ShaggySnacks

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12h ago

Cat Videos Really Should Be Considered An International Language

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ShaggySnacks @lemmy.myserv.one 1d ago
Man, this meme has become very relevant.

1d ago

Many were desensitized by the early, totally unmoderated internet.

Oh man, I remember being shown goatsee.

Edit: A colleague once sent me a copy meme of goatsee. I told them about the real photo and strongly discouraged them to see it. They saw it and had showed it everyone in their life.

Yeah, I have huge doubt that this law won't be used to crush any cultural diversity to make a mono culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system

Despite current views that might define the system of residential schools as racist or genocidal, many scholars contend that they were seen as progressive at the time, a form of state intervention.

The school system was created as a civilizing mission to isolate Indigenous children from the influence of their own culture and religion in order to assimilate them into the dominant Euro-Canadian culture.

During their stay many students were forced to assimilate to Euro-Canadian culture, losing their Indigenous identities and struggling to fit into both their own communities as well as Canadian society.

These acts assumed the inherent superiority of French and British ways, and the need for Indigenous peoples to become French or English speakers, Christians, and farmers.

In 1894, amendments to the Indian Act made attendance at a day school, if there was a day school on the reserve on which the child resided, compulsory for status Indian children between 7 and 16 years of age. The changes included a series of exemptions regarding school location, the health of the children and their prior completion of school examinations.[

The introduction of the Family Allowance Act in 1945 stipulated that school-aged children had to be enrolled in school for families to qualify for the "baby bonus", further coercing Indigenous parents into having their children attend.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission list three reasons behind the federal government's decision to establish residential schools.
Provide Aboriginal people with skills to participate in a market-based economy.
Further political assimilation, in hope that educated students would give up their status and not return to their reserves or families.
Schools were "engines of cultural and spiritual change" where "'savages' were to emerge as Christian 'white men'".