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Hispanics and American Indians look very similar but we seem to treat them okay through most of the country. In Canada, part of the genocide of the indigenous First Nations peoples that started with the residential schools of the 1920s for forcing indigenous kids to be away from their parents, learn English and be punished for speaking their language and forcing them to learn Christianity and Western culture has been made worse by this "60s scoop" where whole families were taken from their parents by Police working with rascist social workers and split up all over Canada. This Professor was placed in foster care with a white family and her foster family moved to West Germany for a while. The government did this from the mid-sixties until 1985 and the Canadian government is paying a large settlement where maybe $47,000 per person or about $40,000 American dollar we'll get to each Survivor. This is not enough. Canada claims to be friendly but they are actually very racist towards their first Nations people. It still happens to this day. When my wife comes the United States, she feels liberated because everyone thinks she's Hispanic. They don't call her squaw, they don't follow her around thinking she's going to shoplift and they don't make racist remarks. If anyone doubts the racism in Canada, I have at least three videos that I can show you that could make you think you were a 1965 Selma Alabama except the people say eh! And have a Canadian accent.
Hispanics and American Indians look very similar but we seem to treat them okay through most of the country. In Canada, part of the genocide of the indigenous First Nations peoples that started with the residential schools of the 1920s for forcing indigenous kids to be away from their parents, learn English and be punished for speaking their language and forcing them to learn Christianity and Western culture has been made worse by this "60s scoop" where whole families were taken from their parents by Police working with rascist social workers and split up all over Canada. This Professor was placed in foster care with a white family and her foster family moved to West Germany for a while. The government did this from the mid-sixties until 1985 and the Canadian government is paying a large settlement where maybe $47,000 per person or about $40,000 American dollar we'll get to each Survivor. This is not enough. Canada claims to be friendly but they are actually very racist towards their first Nations people. It still happens to this day. When my wife comes the United States, she feels liberated because everyone thinks she's Hispanic. They don't call her squaw, they don't follow her around thinking she's going to shoplift and they don't make racist remarks. If anyone doubts the racism in Canada, I have at least three videos that I can show you that could make you think you were a 1965 Selma Alabama except the people say eh! And have a Canadian accent.
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Thank you, Major. People's ignorance on matters of "race" are astounding. (See my closing comment for my viewpoint on "race".)
Point of fact:
Racism exists in every corner of the world, without exception. Period. It's a human behavioral trait even though we, as an "intelligent species" should know better.
Also point of fact:
"Hispanic" means a person of Latin American descent. Remember, the first people from Europe to the New World were those from Spain and Portugal..."Hispania", or the Iberian Peninsula. Hispanics of many flavors thus resemble many of the indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America because they have a common genetic heritage due to the intermingling of these peoples.
Another fascinating point of fact:
Racism exists even within individual cultural circles of peoples. For example, people in the United States make a big deal about racism between Mexicans and white people. Well, the news flash for them is that there is racism prevalent in Mexico between dark skinned Mexicans and light skinned Mexicans. Yet, they're "Mexicans", by culture, nation, and shared genetic background.
Personally, it's my belief that a great many people would do well to actually spend some time traveling to other countries and seeing what life and people are really like elsewhere. It's a real eye opener.
And I don't mean to touristy places like London, Paris, and other popular travel destinations. I mean travel to some places in the Middle East, where they can get a good taste for what it means to be a woman or homosexual in some of those cultures. Places in China outside the obvious tourist destinations like Singapore or Beijing, where they can see what it's like to be non-Chinese in a country where human rights are still radically different than what they're used to. Places around several of the South American countries, where to be "homeless" means "homeless" in its truest sense...no government assistance whatsoever. Places in Africa, like Botswana which has some of the highest incidences of HIV/AIDS in the world, and see what its like for people to live in those circumstances.
People in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere really ought to come to grasp with these things and realize that in comparison, quibbling over "race differences" in our own countries is asnine.
"Race"...as if we're REALLY composed of different "races" in the first place. Get real, people...we're all the same race, just different colors and shapes. Get over yourselves.
Point of fact:
Racism exists in every corner of the world, without exception. Period. It's a human behavioral trait even though we, as an "intelligent species" should know better.
Also point of fact:
"Hispanic" means a person of Latin American descent. Remember, the first people from Europe to the New World were those from Spain and Portugal..."Hispania", or the Iberian Peninsula. Hispanics of many flavors thus resemble many of the indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America because they have a common genetic heritage due to the intermingling of these peoples.
Another fascinating point of fact:
Racism exists even within individual cultural circles of peoples. For example, people in the United States make a big deal about racism between Mexicans and white people. Well, the news flash for them is that there is racism prevalent in Mexico between dark skinned Mexicans and light skinned Mexicans. Yet, they're "Mexicans", by culture, nation, and shared genetic background.
