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Originally Posted by llama64
Aboriginals is a culturally approved term, Indians is just plain incorrect. You could be talking about two distinct and unrelated cultural groups by using it.
Of course nobody has the political will to do anything! It's Canada! I hate to say it, but I think the culture of hand outs is directly related to our transitory democratic government. Everyone has a set term of a few years, which means problems can be passed on to future governments. All the people in power need to do is throw money at people till they are happy, retire and watch the process occur all over again. In some ways, a more static government might be benificial, but we all know where that goes.
Unfortunately, problems like this need to be fixed from the bottom up. Perhaps as a society we should start focussing on promoting more social activism and participation?
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The term aboriginal in my mind is absolutely not a culturally accepted term. It's meaning, basically "of origin", denotes cultural absolutism among the 100s of bands across this country.
As for everything else, we agree on something. However, it wouldn't be hard to for a majority government with a strong mandate to actually be able to initiate something quickly. I have a feeling that once good, meaningful solutions started coming about, the whole reserve system would fall apart quickly.
And of course there should be provisos in place to protect vulnerable bands from development vultures etc...
This isn't about making a "dirty problem" go away, it's about helping an impoverished, shackled people regain their culture and their pride.