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    This lecture‚ about the history of how Australia’s colonisation‚ has affected the Aboriginal people‚ was quite disturbing to listen to. I felt distressed‚ hearing how Aboriginals were systematically oppressed‚ especially children torn away from their families and refused any interaction with their family‚ language and culture. Personally‚ I find it hard to compare this injustice to my life and feel any example would fall short. The only time that comes to mind‚ is when I moved from Australia to Canada

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    the Britannica Encyclopedia article “Jim Jones‚” these members belonged to a cult known as the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones‚ who was responsible for ordering the members to suicide. According to an article “Why Do People Join Cults?” by Adrian Furnham‚ Ph.D.‚ a cult is a group with “powerful and exclusive dedication and devotion to an explicit person or creed‚” with a goal to “reprogramming the way people see the world” (Furnham). In summary‚ a cult‚ as explained in “Cult Influence & Persuasion Tactics”

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    Throughout American history‚ there have been groups of people that have been denied something. African American people were treated like slaves and denied all rights. At one point a U.S. Supreme court case ruled Black people as property. They had no rights. Only some people saw this as wrong. They were abolitionists and they wanted the immediate removal of slavery. Some people were participated in the Underground railroad‚ people who gave their help to others trying to escape slavery. It was called

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    Currently‚ racially mixed people experience difficult and often awkward situations involving their identity. These experiences can cause them harm as they question their identity or cause them emotional distress. In Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves‚ Evelyn Alsultany talks about her experiences about being a racially mixed person in her day-to-day life. In 50 Experiences of Racially Mixed People‚ Maria Root explains fifty different experiences or questions racially mixed people experience. Both of

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    To often then not‚ people in the world today will look at the cause of what they are doing instead of how they are doing it or the effects that this cause could have on others. They look at the rewards of the end goal but do not account for everything that one has to do to reach that goal. People get set in their beliefs and do not want to change their ways‚ and in the book Things Fall Apart‚ you can clearly see how people get set in their ways. Two concepts from the book Cosmopolitanism‚ are the

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    Since European colonisation in 1788‚ Indigenous people have been treated as second class citizens by the Australian Government. Furthermore‚ Indigenous Australians have struggled with land rights and in numerous other ways in Australian history. The lack of Indigenous rights was most evident before Federation in 1901.They slowly began to gain rights after Federation. The most significant changes were after the 1967 referendum‚ which aimed to increase indigenous equality‚ following. Historical evidence

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    black people. One that really stands out is "If you want to hide something from a black person hide it in a book" which the white man is trying to call us African Americans illiterate. Which is ignorant is so many type of ways. But yet we do nothing more to make that statement false by not being educated‚ well organized and full of wisdom. Years ago‚ when slavery was in its actions African Americans where always thought of as less. White people came up with the assumption that black people where

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    Oscar Wilde portrayed in his writing that: “It is only shallow people who judge by appearance. The true mystery of the world is the visible‚ not the invisible” (qtd in Davis 1). All humans have all been made uniquely. Which is why we all don’t have the appearance. But currently‚ the idea of having a “picture perfect” shape and look is one of the problems women and men alike deal with. Some want to get thinner‚ some want the ideal thickness everyone has skewed views of what the define beautiful to

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    Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. Assimilation will also be discussed as the main factor in transforming the lives of native children. Further‚ the content of my essay will tackle the different negative consequences of Assimilation and racism on the children and on the people responsible for their growth. Research Question How does the education system contributed to the continuing existence of the gap in education and performance between the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in the Canadian society

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    Why did the whites not like colored people? when they havent done anything to them. Many whites did not like them due to them wanting to have a strong feeling of superiority. Also a feeling that they will change their traditions that they worked for a really time. It was really unfair how they treated them the whites treated them like dogs. Also they couldt even be in the same restaurant with them if theyre some kind of criminals. Many colored people tried everything that they could just to get

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