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This is an example of how you should set up your Padlet posts:
To for the first week only, type your name in this box. I will then be able to name the appropriate column with your name (e.g. replace 'student 1/2/3 etc.' with the correct names.
After your name, you will need to provide the name of the week you are posting about (e.g. Week 1) and then a link to the news report with your commentary (e.g. what are the 'main points' and what did you learn?). Be sure to write in your own words and provide a thoughtful, personal, reflection of what you learned. Each post should be at least 100 words.
Important: you will always post to the same column each week (identified by your name)

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Name: Cara Tremain
This article is about Langara Students collaborating with students at a university in Argentina, via a virtual exchange experience known as 'COIL-VE'. I learned that it is possible for Langara students to work with other students on the other side of the Americas,  and participate on assignments together via the internet. It shows how technology is changing the way we connect with others, but it also reminds us that we are becoming increasingly dependent on/ forced to use technology (what do we do about people/ cultures that prefer not to communicate via technology?). Overall, I think COIL-VE will be great for increasing awareness of other cultures, and allow students to meet/work with others without the cost barriers of international travel. I'd like to introduce this into my own courses!

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Vancouver, BC - Social distancing and COVID-19 haven't prevented students at Langara College from collaborating with their peers at Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (UNGS) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Langara is introducing cutting-edge pedagogy by supporting faculty to introduce Collaborative Online Intercultural Learning - Virtual Exchange (COIL-VE) to the classroom.

Under the tutelage of Langara's Latin American Studies instructor Jessie Smith and Antonella Romiti (UNGS), students in Latin American Cultural Perspectives created photo galleries that reflect on interculturalism and art for social change from a gender perspective.

The student projects are:

Femicides in the Americas: how media coverage of femicide shields the aggressors

Abortion in Canada and Argentina: a photo-gallery comparison about abortion rights in Argentina and Canada

LGTBIQ Rights in Canada and Argentina

Indigenous Women Under Attack in the Americas

Me Too/Ni Una Menos: how the Me Too movement has involved in each country

Musicians for Change: Women Rising

"This was an exciting opportunity for Langara's students to interact with and exchange mutual ideas with their peers from Argentina," said Smith. "Their final projects exhibited insight and creativity that far exceeded our expectations. It was a joy to collaborate on this creative project with Antonella, my counter-part in Argentina."

COIL-VE intentionally fosters the development of the intercultural competencies that are needed for success in today's world and work force. Student groups from two or more institutions work together virtually to complete a project.

"This experience has been absolutely mesmerizing and new to me," said Sole Castenada, a Langara student taking Latin America Studies. "I feel so privileged to be able to be a part of such an innovative learning process where multiple cultures have the opportunity to mesh into one virtual dimension of academic nurturing and creative collaboration."

Langara's Centre for Intercultural Engagement (CIE) has developed a COIL-VE Community of Practice to support Langara Fellows engaged in virtual exchange. CIE additionally offers COIL-VE workshop training sessions to Faculty partners from external institutions to support development of joint virtual student learning projects. Following these workshops participants become part of the Langara COIL-VE Community of Practice, gaining access to discussions, peers, and resources.

"Virtual learning is a relatively new program at Langara which started in 2019 with the objective of helping students gain intercultural and global competencies. We're encouraged by the results we've seen from the first couple of projects," said Natasha Mrkic-Subotic, Intercultural Engagement Consultant, Langara College. "Given the challenges with in-classroom learning we're facing, this delivery method is an ideal way to engage our students and build relationships nationally and around the world."
More about COIL-VE
Collaborative Online Intercultural Learning, also called Virtual Exchange, is a method for connecting faculty and their students with peers in other countries via the internet. The model involves in-depth cooperation between paired faculty co-designing parts of courses (to entire courses) and students collaborating in small groups to complete shared projects. COIL-VE produces meaningful, authentic intercultural experiences for faculty and students without the cost and extensive time away from home. For students, COIL-VE increases interest in study abroad. For faculty, COIL-VE increases international faculty collaboration and future short-term exchanges.

