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Friendly neighbourhood benevolant dictator
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I'm an enigma wrapped in a contradiction. I'm dyslexic, yet love books.
I'm Canadian born and bred, but have a really bad habit of moving to exotic locals like Mexico.
I'm going to be over-educated and unemployable and then will end up being a religious recluse in a cave.
I drink too much caffeine and eat too many suckers.
I love religions and learning about cultures.
I coach debate. I love debate. I live debate.
I will be the cause of two benevolent dictators, and I apologize in advance. If I stay nice to them they'll give me Mexico I hope.
I love Something Corporate, Rascal Flatts, Juanes and Daddy Yankee.
I speak three languages.
I eat with chopsticks and make everything a taquito.
I once blew up part of our science lab.
I try to pray 5 times a day.
I love to cook.
I download too much shit online.
I'm extremely hyper, tend to talk too much.
I love tea.
I once ate a worm on a dare. Then I ate a spider and a grasshopper for money.
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equivoque: ayiman: Canada, you need to look deep within yourself. This is what Natives in Canada deal with daily.  Anti-Native racism is so normalized that, while it would be considered impolitic for the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba to allow this Braydon fellow to continue being their youth wing president, this is representative of the ugly face of Canadian populism. Why is this so persistent? Even if it can be easily discounted and dismissed with only a modicum of research? The legitimization of settlement is through a narrative of conquest and destiny.  Without which, the naked land grab and theft that constituted settlement and laws like the Dominion Lands Act could not be so easily justified. and wherever there is a narrative of conquest and destiny, there has to be noble victors and a vile and inscrutable enemy to pit them against.  Losers, fated to succumb to inevitable domination at the hands of indefatigable settlers marching inexorably forward under banners of progress.  Losers who have always been cast in shadows and existing outside of linear time, moribund savages described according to essentialisms of primitivity and stubborn resistance to prescribed betterment. Canada needs its colonial bogeymen, and Canada will always invent new roles for them to play.   Roles like “freeloading indians.” But in an age where the leaseholder fails to uphold its obligation according to the terms of the lease, one which has made the leaseholder rich beyond its wildest dreams, who is really the freeloader?  oh, and you can let Braydon Maz know just how wrong he is here. We’ve got a lot of work to do to pry settlers from their cherished racism. Racism against Natives is so normalized in Canada that, despite having some FAINT memories of learning about Coast Salish peoples in grade 3, by the time I was a young adult these kinds of jokes, and comments about “freeloading, alcoholic Natives” didn’t turn my head. It’s largely thanks to eye-openers on tumblr, rather than any role models in my personal life speaking to me (sadly), that I’ve begun to unpack that part of my privileged white upbringing. Many elements of education fail Canadian students — French education, for one, and DEFINITELY education about first peoples. That being said, the education system in many provinces are great reformed to cater to aboriginal students.  It is mandatory in saskatchewan to teach treaty education and it is built into each grade.  LIP (Learning improvement plans) are built specifically for aboriginal students.  Teachers can teach it, but when students are transient it is the student who suffers.   Yes, the majority of teachers are white, but we’re doing the best we can with the resources we have.

equivoque:

ayiman:

Canada, you need to look deep within yourself.

This is what Natives in Canada deal with daily.  Anti-Native racism is so normalized that, while it would be considered impolitic for the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba to allow this Braydon fellow to continue being their youth wing president, this is representative of the ugly face of Canadian populism.

Why is this so persistent? Even if it can be easily discounted and dismissed with only a modicum of research?

The legitimization of settlement is through a narrative of conquest and destiny.  Without which, the naked land grab and theft that constituted settlement and laws like the Dominion Lands Act could not be so easily justified.

and wherever there is a narrative of conquest and destiny, there has to be noble victors and a vile and inscrutable enemy to pit them against.  Losers, fated to succumb to inevitable domination at the hands of indefatigable settlers marching inexorably forward under banners of progress.  Losers who have always been cast in shadows and existing outside of linear time, moribund savages described according to essentialisms of primitivity and stubborn resistance to prescribed betterment.

Canada needs its colonial bogeymen, and Canada will always invent new roles for them to play.  

Roles like “freeloading indians.”

But in an age where the leaseholder fails to uphold its obligation according to the terms of the lease, one which has made the leaseholder rich beyond its wildest dreams, who is really the freeloader? 

oh, and you can let Braydon Maz know just how wrong he is here.

We’ve got a lot of work to do to pry settlers from their cherished racism.

Racism against Natives is so normalized in Canada that, despite having some FAINT memories of learning about Coast Salish peoples in grade 3, by the time I was a young adult these kinds of jokes, and comments about “freeloading, alcoholic Natives” didn’t turn my head. It’s largely thanks to eye-openers on tumblr, rather than any role models in my personal life speaking to me (sadly), that I’ve begun to unpack that part of my privileged white upbringing.

Many elements of education fail Canadian students — French education, for one, and DEFINITELY education about first peoples.

That being said, the education system in many provinces are great reformed to cater to aboriginal students. 

It is mandatory in saskatchewan to teach treaty education and it is built into each grade. 

LIP (Learning improvement plans) are built specifically for aboriginal students.  Teachers can teach it, but when students are transient it is the student who suffers.  

Yes, the majority of teachers are white, but we’re doing the best we can with the resources we have.

Source: ayiman

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