SOCIAL: ABORIGINAL RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS

In Canada there was an issue with the aboriginal people and sending them to residential school where they can be institutionalized so that they may forget their heritage. The colonizers wanted the indigenous people to assimilate into the, "Canadian," way. The aboriginals were treated with distain in these residential schools. There are numerous reports of sexual assault or even abuse by staff or employees of these schools. These residential schools are considered a violation of the Canadian Constitution. This is so because it is discriminatory. The colonizers in their attempt to assimilate these aboriginals were maintaining the social construct of, "white Canada." They did this through institutionalized racism ie. these residential schools. Even to this day aboriginals are being discriminated upon. This racism has affected them intergenerationally. These survivors and their decedents have less perceived opportunities in the community as they become, "drunks," or "addicts," in order to provide therapy to their racial pain. Furthermore, they have been displaced from the main areas which has caused them to experience some resentment.

With all of these considerations not all is bad though. Canada has made every effort to promote equality. This is done through affirmative action wherein aboriginals have certain rights which promote their success in society. I would like to define racisim herein as the discrimination against a persons culture or physical traits.