Machiavelli advised a prince to use brute force
wisely to suppress dissents. He cautious the prince to strike of his sword one
time to kill as many as possible and not to drag days of killing for many years
to come by. Otherwise, the prince would be subject of criticism by people. In
addition, the prince needs to become a religious person to avoid criticism and
his action would appear holy. Hitler
read madam Blavatsky books about Theosophy and Hitler thought there was a
superior race which was destine to dominate other race groups. He also wanted
to erase any abnormality in humanity as he decided to murder anyone with
slightest genetic disposition that made one person different from rest of
others; such as having dark hair that did not meet Aryan race standards. Plus,
six million Jewish were killed for Hitler's cause. The above act of brutalities
had their limelight in academic arenas, Shakespeare’s literature, as well
as, media. However, the Residential School
catastrophe was concealed under Persian rugs from mid 1800s' until mid
1990s'. The aim of this paper is
discuss how residential school had impact on native people from aspect of
economic and politics, and how these residential school had detrimental affect
on the native people.
When Europeans came to Canada, they saw abundance of
natural resources to be exploited. They came to conclusion that the Aboriginal
people were threat for their economic prosperity. Native people had their own
mode of production which was unlike European capitalist version of economic
system. Native people were living in harmony with nature, and did not want to
disturb yin-yang of the nature. Political system was an instrument for
bourgeoisie class to control the Native people. The Native people became known
as a problem. It is shocking that these newcomers began calling them as their
problems. They set-up legal, political and economic institutes and did not seek
consent of Native people that if they would agree on what they were saying.
The Aboriginal people are stereotyped that they are
lazy people who are drunk and do not want to work. They are always looking for
a handout from government, and do not have self-pride like rest of people. The
above naïve glamors thinking did not go thought system of critical thinking.
These aboriginal people were treated more harshly than Machiavelli's political
doctrine if domination and Hitler's treatment of Jewish and other individuals.
In Canada, there is a system to gradually to crunch bones so that victims would
not know what is happening to them. The system passed a law that children must
become European by taking them away from their home and putting them in an
institutes which was a starvation place, and exposed to contiguous infectious
diseases. These children did not have their pillars in their life and did not
develop strong sense of confidence and they began to walk on a thin ice.
1.
The employment rate for Natives
is the lowest of any ethnic group, at about two-thirds of the national level.
2.
Native incomes are about
two-thirds the Canadian average.
3.
Over one – quarter of elderly
women, compared to about 14 per cent men, fall below poverty line.
4.
About half of single women aged
65 or over fall below the poverty line.[1]
5.
Alcoholism is much more
prevalent among Natives than non-Natives. It has been estimated that 50 – 60
percent of accidents and deaths among status Indians are alcohol related.
6.
The suicide rate among Native
is well over twice the Canadian rate.
7.
Life expectancy for status Indians
is about ten years less than for the Canadian population as a whole.
8.
Native population is less than
3 percent of Canadian population and about 18 percent of those in prisons are
Native.[2]
The above numbers indicated that how Canadian
political institutions with alliance of the Little Platoons were trying to
commit genocide. Still to this very day, the Native people are struggling with
past domestic policies which shaped their dooms.
As a result, the Residential School Day brought those
data from an abstract text book to reality. It illustrated how capitalist
system has no soul. It would do anything to accomplish its goal and anyone
stand against its way, it will be parish. Now, these Natives have a long way to
go to have seek justice for their past pain, and have a system which accept
them as an equal partner in Canadian politics.
