What if someone started calling you another name intentionally? Probably a familiar question if you were paying attention in class when Ms. Van Delft asked that question. This time I will formulate the question a bit differently. How would you feel like if your background race was mocked in a ridiculously fallacious manner, intentionally? Instead of you materializing responses I will give you an answer from a perspective of a University student. Indigenous students still experience institutionalized and subtle racism particularly emphasizing their background culture and common stereotypes. One of the indigenous at McMaster University had her race unacceptably ridiculed by her classmates and the instructor pursuing them in their inadequate behavior
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She was exposed to constant intolerable prejudice and was required to call out on mistreat of the institution. One of the incidents occurred during an assignment elucidating a random topic with one of them being Indigenous health. After asking the instructor if it was possible for her to present it due to her historical background and potential benefit towards the entire class, he refused, commenting that her alternative was unacceptable and not fair towards other students. During the day of the presentation, students that delineated Indigenous background with their uncultured and stereotypical props were commented on by Danielle due to the remarkable misinformation. “I think it’s very culturally inappropriate, what the headdresses mean and what you’re wearing them for and it doesn’t represent Indigenous health,” she said. What truly astonished her was the fact that the instructor called her comments inappropriate, asked her to leave the room and positively commented on the “creativity” of the compère. Citizenry still shows complete insignificance towards the Indigenous race and base their assumptions on the general terms. Instead of relying on the experience of Indigenous knowledge people decide to ignore it and materialize their own inaccurate
She was exposed to constant intolerable prejudice and was required to call out on mistreat of the institution. One of the incidents occurred during an assignment elucidating a random topic with one of them being Indigenous health. After asking the instructor if it was possible for her to present it due to her historical background and potential benefit towards the entire class, he refused, commenting that her alternative was unacceptable and not fair towards other students. During the day of the presentation, students that delineated Indigenous background with their uncultured and stereotypical props were commented on by Danielle due to the remarkable misinformation. “I think it’s very culturally inappropriate, what the headdresses mean and what you’re wearing them for and it doesn’t represent Indigenous health,” she said. What truly astonished her was the fact that the instructor called her comments inappropriate, asked her to leave the room and positively commented on the “creativity” of the compère. Citizenry still shows complete insignificance towards the Indigenous race and base their assumptions on the general terms. Instead of relying on the experience of Indigenous knowledge people decide to ignore it and materialize their own inaccurate