The Coachella Valley Arabs changed their mascot to the mighty arabs and reduced the stereotypical features in their costume mascot, as if that changed the fact that they are using an ethnicity to represent a high school. Pekin High School Chinks, whose school is named after the Chinese city of Peking, changed their mascot to the dragons in 1980. (Simon) Non-Native American ethnic mascots are much less prevalent today, since there has been a stronger push to get rid of them. It is strange that certain ethnic groups are paramount to others. It has not been until somewhat recently that there has been outrage over indian mascots. Controversial mascots are not limited to ethnic groups. Freeburg High School’s mascot the midgets is just outright shocking. It all comes back to a short basketball player that played centuries ago. (The Associated Press) The Centralia Orphans are a high school who came up with their mascot in the 1940s. “They came out, they didn’t have the right uniforms, there was bad weather. They looked ragged in their torn uniforms,” said Reid Shipley. “A reporter made the comment that they look like a bunch of orphans, but they sure can play basketball.”("Centralia Orphans Win Unique Mascot Contest") These could be very offensive to people who have dwarfism or are orphans. Mascots like this do not celebrate their namesake in any way; they only mock them. When a school works hard to ensure that the mascot is honoring instead of mocking a tribe, beautiful things happen. “In April 2014, the Ute Indian Tribe recommitted its support for the use of the Ute name. In turn, the U has committed to increase recognition of the rich human history of our state and recognizing the many ways Native American tribes in Utah continue to strengthen our communities.” (“Ute History”) Florida State offers an elective entitled “History of the Seminoles and Southeastern Tribes, Pre-Contact to Present” (Culpepper). “The course — born in 2006, hatched right after the NCAA clamored about changing Native American mascots, conceived with input from the Seminole Tribe of Florida — doubles as epitome. It demonstrates the unusual bond between a 41,000-strong university way up in the Florida Panhandle and a 4,000-strong tribe that history shoved into the Everglades and below Lake Okeechobee and way down almost to Miami, some 400 miles from Room 208 of the HCB Classroom Building. It helps explain why, if Native American mascots keep ebbing in the United States through the 21st
The Coachella Valley Arabs changed their mascot to the mighty arabs and reduced the stereotypical features in their costume mascot, as if that changed the fact that they are using an ethnicity to represent a high school. Pekin High School Chinks, whose school is named after the Chinese city of Peking, changed their mascot to the dragons in 1980. (Simon) Non-Native American ethnic mascots are much less prevalent today, since there has been a stronger push to get rid of them. It is strange that certain ethnic groups are paramount to others. It has not been until somewhat recently that there has been outrage over indian mascots. Controversial mascots are not limited to ethnic groups. Freeburg High School’s mascot the midgets is just outright shocking. It all comes back to a short basketball player that played centuries ago. (The Associated Press) The Centralia Orphans are a high school who came up with their mascot in the 1940s. “They came out, they didn’t have the right uniforms, there was bad weather. They looked ragged in their torn uniforms,” said Reid Shipley. “A reporter made the comment that they look like a bunch of orphans, but they sure can play basketball.”("Centralia Orphans Win Unique Mascot Contest") These could be very offensive to people who have dwarfism or are orphans. Mascots like this do not celebrate their namesake in any way; they only mock them. When a school works hard to ensure that the mascot is honoring instead of mocking a tribe, beautiful things happen. “In April 2014, the Ute Indian Tribe recommitted its support for the use of the Ute name. In turn, the U has committed to increase recognition of the rich human history of our state and recognizing the many ways Native American tribes in Utah continue to strengthen our communities.” (“Ute History”) Florida State offers an elective entitled “History of the Seminoles and Southeastern Tribes, Pre-Contact to Present” (Culpepper). “The course — born in 2006, hatched right after the NCAA clamored about changing Native American mascots, conceived with input from the Seminole Tribe of Florida — doubles as epitome. It demonstrates the unusual bond between a 41,000-strong university way up in the Florida Panhandle and a 4,000-strong tribe that history shoved into the Everglades and below Lake Okeechobee and way down almost to Miami, some 400 miles from Room 208 of the HCB Classroom Building. It helps explain why, if Native American mascots keep ebbing in the United States through the 21st