The forcible separation of some 150,000 children from their families over more than 100 years was an attempt to end the existence of Aboriginals as distinct legal, social, cultural, religious and racial entities in Canada, the long-awaited report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada concluded.
For over a century, the central goals of Canada's Aboriginal policy were to eliminate Aboriginal governments; ignore Aboriginal rights; terminate the Treaties; and, through a process of assimilation, cause Aboriginal peoples to cease to exist as distinct legal, social, cultural, religious and racial entities in Canada.
"For over a century, the central goals of Canada's Aboriginal policy were to eliminate Aboriginal governments; ignore Aboriginal rights; terminate the treaties; and, through a process of assimilation, cause Aboriginal peoples to cease to exist as distinct legal, social, cultural, religious and racial entities in Canada," the opening paragraph states.
This varies across the different mining entities, and racial groups and residential areas (15).
The first step is to reverse the process of demonization that underlies the narrative: that a certain ethnic, religious, racial, national, business, or governmental entity is wholly devoid of human qualities -- that it is naturally threatening and hostile.
For more than a century, historians and linguists have debated whether the Jewish people are a racial group, a cultural and religious entity, or something else.
Interestingly, there were no differences across nations or across ethnic or racial groups in the impact of an entity theory on the desire for vengeance, suggesting that implicit theories of personality may influence the motivation to respond aggressively in many contexts.
Rather than asking these entities to provide data on all 63 racial permutations, the budget office said it would require a breakdown of a smaller set of categories.
Both rely on essentializing racial and ethnic groups, blurring them into simple, monolithic entities, instead of acknowledging that there's as much variety among Muslims and Latinos and black people as there is among white people.
For all their failings, the Communists were the only political entity in South Africa for years that talked about racial equality.