About snəw̓eyəɬ leləm̓ Langara College
Located in beautiful Vancouver, B.C., Canada, snəw̓eyəɬ leləm̓ Langara College provides University, Career, and Continuing Studies education to more than 23,000 students annually. With more than 1,700 courses and 130 programs, Langara's expansive academic breadth and depth allows students of all ages, backgrounds, and life stages to choose their own educational path. Langara is also known as snəw̓eyəɬ leləm̓, a name given to it by the Musqueam people on whose unceded traditional territory the College is located. Langara is celebrating its 49th year on West 49th Avenue with Beyond 49, an integrated celebration, alumni engagement, and fundraising campaign to reconnect with alumni, and raise funds for student support and important College initiatives.

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Langara students collaborate online with Argentinian peers to explore social change

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Vancouver, BC - Social distancing and COVID-19 haven't prevented students at Langara College from collaborating with their peers at Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (UNGS) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Langara is introducing cutting-edge pedagogy by supporting faculty to introduce Collaborative Online Intercultural Learning - Virtual Exchange (COIL-VE) to the classroom.

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Week 1
Name: Aj Chahal
This CBC news article highlights an anthropologist by the name of Wade Davis who focused his research on indigenous people. His findings were focused on subjects such as their relationship to the world, what we’ve learnt from them and their impact. This article also touches on the impact of other cultures specifically languages that had been spoke but we have unfortunately lost. I learned the significance of language which is important to me even though I was born and raised in Canada my parents are immigrants. Therefore, I think it’s vital for society to consider the background of all people whether its indigenous or in my case Sikh which is what Wade Davis was trying to convey throughout this article.

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*Originally published on February 18, 2020.
The Canadian anthropologist, Wade Davis, has spent a lifetime learning from the Indigenous peoples of the world, and their relationship with the planet we all share.

For him, the big question is whether we can learn from these "wayfinders" as he called them in his 2009 CBC Massey lectures. He believes that the future of humanity - and its present - depends on listening to Indigenous peoples: to what they know of the world, to what they have to teach us; and how they can help our species both survive, and thrive.

In his lectures, Davis described the myriad cultures on our planet as the "ethnosphere", by which he means the "sum total of all thoughts and intuitions, myths and beliefs, ideas and inspirations brought into being by the human imagination."

Now, 10 years after he delivered his Massey lectures, the University of British Columbia professor looks back on what has changed on our planet - for better and for worse.

The following is an excerpt of his conversation at the Stratford Festival with psychiatrist David Godbloom.
You spoke in 2009 of the ethnosphere as humanity's greatest legacy. Tell us firstly what you meant by the ethnosphere and what's happened?
Well, what I was trying to do is create an organizing principle that would draw people's attention to what was going on to the diversity of culture brought into being by the human imagination. And, you know, we hear so much about the erosion of biological diversity but even the most discouraged biologists would never suggest that 50 per cent of all animal and plant life is moribund, and yet that the most apocalyptic scenario in the realm of biological diversity scarcely approaches what we know to be the most optimistic scenario in the realm of cultural diversity.

And the key indicator of that of course is language loss. I mean the fact that when all of us were born there were 7,000 languages spoken on the planet, and by absolute academic consensus half of those aren't being whispered today into the ears of infants, which means we're literally living through an era in which by definition half of humanity's intellectual, social, ecological, spiritual knowledge is at risk. And that doesn't have to happen.

I mean this tied really strongly into my conviction that the same forces that were affecting biological diversity were, of course, affecting cultural diversity. And I'm an anthropologist and the real purpose of anthropology is - as Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas' great student, said - is to make the world safe for human differences.

Anthropology is the antidote to nativism. It's the antidote to Trump. You know, the real central lesson of anthropology is that every culture has something to say. Each deserves to be heard just as none has a monopoly on the route to the divine. The other peoples of the world are not failed attempts at being new, they're not failed attempts at being modern.

