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Originally Posted by spuzzum
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/politics...vors-1.4342462
$35 - $50k per person for being placed in non-aboriginal homes during the 60s causing a loss of their identity and culture.
I'm really tired of settlements, land claims, agreements from the 1800s. We're all Canadians, plain and simple. No further special treatment for X group over Y group.
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We're talking about kids who were taken from their parents against their will in order to try to dissociate from their families and culture. Abuse of every variety has been documented in these fostering arrangements. It doesn't sound like special treatment to me.
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Originally Posted by spuzzum
I could go on and on about this settlement, but isn't this like putting a Dutch kid into a German home or a Catholic into an atheist home?
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Except you can't talk to your parents who are still alive, sacred objects of your culture are forbidden, and you get punished for speaking your native language. So, no, not like the example you provided at all.
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Originally Posted by spuzzum
Some kids have a very rough go and it's great our society has a social system in place. In 3rd world countries, we'd be homeless. This just grinds my gears more than the other threads.
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You're clueless if you think that forced fostering of native children is part and parcel of a normal, functioning social support system.