On a related note, do any other countries actively celebrate their historic genocides? My understanding is Canada and Australia try to pretend it didn’t happen, and most of the others killed theirs indigenous people long before anyone cared
We still have Australia day on invasion day, there’s a decent push to change it, but the general concensus is problems of the past belong to people of the past and you can’t rectify permanent history by creating new inequalities when there’s a percentage of the entire population that still struggle with necessities.
Canada has actually been doing quite a lot of awareness in the past few years. There was the truth and reconciliation commission and there’s a nationally recognized day. Indigenous education has also been integrated into school curriculums in some provinces.
It’s not a ton and can never make up for what happened, but it’s far ahead of Australia who has done nothing from what I can tell.
We’ve just started celebrating Truth and Reconciliation Day on Sept 30 in Canada but I don’t think anyone but the First Nations and the try hard use the day for any kind of truth or reconciliation. I played video games all day myself. Not sure if the day itself had any historical significance, we still celebrate Thanksgiving in October.
Fuck yeah.
On a related note, do any other countries actively celebrate their historic genocides? My understanding is Canada and Australia try to pretend it didn’t happen, and most of the others killed theirs indigenous people long before anyone cared
We still have Australia day on invasion day, there’s a decent push to change it, but the general concensus is problems of the past belong to people of the past and you can’t rectify permanent history by creating new inequalities when there’s a percentage of the entire population that still struggle with necessities.
The US also has multiple holidays where we just changed the name and the focus, and quietly pretend the South doesn’t still celebrate them
As long as the government is doing something to help those who are still suffering the consequences of that pasttime, we’re good, right?
Right?
Their position is no different to any destitute citizen, raise them all together.
…or is that raze them all together…
I can’t remember, is Authoritarianism heads? Or tails?
Oh.
Canada has actually been doing quite a lot of awareness in the past few years. There was the truth and reconciliation commission and there’s a nationally recognized day. Indigenous education has also been integrated into school curriculums in some provinces.
It’s not a ton and can never make up for what happened, but it’s far ahead of Australia who has done nothing from what I can tell.
We’ve just started celebrating Truth and Reconciliation Day on Sept 30 in Canada but I don’t think anyone but the First Nations and the try hard use the day for any kind of truth or reconciliation. I played video games all day myself. Not sure if the day itself had any historical significance, we still celebrate Thanksgiving in October.
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