Every culture has a unique answer to a fundamental question: what does it mean to be human and alive? And when the people of the world answer that question they do so in those 7,000 different voices of humanity. And those voices and those answers collectively become our human repertoire for dealing with the challenges we'll confront in the coming centuries.
When we were backstage, we were talking about the fact that the country you've just left (Colombia) that you've recently become a citizen of has gone through its own extraordinary transformation. Can you talk about your first time in Colombia, I think 45 years ago?
We had a teacher who had an air of a dandy, trailed clouds of cologne. But all of that was betrayed by a glass eye and a scarred face that marked the body blown apart in the war. He took six boys to Colombia one summer and my mother worked as a secretary in elementary school all year to afford for me to join that trip. I was 14 and by far the youngest of the group.

And by complete good fortune, whereas the other lads were billeted with very affluent families and spent most of the sweltering summer in the country clubs of Cali, I was with a family high up in the mountains on the trails that ran west of the Pacific. I never saw the Canadians all summer.
In Wade Davis: Photographs, Davis selected 150 of his favourite photographs from the thousands he has taken in the course of his 40-year career. Here are a few of those images: You've chronicled the threatened extinction of languages around the world as a kind of marker for peril in the ethnosphere. Has the turnaround in Colombia had an impact on the preservation or even the growth of multiple Indigenous languages?
It was kind of a classic Colombian scene, multitudes of children, indulgent fathers, grandmothers who mutter to themselves on porches overlooking fruit trees and flower gardens. In eight weeks I encountered the decency and strangeness of a people charged with a kind of strange intensity and an incredible compassion for the fragility of life.

And whereas many of the other Canadian boys I later discovered had gotten terrible - what the Colombians called 'mamitis,' which is homesickness - I felt like I had finally found home. And I never wanted to come back.

One of the things that is so important for us to recognize is that there was always this sense in 19th century anthropology that there was a sort of hierarchy of culture measured by technology. It was inspired by Darwin, if species evolve, surely societies evolve and we could find some grand scheme of cultures that went from the savage to the barbarian, to the civilized, to the Strand of London.

Anthropologists went out to test that and found it to be absolutely ridiculous because there were no grounds whatsoever to determine anybody as primitive. Franz Boas, the Father of North American Anthropology, was a real person who led that and went to live with the Inuit. He got caught out in a blizzard and he realized that without their genius he would die. And then he went off to the northwest coast, to British Columbia and saw that you didn't need agriculture to create high civilization.

We in the West, with our way of thinking of the natural world, we are not the norm - we're the anomaly. Most societies around the planet have these extraordinarily rich relationships where they never see people as part of the problem, but part of the essential solution - because it's only people that can maintain the cosmic balance of the world.

Anthropology never calls for the preservation of anything. And when people often ask why did these other cultures matter, or why does ancient wisdom matter in the modern world? I answer that with two words: climate change.
Anthropologist Wade Davis spoke with David Goldbloom at the Stratford Festival, in September 2019. The program was recorded by Melissa Renaud. Special thanks to Ann Swerdfager and Antoni Cimolino. * This episode was produced by Philip Coulter. Q & A was edited for clarity and length.
Not to suggest we go back to pre-industrial past, but the very existence of these other alternatives, these other visions of life, so rich in their complexity put the lie to those of us in our own society who say that we cannot change, as we know we all must change the fundamental way we treat the planet.

And so I draw great inspiration from the diversity of ideas that we've come up with across a whole range of the human spirit.

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Saving the planet means listening to Indigenous peoples: Wade Davis | CBC Radio

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Ancient wisdom in the modern world can save us from the dangers of climate change, argues Wade Davis. The Canadian anthropologist has spent a lifetime looking into what Indigenous peoples of the world can teach us. Now, 10 years after his 2009 Massey lectures called 'The Wayfinders,' he looks back on what has changed on our planet - for better and for worse.

