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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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That is pretty disturbing that in this day and age any person should be mistreated like that by anyone. Seems that section of History from Canada has been well hidden. It appears the past for these people had a lot of the same problems with this mistreatment though esp as in the 1800s within the US. Its a shame Your wife or any other person should end up being subjected to this type of ignorant behavior by others. Seems ignorance and prejudice has no expiration date.
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