"The news portrayed Indigenous peoples as having a trio of all-encompassing negative qualities: depravity, innate inferiority and a stubborn resistance to progress. The rule of three is 'the reasoning that engendered the creation of the treaty system and residential schools.'" More: "Dominant society continues to portray Indigenous peoples as dangerous, though nowadays the risk is more commonly framed by mainstream media using what Callison calls a 'deficit model.' That framing assumes that it's OK to control Indigenous peoples by deeming them unable to take care of themselves, their land and their children." Not only should we as Canadians take note, I would urge that people around the world look at the impact the repression of minority populations has not only on that population but on the oppressors themselves, as it twists their media, education system and national identity into something unrecognizable as just, moral or proper.
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