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Name: Rachel Quan
Article link:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/opinion-kliel-rose-high-holidays-pandemic-1.5708184

This CBC news article focuses on the importance of living and working with others to find hope during this time of crisis. In the article, Rabbi Rose talks about the Synagogues opening up to all types of people as a ray of light and hope during the pandemic. Even though 2020 has been full of terrible events Rabbi tells the readers to continue life and to live consciously for the sake of life and the ones who passed due to the pandemic as people can work with each other in times of need. Right now in the world, everyone is going through this crisis together which allows people to set aside their differences and work together with compassion and understanding as a society today. In the end, I think that just being able to understand the important things is what brings us closer together as humans.

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Week 1
Name: Violet Hollands
Article Reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Gi0ycmekE&feature=youtu.be

This CBC news segment focuses on cultural genocide and MMIW. Cultural genocide is a huge issue that is not spoken of enough, especially currently today. Some may not even be aware of it but it is happening. We choose not to talk about it enough, it is ignored because it makes us uncomfortable, but it is vital to understand. This video article is part of a series that helps us better understand cultural genocide. I live on land that is stolen from Indigenous peoples and I feel that this is a necessary topic for myself and society as a whole to understand.

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Canada's cultural genocide of Indigenous Peoples

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Week 1
Name: Godwin Lai
Article Reference:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/05/us/hollerin-great-big-story-trnd/index.html

This CNN article focuses on Spivey's Corner in North Carolina, in regards to their special "Hollerin' " contest. I chose this article because this shows how people in the past communicated, contrasted with the text messages of today. In war and in peace, communication remained a keystone of human interaction, and with farmers as noted in the article, they hollered at each other to call for help, to say good morning, or to coordinate their efforts that required a group effort. Contrasted with today, our version of hollerin' would be using through messaging applications like Facebook Messenger, Discord, Skype, and other such services, that allow for more effective communication, in part thanks to technology. This directly influences how much culture has changed. For me, this was a reminder that technology has been a major part in helping close the divide in communicating with other people.

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Article Reference:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/jane-fraser-citibank-1.5718590

This article is about the first women CEO of the Citibank which is one of the leading banks on Wall Street. The news of Jane Fraser’s promotion gave a huge symbolic message to women’s leadership worldwide. Until I read this, I thought the modern society we live currently has not been sensitive anymore about this kind of issues because there are already a lot of successful women who have powerful influences in the world. However, in this article, I am surprised the fact that according to a study conducted by Democratic lawmaker in Texas, all the white male CEOs answered that they did not think this glass ceiling would be broken. What is more interesting, it also states that even 5 major Canadian banks’ CEOs are all male and when I searched, top 5 banks in Korea are also operated by male CEOs. In my perspective, I am not pointing out them or try to say they take the position unfairly. Those who are qualified enough to lead the organizations deserve to take the CEO job, but I wonder if there were still any invisible obstacles for women to go up. I hope this news encourages all the women leaders, women dreaming to be like Jane and makes people take equality more seriously.

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This Ted Talk by Daryl Davis revolves around his experience as a black man who was welcomed to attend KKK rallies. Davis immersed himself in the culture of his adversaries to try and truly understand the beliefs and practices of those who hate him for no reason at all, other than the colour of his skin. This story is inspiring in so many different aspects but what stood out to me the most is that through mainly mutual respect alone, lives had been changed. It is no secret that respecting one another is important, but Mr. Davis’s story manifests not only how ignorance can separate the human race and cause so much hatred but also, how far a simple act of respect can go such a long way and holds power to change the world.

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Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies | Daryl Davis | TEDxNaperville

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An encounter with prejudice early in life led black musician Daryl Davis on a quest to determine the source of the hate, leading to how and why he has attended KKK rallies. His unorthodox yet simple approach has wielded surprising results and just might be the solution for all racial discourse.

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Week 2: How the smoke from the fires is affecting the homeless population of Vancouver

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Week 2: How the smoke from the fires is affecting the homeless population of Vancouver

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Article: https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/09/12/ugm-smoke-wildfires-indoors/

This article is about how the wildfires and their smoke are affecting homeless people around Vancouver. The article states that homeless are more likely to have pre-existing medical conditions that make inhaling such particles more dangerous. Coupled with the fact that the city does not have adequate resources to provide such people shelter from the smoke.

