Reflection On My Worldview

In this reflection you ask me if my “worldview shifted” I would say yes, my worldview was full of blinders it was a straight and narrow outlook on life. My worldview was deeper than I imagined as I did have a discussion with you previous to my first reflection because it was a mark Iwas not use to or happy with and i was confused. You told me to dig deeper and i then wonder to myself am i really dinging into me or am I just talking about what's on the surface and not what's under the surface. A meaningful insight I have for this course is a difficult question to rally with. Not for the fact that I do not have any but for the fact there are so many things I could pick. An insight that stuck with me was about the land, I never really understood the meaning and proper of the land...because I knew it was important as …show more content…
The journey of me first having to realize that I have white privilege without asking for it was hard, overcoming that part of this class made me question myself as a person because who am I? Europeans history is dirty and low and I do not want to have that as my history. I want to be looked upon as a welcoming person, someone who is open to others beliefs. As you have stated, “As a student of Indigenous Studies, it is important to keep in mind that the past is still relevant to the lives of Canadian people today.” I could not agree more in this statement because everything is still relevant today. I know at times in my life I shake my head at the history we learn and often ask myself how is this relevant to my life? When I think about that it makes me think about how I move on in my life, the place I am in life physically and emotionally is all because of history. History shapes me, my family, my friends and everyone around me. It was always a struggle for me to have to learn that my people treated the indigenous people the way we did, it was a sense of shame and fathom. They would trick the Indigenous people, they would give them alcohol and abuse