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Originally Posted by Vulcan
You don't think that stealing parts of their culture and turning it into a comic book level of disrespect has something to do with their self esteem problems leading to their other problems.
Our culture has been so pervasive in putting down FNs people that we don't even recognize it when it's put in front of us.
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Yep, it's all our fault. Never mind that I've never said or done anything to put down a native person. Nor has anyone I've ever met. Or their parents. It's always somebody else's fault.
Disrespecting cultures on a comic book level is not a uniquely native situation. Every culture takes its share of abuse. I can tell you I've made about a billion more Asian driving jokes than Native jokes. Canada basically used Japanese workers as slaves to build our railroads. Yet I don't see crowds of Japanese guys chain smoking outside bars in downtown Lethbridge at noon on a Wednesday. Why is that? If I were to guess, I'd say it has NOTHING to do with the football team in DC being called the Redskins.