I think this is an interesting topic as I do not often think about how something I take for granted, like the ability to have access to safe housing, or the ability to enter a shared public space without judgement, could be something others do not have.

I think that this situation is merely a symptom of a system that needs to be improved in our society towards helping people get back on their feet. It is a very complex issue, as sometimes people in these situations can do things that are seemingly unpredictable, and that scares people. Or they are dehumanized as drug addicts, or mentally ill. Though I believe if you treat everyone as a human, most of the time you can work together and increase quality of life.

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Week 1
Name: Iona Yu
Article Reference:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/black-canadians-school-curriculum-1.5706510
This CBC news article discusses about limits and concerns of Black History passed on to school curricula and how parents need change for the education of the Black History. Many families have been addressing issues to the educational systems and raising their voices to change the education of Black History. However, government officials have been disregarding the concerns. Hence, leading to protests and deliberately forcing the educational system to change rapidly in the education of students. In 2020, there has been a fall of students that have denied offers into colleges due to the lack of Black History in courses. In other cities, such as in Nova Scotia, provide 2 textbooks about Black History and the experiences. Yet, the amount of information was not enough for some professors. In conclusion, Black History should be added into school curricula to show not only what their different cultures and backgrounds are, but to also be shown as equal in the world.

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Week 1: Covid-19's effect on the social development of children

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Week 1: Covid-19's effect on the social development of children

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Article: https://globalnews.ca/news/7156863/coronavirus-children-isolation-socialization/

I chose this article on how the global pandemic could impact the future social skills of children. I chose it because I have a job where I teach children and I have seen first hand the difference of before and after covid. I find them to be a lot quieter or with more of a tendency to act out, or otherwise act a little more “off” than usual. The article's main point is that many children who are at crucial points in their social development are lacking that due to covid. And that there is some concern about their development. It also goes on to say that this could be remedied via facetime with family or other virtual hangouts.

I think it would be very interesting to track their development (ethographically!) and how it impacts them. Speaking as someone who was homeschooled until highschool, I believe I did eventually develop close to normal social skills. Though there are times I am socially anxious or do things that others perceive as not normal.

Good read, and something to think about!

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Week 1: Can sun umbrellas ever become fashionable again in America?

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Week 1: Can sun umbrellas ever become fashionable again in America?

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Name: Lynn Tran
Article: https://theconversation.com/can-sun-umbrellas-ever-become-fashionable-again-in-america-121860

This article is about how the use of umbrellas has changed over time in North America. I find this article interesting because it shows how a simple tool can have such cultural and historical meanings to it. This article argues that the use of umbrellas for sun protection in the U.S. has almost come to extinction, though they were once widely used by trendsetters and wealthy women in the eighteenth era. The use of umbrella slowly disappeared in North America when tans started to become a sign of beauty. Despite its effectiveness for protection against skin cancer, Americans nowadays refuse to use umbrellas for sun protection since it is not fashionable.

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Name: Godwin Lai
Article Reference: https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/15/us/racist-deeds-covenants/index.html

I chose this article based on how European ethnocentrism of ages past, negatively impact today's modern society in the form of legal documents in regards to housing, which can also be described as housing bias.

Originally, people interpreted racist language as being politically official. The common perspective at the time was that people of color, Jews and other minority groups were lesser than the average white male. This perspective still persists to this day, and the political willpower and ability to do so is fierce. I had a taken a course at Langara, finding out more about the Europeans and the First Nations of Canada, and how they interacted with Canada. The ethnocentric mentality of the time was very apparent in the primary source research I did, and similar issues in regards to the consequences of ethnocentrism can also be found with the First Nations, especially in regards to land ownership, serving as a grim reminder of the scars of racism.

