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Old 01-03-2013, 08:13 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Saya View Post
There are still indigenous folk on the east coast. They suffered longer under colonialism, but they are still there.

That sentiment is in Canada as well, but as Versus said, it is a racist fetish. This also works to place them as anachronisms, people of the past and traditional ways long dead. There's a museum here where white settlers have their own room where you look for your family name to see when they might have arrived, and the aboriginal exhibits are in the same room as all the taxidermy animals and all the information says they are all dead.
Additionally, segregation is typically much worse then co-location as far as fostering racist attitudes.

But anyway. I went to that museum with Saya and hadn't noticed until she pointed it out.
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