The textbook discusses the process of assimilation. After viewing the film, Indian School: Stories of Survival (Links to an external site.)
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, answer the following questions: • What is the definition of assimilation according to your textbook?
The definition of assimilation according to my textbook is “the process by which a society experiencing acculturation changes so much that it is hardly distinguishable from a more dominant one” (Section 2.2 Ideology).
• What were you most surprised to learn from the film?
I was not surprised to learn from the film that “White” American government want a sense of control and manipulation over others. Taking Indian children from different villages to this so called “Indian …show more content…
The American dominate society does not want to kill Indians but saves the human being instead. Native American children are easy to influence rather than an adult. By putting a young group of children into a closed off facility like an Indian Boarding School to teach them their culture and religion. For the purpose of molding them into a civilized and well-mannered individual by the striping way their identity. For this reason of controlling the land and in order to do that is to weaken the Native American society.
• How did this affect them long term?
In the long term, it has brainwashed the generation of Indian. It has made the younger generation of Native Americans to feel that his or her culture is inferior to American culture. This strict boarding school run by Christian missionaries has caused damage to their spiritual well-being in the long run. Those who had survived by the mental and physical abuse. The effect has made them as Native Americans to question whether their culture can exist in an American dominate society?
• Is assimilating others into another culture ever
Links to an external site.
, answer the following questions: • What is the definition of assimilation according to your textbook?
The definition of assimilation according to my textbook is “the process by which a society experiencing acculturation changes so much that it is hardly distinguishable from a more dominant one” (Section 2.2 Ideology).
• What were you most surprised to learn from the film?
I was not surprised to learn from the film that “White” American government want a sense of control and manipulation over others. Taking Indian children from different villages to this so called “Indian …show more content…
The American dominate society does not want to kill Indians but saves the human being instead. Native American children are easy to influence rather than an adult. By putting a young group of children into a closed off facility like an Indian Boarding School to teach them their culture and religion. For the purpose of molding them into a civilized and well-mannered individual by the striping way their identity. For this reason of controlling the land and in order to do that is to weaken the Native American society.
• How did this affect them long term?
In the long term, it has brainwashed the generation of Indian. It has made the younger generation of Native Americans to feel that his or her culture is inferior to American culture. This strict boarding school run by Christian missionaries has caused damage to their spiritual well-being in the long run. Those who had survived by the mental and physical abuse. The effect has made them as Native Americans to question whether their culture can exist in an American dominate society?
• Is assimilating others into another culture ever