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Article Reference:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/starbucks-black-lives-matter-shirt-ban-1.5604929

The article was posted this Jun and I read this quite interesting back then because Starbucks was my first job in Vancouver, and I have been working for there in Korea as well since I came back here. In this article, we can see that Starbucks have supported the protest “Black Lives Matter” by giving their employees t-shirts which have protest signs on. Their movement was spread out rapidly through social media and it absolutely grabbed people’s attentions. As we also can see that in the article, this is not the first time they decided to fight racism. In 2015, Starbucks encouraging their partners to write “Race Together” sign on the cups and give out to customers. In addition, they closed all stores to express their thoughts for the racist incidents in 2018. From my point of view, when I was working for Starbucks Canada, I was very impressed by my co-workers and regular customers because they treated me as a same person very nicely even though I was the only foreigner not speaking English so well and a stranger in their community. They were aware of one of their slogans, “Cultural Diversity and Equality,” and kept it in their mind. I have never felt any differences. In other word, I was fully respected. Starbucks lead the society by acting up to their strong belief as a global organization which has a powerful influence worldwide. I believe this is what world-class organizations have to consider making the better society.

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Article Reference: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/magazine/im-a-muslim-and-arab-american-will-i-ever-be-an-equal-citizen.html
The article I have chosen is about a Muslim America, it highlights the struggle of feeling different in a country you were raised in for majority of your life due to your background. This article specifics on the tremendous effect the 2016 election had on POC due to trumps administration. This article relates to Anthropology because even though immigrants have adapted the American culture and have adapted it to their everyday lives they will always be seen as different. While reading this chapter on culture it made me realize that even though I strongly believe culture is single handily one of the largest identifiers of who someone is, the color of someone’s skin, or the religion they follow will always overpower it.  The author mentions several times that she has embraced the American culture and the country itself however she goes on to say that “immigration is a traumatic experience” and since I have seen it first hand with my parents this article hits close to home.
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Week 2: Colonialism is thriving in Canada.

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Week 2: Colonialism is thriving in Canada.

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The article I have chosen for this week is about the connection between colonialism and mainstream journalism. In the article there is an audio clipping of the interview with the author of the book "Seeing Red: A History of Natives In Canadian Newspapers" (which I actually ordered after reading the article to better understand colonization in media). This article focuses on how stereotypes dating back to 1869 are still circulating in today's news and media which helped me understand just how much the media plays a part in the colonization of Indigenous peoples and culture. I also learned more stereotypes from this article that I personally hadn't fully noticed in media and it definitely helped me understand better. I highly suggest everyone read/listen to this article!

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At first, Carmen Robertson thought they'd gotten it wrong.

Robertson, a professor at Carleton University who identifies as Lakota and Scottish, was poring over research findings from an in-depth analysis of how the mainstream media in Canada have represented Indigenous people from 1869 until 2009.

"What we were surprised by was how little things improved," recalled Robertson.

Robertson, and her colleague Mark Anderson, realized that their overall finding, while surprising, wasn't wrong.

"The stereotypes that we found in the 19th century, they're still being reproduced," said Robertson.

Robertson and Anderson's research was published in 2011 in their book Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers. Their book was the first of its kind to be published, and is considered a important text in many universities.

The main finding from their research was the media's unchanging stereotypical misrepresentation of Indigenous people, explained Robertson. While some of the specific terms have morphed over time, the same stereotypes continue to be recirculated.

Recurring tropes used by mainstream journalists when representing Indigenous people include the themes of "uncivilized" and "savagery," said Robertson. "Drunkenness," she added, "is a key trope that we saw, again and again."

The media's misrepresentation of Indigenous people is harmful, Robertson explained. "It reproduces and ... confirms the stereotypes that people hear in other parts of popular culture."

Colonialism and mainstream journalism are interconnected

Journalists and the mainstream media are intertwined with colonization. "Colonialism has always thrived in Canada's press," wrote Robertson and Anderson in Seeing Red.

"Canadiana, crucially aided and abetted by newspapers, and even scholars who should know better, has for decades denied it, persisting instead in believing the dreamed colonial version of history. In this way, Canada, like all nations, is an 'imagined community,'" wrote the authors.

The influence of colonialism in mainstream media is "pervasive," Robertson told Unreserved host Rosanna Deerchild.

