"Canadian aboriginals are treated as second-class citizens, and are often characterized by whites as alcoholic or drug-addicted welfare parasites."
It's funny how this attitude is just as prevalent over here in the US, and it pans true throughout the country, form Upstate NY, to Florida, to the Plains and certainly California and the Northwest. I've had the pleasure of meeting a number of Native American rights activists at a conference and every one of them had to deal with this sort of attitude...
There's a perception here, of Canada being this city on a hill, this holy grail of tolerance where one can escape to. We have a long standing tradition of it too, from the Native American flight, to Underground Railroad, to the draft resisters and now the gays. I must confess to being one of those gays looking to immigrate ASAP, and reading this served as a bucket of ice water. Not in a bad sense , but just showing that it's not necessarily paradise. Thank you.
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Date: 2008-04-29 06:42 am (UTC)It's funny how this attitude is just as prevalent over here in the US, and it pans true throughout the country, form Upstate NY, to Florida, to the Plains and certainly California and the Northwest. I've had the pleasure of meeting a number of Native American rights activists at a conference and every one of them had to deal with this sort of attitude...
There's a perception here, of Canada being this city on a hill, this holy grail of tolerance where one can escape to. We have a long standing tradition of it too, from the Native American flight, to Underground Railroad, to the draft resisters and now the gays. I must confess to being one of those gays looking to immigrate ASAP, and reading this served as a bucket of ice water. Not in a bad sense , but just showing that it's not necessarily paradise. Thank you.