Why are people being so overly PC about this?
There were a few really good threads on reddit about some native people discussing the problems with the reserves and how children growing up amongst the drug and alcohol problems had little chance of getting through their education.
Why are we ignoring the rampant problems with native culture and just focussing on the positives? They have some great traditions, language, etc - but how about the overwhelming negative aspects of being on the reserve.
Maybe it's primitive thinking (as were a lot of things back then) that the children were forcibly removed from all their culture, but as Cliff has been saying - this doesn't seem malicious. People just thought assimilation was the only way the children wouldn't drift into the negatives.
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ech·o cham·ber
/ˈekō ˌCHāmbər/
noun
An environment in which a person encounters only beliefs or opinions that coincide with their own, so that their existing views are reinforced and alternative ideas are not considered.
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