It really was not an objective representation. - Carmen Robertson

In their research, Robertson and Anderson took issue with the concept of objectivity, a value that has long been upheld as central to journalism. The authors' analysis of 140 years of mainstream media coverage related to Indigenous people revealed how journalists consistently reproduced stereotypes.

"It really was not an objective representation," she said. "What we saw instead was people understanding their own biases and reporting those."

One of the many harms inflicted by the media's misrepresentation of Indigenous people is a result of the educational role off the press, she said. Robertson and Anderson refer to the press as "a kind of national curriculum."

When stereotypes are reproduced in the media it reinforces those misrepresentations in people's minds, she said. "It becomes a kind of education."

"It can't change overnight"

Stereotypes are "deeply entrenched" in the mainstream media. "The press has been around for a long time," said Robertson. "It can't change overnight."

"I think there definitely is a will for some change, but it's far more incremental than we'd like to see," she said.

But Robertson is heartened to see journalism schools in Canada taking up the Truth and Reconciliation's Calls to Action (Call to Action 86 is directed specifically at Canadian journalism programs and media schools).

Robertson and Anderson are working on an updated version of Seeing Red. The upcoming edition will include new content, including an analysis of the media coverage of the death of Colten Boushie, and the trial of the man who shot him, Gerald Stanley. The updated book is expected to be available by 2021, 10 years after Seeing Red was first published.

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'Colonialism has always thrived in Canada's press,' says researcher | CBC Radio

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Carmen Robertson is co-author of Seeing Red, a book that reveals how the press consistently use recurring stereotypes and misrepresent Indigenous people. The book was the first of its kind to be published, and is considered an important text in many universities.

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Week 2
Name: Iona Yu
Article Reference: https://globalnews.ca/news/7346123/coronavirus-health-care-funding/

The article I chose this week is about concerns of premiers who are in desperate need of backing Canadians jobs and their health's from the pandemic as it mainly focuses on treating and highlighting Canadian citizens who are suffering in their country. Premiers spending more money on health care for Canadians has led the federal government reach agreement in contributing more support to citizens during the crisis. Not only does this article speak cultural relativism, this also demonstrates a good example of understanding what is important for their own people and themselves. Although I believe there is support from the premiers, some citizens may say premiers in their cities could show inadequate information due to their cultures or backgrounds. As a citizen, I understand the crisis we live in today and how premiers are supporting us. But I also have learned that sometimes there are situations we must give in to let others have power to change the ethics and protection.

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The federal government is prepared to discuss more funding for provinces that saw their health-care systems severely impacted by the novel coronavirus, Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc said.

He told Global News' Mercedes Stephenson on an episode of The West Block that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been clear he is "happy to" discuss the Canada Health Transfer.

"We share the premiers' concerns, so we're prepared to have that conversation," he said.

But, LeBlanc said referencing several premiers' recent appearance in Ottawa, provincial leaders should be focusing on their response to rising COVID-19 cases, a possible second wave and what he described as "huge lineups" at COVID-19 testing centres.

"We think that's where the urgent focus should be of all governments. That's where we're focused. And we certainly think the premiers need to maintain that focus as well," he said.

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On Friday, ahead of the government's speech from the throne next week, Canada's premiers were unanimous in demanding the federal government spend at least $28 billion more each year for health care and $10 billion for infrastructure.

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Quebec Premier Francois Legault, Alberta's Jason Kenney and Manitoba's Brian Pallister, who went to Ottawa on behalf of all premiers, also asked the federal government reform its fiscal stabilization program to deliver extra funding to provinces undergoing particularly hard times. That would mean "an extra $6 billion for Alberta alone," the Canadian Press reported.

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Kenney told Global News 50 per cent of funding from the program was supposed to be available for provinces undergoing an "economic downturn," but now "we're down to provinces paying 80 per cent of the bill."

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"For us in Alberta, with the fiscal catastrophe that we are now living on top of the all the huge costs associated with COVID-19, that's coming home in a very real and human way," he said, adding he had support from all 13 provinces and territories.

