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Found a source for the text book.
If you know anything about the Residency Schools, you'll know that Canada is actually behind the US on this issue. A few years ago, someone shared on reddit their kid taking home an assignment asking the student to list all the positive things that Residency Schools did for First Nation kids.
We recently had an issue where students were taught slaves in the US were taught valuable job skills also a teacher was asked to teach both sides of the holocaust
The south?
Must be. I was just thinking that I'm confident that my kids will learn things differently when they get to American History than I did back in the early 2000s, and for the best. I'm just glad I have a couple of years, because my seven year old is probably getting tired of me describing things as "complicated."
From personal experience, going to a school in a liberal, northern state, we just speed ran certain parts, but at least they didn't deny bad stuff happened. I've heard that if you tour a southern plantation, the tour is very different if the group is all white verses if there's at least one Black person.
What the fuck? I always thought Canada was like Australia, but fuck that’s next level eh.
Even when I was in primary school so many decades ago, I was learning about the terrible shit we did to Aboriginal people.
Hmm depends what you mean by "like Australia". Australia were brutal about how they treated their indigenous population. Straight up to kidnapping their kids and trying to breed them out of existence, last century...
I don't know how they teach it today but I know they still have a long way to go to making things better.
New Zealand on the other hand, while doing some fucked up shit of their own, have gone a long way to teaching the atrocious treatment of their indigenous people and try very hard to embrace and grow the culture of it within the worst populace. Might be a better comparison?
I always thought Canada was like Australia in that it had done terrible things but was working on fixing them. To hear they're still teaching that it was beneficial shows that they're really far behind on the path to reconciliation.
NZ is good and a bit ahead of Australia, but they're also actively regressing on this front at the moment so huge loss of kudos to them there.
That's not representative of how we're all taught in Canada. Where I'm from, we're taught in school exactly how awful residential schools were, the people responsible for it, and the lasting damage it has caused our Indigenous people. It's not something that's brushed aside like it wasn't an atrocity, and many members of our community are still affected by it.
Yeah I was confused as well. I once was seriously considering moving to Australia, and so I visited for a month first to make sure it was definitely right for me. The amount of casual racism I noticed in the first day alone put me off for life.
They are. Australia put aborginal kids in residence schools. Watch the movie "Rabbit Proof Fence".
Talking about comparing current efforts to reconcile, not past atrocities.
I assume you're referring to the Stolen Generations.
That's one thing yes.
Its a balance, the government is trying to push it pretty hard - but thats made some racist areas even more racist in response.
Though Hudson bay company is shutting down and we can all celebrate that
Edit: I just remembered most reserves dont even have fiber internet though it would cost pennies to connect to the existing lines. Yeah no the systematic racism is very much still here.