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Originally Posted by Daoust
Also in Canada, we spend a heck of a lot of time and money trying to placate our Native Americans. Unlike our American cousins, we chose a relatively humane method of trying to get rid of them, by putting them in reserves all over the North. Our treatment of them has been less than respectable, to be fair. I think there is still a fair amount of dislike felt by most Canadians toward the Natives. I think we get upset because we think our government has given them every opportunity to be 'like us' but they haven't so we get upset. Who knows...
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I'm not sure if they ever wanted to be 'like us'. but be that as it may it is disturbing to see the ongoing degenerative cycle with the native people. I heard that there is a very real problem with alcohol, that white folks can't grasp intellectually. Such a bad problem that there are areas where it is illegal to have (or sell) alcohol. Being of chinese ethnicity, which may make me a semi-authority on the matter due to a shared paleo-siberian genetic heritage, I know that alcohol can affect me greatly. This is due to the physiological response to an inability to metabolize alcohol (apologies for my generalities here... i'm not an expert).
So there may be more to it than lack of desire/motivation to be 'Like us'.