Racism Against Indigenous Cultures

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Racism Against Indigenous Cultures
The institutional racism that breeds violence targeting minority communities is necessary for any particular race to exist in America mainly because it was socially established and founded on white supremacy. White-Black hierarchies are very much a part of American racial imagination. When considering the white, red, and black trio in the United States, race becomes more complicated. Racism is a falsely fabricated social injustice with deeply rooted suppositions concerning individuals and their comparative social value mainly enforced to validate inequalities in resource distribution. Stereotyping persons and communities as “different” produce social hierarchies that signify the foundation of oppression. Consequently, several negative stereotypes linked with Indigenous persons comprise suppositions on their prevalence and reasons for drug and alcohol abuse, redundancy, and violence. One of the prevalent and mainly damaging portrayals is that Indigenous persons are enthusiastic wards of the state who are reliant on others and eventually better off when the federal government supervises their affairs. Hence this demeans the independence of Indigenous persons and their legal right to become self-determining. It also harms the self-notion of innumerable generations of persons who regrettably sometimes internalize such belittling stereotypes. Thus, this anti-Indigenous racism is portrayed in various forms, such as stereotyping, stigmatization, violence, and structural racism, which this paper discusses in length.
It is increasingly essential to contextualize the history of racial discrimination among indigenous populations in different areas of the world. The forced relocation of Aboriginals from their houses is a practice that has recently been recognized in Australia, Canada, and the United States as harmful and discriminatory. Mixed-race Aboriginal children in Australia were the main target of the practice; they were taken away from their parents without their will and placed in adoptive white families. Most of the time, these kids grew up unaware that they were actually partially Aboriginal. They are now referred to as the “Stolen Generation.” Indigenous children were transported to the infamous schools across the United States and Canada, which lasted well into the 20th century’s closing years. Language, religion, and cultural norms were frequently made fun of. Native language use was strictly prohibited and frequently punished physically in order to coerce an Indian child who refused to learn proper English pronunciation. Contact with family members was frequently forbidden or discouraged. In the worst cases, children were informed that their parents had passed away and that they had nowhere else to go; conversely, families were informed that their younger generations had passed away to deter parental visits. In an ironic twist, these myths occasionally came true: there were instances where kids did flee in the middle of winter, wearing nothing but their pajamas and attempting to find their way back home. Since their parents were never able to locate them, it is now believed that they died...