Myth Of Progress: Discrimination In Canada

Canadians view themselves as morally correct, yet the Indigenous peoples are oppressed and discriminated by Canadians. The Aboriginal peoples culture would last longer without Canada since Canada wants to control first, but not by understanding the culture and heritage. Aboriginal peoples express how they felt about the Canadian “Myth of Progress”. Some other works take a more satirical look like “Tidings of Comfort and Joy” but the points still stand. One of the points is Canadians are discriminating the Indigenous peoples to be lazy and corrupt. The proud Canadian denies the fact Canada oppressed the Aboriginal peoples. The fact is that time has not been assisting in the progress of the Indigenous peoples from discrimination. “Tidings of

The times will never change as Canada does not directly face the problem; “problem was supposedly solved at some point in the past. The ‘real’ racism is in conflating ‘legitimate’ dislike for Indigenous peoples...with historic colonialism/racism ‘which is over.’’”(Vowel 120). This finding identifies that people think that racism is over but the progress made was not substantial to prevent racism against the Aboriginal people community. The law can not help these people, unless it was directed to Aboriginal peoples as a hate crime. People also lived in different times, continuing their past racist tendencies and teaching the new generations their actions because they focus on one perspective. “Tidings of Comfort and Joy” is being satirical because it exaggerate the lack of progress over time;“she said, softly, ‘the new millennium is almost here. Why don’t we go in the living room and join our friends.’ ‘Romulus and Remus,’ said Hudson. ‘That’s what I was going to name them. After the Roman twins.’ ‘Weren’t they raised by a wolf?’ Hudson smiled and nodded.”(King 18) This indicates that the times really did not do changes as Hudson and friends are going to continue the cycle whether the Aboriginal people they own are found alive or dead. No one in the story has thought about how the Aboriginal people’s thoughts and no one identifies that the Aboriginal peoples are people too, but the Aboriginal peoples are just numbers to Hudson. Time could always move forward, they could escape, but the ideology would not change along with their actions. This flips the narrative as it exaggerates the point that the problem is there and people will suffer from this in the