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Old 01-03-2013, 07:56 PM   #6
Saya
 
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Originally Posted by Despanan View Post
Whoa, really?

The American attitude towards natives is very different: to the point where we kinda think they're magic or something. Many Americans see it as a mark of pride to have native Americans in their family, and most ten year old boys will claim it whether it's true or not.

Of course, that may be just the east coast, where there aren't any natives. I hear there's more racism out west, where some tribes still live, but I'm not sure, having never been there myself.

In any case, that law is fuckin' crazy yo.

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.
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