Canada kicks racist butt!

[Joelcool7]

Khuutra said:

Chairman-Mao said:

Khuutra said:

Joelcool, I suggest taking a course on the cultural history of Canada starting in the early 1800's; you are in desperate need of perspective concerning racism in your own country.

Canada is a scary place when you know even a sliver of what there is to know.

Please enlighten us all knowing one. I'm ready to learn, grasshopper.

I apologize if I came across condescendingly. I will try to amend my tone.

I say take a class or read a book exactly because I don't have the perspective to lay out an appropriately-lengthed diatribe about racism and its current and past states in Canada.

Canada was no better to its aboriginals than Jackson was, and that form of oppression (and cultural annihilation) persisted into the 20's, with aboriginal children being relocated away form their families specifically to receive a white education and be ingrained in white culture.

Racism exists now just as badly as it does in the States, but it's often in comparatively insidious ways. A general lack of racial and cultural integration (in comparison to the states) has resulted in the nursing of racial hatreds without the expanded perspective that is the eventual consequence of integration.

Canada is just as much a country of immigrants as the US is (I am one of them) but it lacks the cultural structure that the US has; hatreds are more easily hidden and ignored because this is a generally segregated society, but the racism is there, and it's real, and it's seething.

Apology accepted and sorry for my harsh tone in my reply. I just hate when American's tell me they know more about my country then I do. Its really arrogant.

As for how Canada treated its aborigionals. Canada as a nation was founded on July 1, 1867. As a country Canada has always treated its aborigionals and the blacks with respect and dignity. All races have since Canada's founding been welcomed and treated fairly well. Now yes during WWII we treated the Japanese Canadians terribly and in some cases have treated officially different races differently. However for the most part as a country we have treated all races as equally as possible.

Now when we go back to upper and lower Canada as colonies of the British empire it is a bit different. Also if we go further back before any form of unified Government existed it was terrible. But keep in mind this was the exact same as the US, why you ask? Because we were all under British rule.

Now history lesson Brigadier General Custer worked for who exactly? The US Government in the mid 1800's. The US Government as an entity supported massive slaughter of native Americans. 1876 the battle of little big horn occured in which the american government tried to pretty much ethnically cleanse the natives from the area.

Now yes Canada has existed since well dawn of man. Under the name Canada since around 1523 named by the french. However what the french and the english did to the natives up until Canada's formation can't really be held against Canada as a soveirgn state and country.