By ahnationtalk on March 27, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 27, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 27, 2024
By pmnationtalk on March 27, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 27, 2024
You can use your smart phone to browse stories in the comfort of your hand. Simply browse this site on your smart phone.
Using an RSS Reader you can access most recent stories and other feeds posted on this network.
SNetwork Recent Storiesby ahnationtalk on January 22, 2020382 Views
January 22, 2020
As a newcomer to Canada in 2012, Victoria Coun. Sharmarke Dubow’s first impression of Indigenous people was coloured by other people’s stereotypes.
On his first day in the country, he saw a person begging on the street. It didn’t match the image he had of Canada as a country where people enjoy a high quality of life.
Orientation videos during his immigration process had shown bustling cities with tall buildings, new technology and a busy workforce.
When Dubow asked about the person on the street, his relative told him the person was “a poor Aboriginal.”
Dubow didn’t know about Indigenous people in Canada. Nothing in the orientation videos taught him about the country’s colonial history or the ways in which that past continues to shape the lives of Indigenous people.
Clients: | No Clients |
---|
Categories: | Mainstream Aboriginal Related News, Politics |
---|
This article comes from NationTalk:
https://nationtalk.ca
The permalink for this story is:
https://nationtalk.ca/story/newcomers-share-shock-of-learning-about-indigenous-realities-times-colonist
Comments are closed.