of the Jewish community. Halfway through the war Japan joined against the Ally forces creating a true world war, this action caused suspicions to arise between the Australian and Japanese communities. Many Australians suspected Japanese people of being spies and trying to steal intel from Australia and sending it back to Japan, due to their