Personally, it's my belief that a great many people would do well to actually spend some time traveling to other countries and seeing what life and people are really like elsewhere. It's a real eye opener.
And I don't mean to touristy places like London, Paris, and other popular travel destinations. I mean travel to some places in the Middle East, where they can get a good taste for what it means to be a woman or homosexual in some of those cultures. Places in China outside the obvious tourist destinations like Singapore or Beijing, where they can see what it's like to be non-Chinese in a country where human rights are still radically different than what they're used to. Places around several of the South American countries, where to be "homeless" means "homeless" in its truest sense...no government assistance whatsoever. Places in Africa, like Botswana which has some of the highest incidences of HIV/AIDS in the world, and see what its like for people to live in those circumstances.
People in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere really ought to come to grasp with these things and realize that in comparison, quibbling over "race differences" in our own countries is asnine.
"Race"...as if we're REALLY composed of different "races" in the first place. Get real, people...we're all the same race, just different colors and shapes. Get over yourselves.
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Excellent analysis chief petty officer. I'm sure you had experience as being in the Navy and going to Ports O'Call that weren't on the scenic tour for most people and you being an American as it obvious stranger to the Middle East and to some parts of Southeast Asia I'm sure you experience racism first-hand because of them not seeing many white people or just because you're American. Thank you for your overall analysis.
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MSG Stan Hutchison
Pretty well said.
My wife is from the Navajo reservation in Arizona. As far as she knew, she was 100% Navajo. For fun, she got a DNA test. Come to find out, she has DNA links to Central and South America as well as Inuit (Eskimo) and Yupik (Siberian native). However, I think this is very common among most Native Americans.
As to the prejudice, it is evident almost everywhere we go from Flagstaff, AZ to Rapid City, SD, to Spokane, WA.
Things are getting better, but very, very slowly.
My wife is from the Navajo reservation in Arizona. As far as she knew, she was 100% Navajo. For fun, she got a DNA test. Come to find out, she has DNA links to Central and South America as well as Inuit (Eskimo) and Yupik (Siberian native). However, I think this is very common among most Native Americans.
As to the prejudice, it is evident almost everywhere we go from Flagstaff, AZ to Rapid City, SD, to Spokane, WA.
Things are getting better, but very, very slowly.
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Supreme Court rules Indigenous residential schools documents can be destroyed
The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed a federal government attempt to stop the destruction of records about how individual residential school survivors were treated and in many cases abused.
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In many areas, it's not better in the United States. Indian children are still being stolen from their families and tribes, to adopt out to white families. The two groups of people who are most likely to be shot by police are black men and American Indian men. Go to any reservation and tell me how good the Indians have it. Talk to people around the reservation and it won't take you long to figure out that the discrimination occurs here, too.
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MSG Stan Hutchison
There are ongoing court cases addressing this, whether a child should be removed from their cultural environment or not.
Also, we must keep in mind, the vast amount of human smuggling going on in reservations around the country. Young women and sometimes boys are grabbed up, taken to large cities, and forced into the sex trade. Much of this is drug related, as Meth is a widespread problem.
Bottom line; we do not treat our citizens of color in a proper manner.
Also, we must keep in mind, the vast amount of human smuggling going on in reservations around the country. Young women and sometimes boys are grabbed up, taken to large cities, and forced into the sex trade. Much of this is drug related, as Meth is a widespread problem.
Bottom line; we do not treat our citizens of color in a proper manner.
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Supreme Court rules Indigenous residential schools documents can be destroyed
The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed a federal government attempt to stop the destruction of records about how individual residential school survivors were treated and in many cases abused.
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Capt Gregory Prickett
LTC (Join to see) - I don't know how it was in Canada, but my grandfather was taken from his family and the rez in Wisconsin, sent to an Indian School 800 miles away, and when he completed the school, they wouldn't let him return home. Instead, they sent him to work for the Indian Service at the Kiowa Agency in Oklahoma. The motto of the Indian Schools was "Kill the Indian, Save the Man."
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Capt Gregory Prickett - similar to what they set up here to take the Savage out of the Indian. I'm sorry that you have a direct descendant that had this problem as well. Now in Canada, social workers haven't changed if you have a white family with their kid running amok in the front yard most likely social workers won't do anything but if the same thing happens with a native family, the social workers are over at the house looking for signs of neglect assuming that the parents drink and are too messed up to take care of their kids and they will then assign them to Foster care that in some instances leads them to them being murdered in a halfway house. It happened here last year in Alberta.
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