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Taking children by force, confining them in education centers, and violently coercing them to assimilate is counterproductive. A third of them went through the
by Canada 8y ago
Taking children by force, confining them in education centers, and violently coercing them to assimilate is counterproductive. A third of them went through the residential school system. The land was fully conquered well before the state setup that system. All it's done is produce generation after generation with very good reason to hate and fear the culture that abused them. Not to mention the related damage going through that does. Been to a few reserves before, and what I see mostly isn't good. I consider it a failure because had governments just done nothing and let them be for the last 100 years we'd surely have the same dominant culture now in place regardless. So much harm done for nothing.
- gdhbcc 8y agoIs there data to support that idea though? Or is it just your gut feeling based on popular opinion?