So only those who part of your culture get to have a viewpoint. How democratic?
NO
anyone can have their viewpoint, i believe deeply freedom....
that doesn't translate to those outsiders claiming those viewpoints are actually valid for a culture they know little of, and are not a part of.
an example to illustrate a point...
im not native.
i grew up with natives and i know their culture as an outsider, i just don't know it, i have allot of deep respect for native culture, canada and the world is a far far poor place in regard to the eradication and assimilation of native cultures at the hands of whites..
and i've been accepted amongst honi de shoni mohawks whom i know, grew up with, whom i lived with for a time,and i received a medicine pouch and a clan sign , did sweat lodge spent time on the rez with my mohawk close brother..i had to earn that though, i didnt just do what people do here, like you and ambrosia,,, i didnt just waltzed into their home and culture and start telling them how it is and needs to be....
NO!
i didnt do that...
so i can make statements as an outsider..
but those statements are just that...once i start bringing those statements as a "this is how it is to them" or once i start dismissing them as you and ambrosia do here with Deaf, literally whites do the exact same thing you and ambrosia have done on this thread, repeatedly. first ridiculed, then laugh, then dismiss, a cultures statements, a cultures real experiences, that changes things...again if i had a dollar for every time a white canadian laughed and dismissed off native statements re assimilation and what has happened and is happening,
id be rather rich....
my statements as a non native only go so far when it comes to natives culture, children and future, my statements stop at the fuckin door...where i respectfully leave them.
because im not one of them, im not mowak, i didnt grow up a mohawk, i grew up with them, ive experienced the racism they get in reverse, im not even full white but im white enough to pass the get a cab test in major canadian cities where most natives will be treated like less then garbage..i was white enough to get better treatment inside form screws then my mowak friends who got the animal treatment... ive been in jail and here the majority inside are natives,
and i know as an outsider the treatment they get,
..i know some of their culture as an outsider but its not mine,,,,nor do i claim it is mine..nor do i expect them to give it to me, nor do i expect them to just let me waltz right in and do what i please..
and thus my statements are just an outsiders....statements..
i wouldn't do what you and ambrosia do here.
i wouldn't wave my hand of disdain at their statements
i wouldn't brush them off
i wouldn't laugh them off
i wouldn't smirk them off.
i wouldn't ridicule them
i wouldn't scoff at them
as white do...
as you and ambrosia do here with Deaf
id actually do the exact opposite
id take them as i do at their fuckin word...'
and that's is where the conversation begins...
it doesn't begin with them having to proof to the white man what is occurring .....NO! its long past that...
it starts with the outsiders and those pushing assimilation in first stopping. then actually sincerely paying attention to what a culture and language minority is telling you is happening...after all its their culture they see it happening they experience it happening.....
that's the start..
and if you or ambrosia or anyone, are unable to leave your bigotry and bias at that proverbial door. then well...
you won't be getting far with us....ever
the above is an example form life
i know it won't go far with you but i posted it as i do, for others
in the end nut shell
you can believe anything you damn well want about us.....
but when it comes to our children, our culture and our future
leave it at the door..
because your not one of us...
simple as that
