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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I think you have it backwards, personally. It’s not up to them to integrate into “majority society,” whatever that is, it’s up to Canadians to start recognising that they’re part of society, and their traditions are Canadian traditions no less than whatever you feel is “Canadian.”
The push for aboriginal people to assimilate is maybe in itself a longstanding European Canadian tradition, but not one that has a lot for us to be proud of. It has led to a lot poor decisions.
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The only people left making poor decisions are the Aboriginal themselves. And I'm not saying assimilate, that's the word you chose to use, I said integrate, inject themselves into alongside, not all out conform to. Their choice to remain completely atypical of everyone else is holding them back, and it's being done at the blame of the rest of us, instead of accounting for their own well being