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polak · 11-30-2012, 02:20 PM

First Nations leadership are condoning their own oppression by refusing to give up reserves, corruptly spending federal funds and shunning those that choose to leave and start a new life off of their lands.

The reserves are colossal mess. Every single quality of life indicator is worse, on reserve then off. The mistreatment won't stop until they are abolished. Until that happens First Nations on reserves will continue to live a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Assimilation may sound wrong, but is 10000000x better then Segregation.

As for the "stealing" of land, well unfortunately that was the way the world worked until the last century. You can't really change the past. Reparation payments (I realize that is not what the OP is about, but a lot of the conversation in this thread is geared towards that issue) are absolutely stupid. No one benefits from them outside of the immediate short term. It makes the "guilty" party feel a bit better about their ancestors actions and gives the "victim" party funds that they usually don't have the resources or knowledge to invest properly and most will end up losing it anyways.

11-30-2012, 02:20 PM	#49
polak In the Sin Bin Join Date: Aug 2012 Exp:	First Nations leadership are condoning their own oppression by refusing to give up reserves, corruptly spending federal funds and shunning those that choose to leave and start a new life off of their lands. The reserves are colossal mess. Every single quality of life indicator is worse, on reserve then off. The mistreatment won't stop until they are abolished. Until that happens First Nations on reserves will continue to live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Assimilation may sound wrong, but is 10000000x better then Segregation. As for the "stealing" of land, well unfortunately that was the way the world worked until the last century. You can't really change the past. Reparation payments (I realize that is not what the OP is about, but a lot of the conversation in this thread is geared towards that issue) are absolutely stupid. No one benefits from them outside of the immediate short term. It makes the "guilty" party feel a bit better about their ancestors actions and gives the "victim" party funds that they usually don't have the resources or knowledge to invest properly and most will end up losing it anyways. Last edited by polak; 11-30-2012 at 02:24 PM.