The ethics of courage

[english150blog]

If a culture was trying to impose a change to your values or social structure you probably would be stubborn to conform. Would you fight your hardest to keep your culture? Well, that’s what Taiaiake Alfred is trying to do. Alfred wrote an essay, called “The Ethics of Courage,” to explain possible choices to take in fighting against oppression. “Not

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[theblondeblog]

I don’t think that all Caucasians are as racist towards First Nations as Alfred depicts; however, I do think that some people are as bad as Alfred is suggesting and are “violent, degrading, and belittling” towards the First Nations. That being said, I do not think that it is fair to put all of the blame on Caucasians for the way many of Alfred’s people now live their lives, I think that he has to put some of the blame on them.