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> Lots of similarities, actually. Both systems were designed to destroy a culture seen as backwards by the powers that be. Yeah, except one occurred in the pas
by Lionsion 8y ago
> Lots of similarities, actually. Both systems were designed to destroy a culture seen as backwards by the powers that be.
Yeah, except one occurred in the past and is now condemned; the other is a present, newly-created reality.
- danharaj 8y agoThe last school was closed in the far distant year of 1996. Do you really think Canada in 2018 is that far removed from 1996? What exactly happened in that intervening period that will prevent such an atrocity in the future?
- Lionsion 8y ago> The last school was closed in the far distant year of 1996. Do you really think Canada in 2018 is that far removed from 1996? What exactly happened in that intervening period that will prevent such an atrocity in the future? Do you think the school in 1996 was doing the same things as the schools in, say, 1896? Don't you think it's more reasonable to see the 1996 closure as the end (or near the end) of a longer, continuous process, not a binary state change? Unsurprisingly, things are more complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system#Self-governance_and_school_closure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...
- rubatuga 8y agoMaybe the fact that students learn about how horrible it was as part of the curriculum during middle school? Also, the school in 1996 was nothing like the schools in the early 1900s, why would you use that as support?