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I'm sorry, but many of these ideas are nonsensical and ill-defined. > Integration of aboriginal culture into the Canadian education system. No thank you. I pr
by hervature 5y ago
I'm sorry, but many of these ideas are nonsensical and ill-defined.
> Integration of aboriginal culture into the Canadian education system.
No thank you. I prefer the education to be secular. At this point, we have many more people from other cultures. So many cultures that integrating all of them into the education system becomes contradictory. The issues that natives have with the education system have nothing to do with the content. In fact, having "aboriginal first" education on reservations might seem like a feel-good idea that everyone wants but actually sets them up for failure by presenting a huge barrier to entry when going to normal universities. The exact "whitewashing" barrier you are talking about.
> Including traditional aboriginal health practises into the health care system [...] they die because they don't trust the Canadian health care system.
Sure, as long as the treatment being offered has at least an iota of scientific evidence of efficacy.
> Adding Ojibway as an official language (either federally, or mandate the provinces provide services in the predominant native language of that territory).
Just sounds ridiculous when Ojibway is not even the most spoken aboriginal language. Less than 1% of the population
is a has an aboriginal language as a mother tongue. Making any of these languages as an official language is just an extremely costly virtue signal that doesn't actually help anyone.
> Guaranteed seats in the Canadian parliament.
Guaranteeing seats, for any group of people, is always a bad idea and should not even be entertained. Look at the demographics [1]. 5% by population but have something closer to 6% of federal districts where they have the plurality of the vote. Seems like the system is working.
> and in my likely unpopular opinion, a reexamination of reparation.
Funnily enough, that's the only thing I agree with you. Finding a way forward via their input and not excluding them by chatting on an online forum.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_in_Canada#Urban_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_in_Canada#U...
- neom 5y agoWhile I don't agree with your perspectives, I'm certainly not going to call them nonsense or ill defined. I would not expect you to write a novel on hackernews laying out the full nuances of your thoughts, and I'd appreciate you'd extend me the same courtesy. Two nitpicks in your reply if I may. I would not propose on-reserve of first nations universities or anything like that, I would propose a total re-architecture of what you called 'normal' universities in collaboration with the first nations peoples. I mentioned Ojibway because in the discussion around this, there has been a feeling in the first nations that a push towards a wider adoption of Ojibway might be acceptable. However, I couched it in the event that was not the case, hence suggesting giving the power to the provinces.
- rohitb91 5y agoWell said But even the reparations argument in my opinion is ridiculous given how much is already given in tax and other social benefits and the gross mishandling over and over of funds by chiefs.
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