"We're also facing an economic crisis, a jobs crisis in Alberta and have been for five years going through economic stagnation. The global COVID-19 recession, on top of the biggest collapse in oil prices in history has hit us especially hard."

"The human consequences of that are enormous, which is why we're demanding fiscal fairness."

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When asked why he felt compelled to travel to Parliament Hill in order to make his demands, Kenney replied: "Because this is so important."

"We had to find a way to highlight these desperate needs in our country for our people. This is not about politics. It's about people. It's about health care. It's about jobs," he said.

Kenney added that all health protocols, safety and travel restrictions were followed when making the trip to Ottawa.

He advised the federal government avoiding spending money on "all sort of ideological shiny objects" and focus on "protecting lives and livelihoods."

"In this, the largest economic contraction in nine decades, surely we can all agree that we should be single-mindedly focused on the public health urgency and the economic crisis that's in front of us," he said.
- With files from The Canadian Press

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The federal government is prepared to discuss more funding for provinces that saw their health-care systems severely impacted by the novel coronavirus, Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc said. He told Global News' Mercedes Stephenson on an episode of The West Block that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been clear he is "happy to" discuss the Canada Health Transfer.

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The points brought up in this CBC article is the discrimitation against the LGBTQ community that is justified in our modern world. This relates to cultural anthropology because though the world has become a lot more welcoming and accepting of the queer community in todays society, there are still some people who will not tolerate it. Of course, I recognize that homophobia is a problem that continues to exist but I was unaware that some jobs can still justifiably  terminate or stop a person from working a job over something such as sexuality. I understand that certain religions see homosexual realtionships as sin but I assumed that gender identity along with sexual oreinetation was something that wasn’t a sensible, especially this close to home.

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A long-time teacher at Surrey Christian School in B.C. says she was told her contract would not be renewed after school administrators discovered she was living with her male partner, violating a clause in her employment contract that forbids "any sexual activity outside of a heterosexual marriage."

"When you're enforcing a policy like this you have to ask a teacher questions like, 'Who do you live with? Where do you live? Are you sexually active? Are you pregnant? Are you gay?... It was humiliating," Stephanie Vande Kraats told Go Public, tearing up as she recalled the meetings two years ago that led to her resignation.

Vande Kraats had worked at the school for almost 14 years as an English teacher and librarian.

She's angry that her former employer receives half of its annual funding - $5 million - from the B.C. government when the school discriminates against employees.

Surrey Christian School is among hundreds of religious schools across the country that receive public funding. Many are allowed to have discriminatory hiring policies because they have religious exemptions from human rights laws.

"It's enabling private schools that are using public money to operate to violate the human rights of their employees," says Patti Bacchus, who chaired the Vancouver School Board from 2008-14. "I think that's a big problem."

'It was traumatic for me'​

Vande Kraats says she was married when she signed the Surrey Christian School's employment contract, which included a community standards policy, banning employees from having sex outside of a heterosexual marriage.

More than a decade later, after she had divorced and was living with her common-law partner, school superintendent Dave Loewen called her to his office and asked questions about her personal life.

He told her she could work six more months until the end of her contract, but Vande Kraats says she felt she had to resign.

"I didn't want to continue in a place where I already felt humiliated and judged," she said. "It was traumatic for me."

She says she also felt pressured to exit quietly, because she needed a good letter of reference. She is now working at another school in the Vancouver area.

"I think there are a lot more people who have been hurt by these policies than just myself, and I know exactly why they're not speaking up. They need those references as much as I did," Vande Kraats says.

'I don't think it's discriminatory'

Surrey Christian School superintendent Dave Loewen told Go Public, "it was sad" to lose Vande Kraats as an employee because she was a strong teacher.

"Having to have a difficult conversation with someone about personal choices is not my favourite thing to do," he said.

He disagrees that the school's community standards policy is discriminatory.

"I think the word 'discriminates' is too strong of a word," said Loewen. "I don't think it's discriminatory because it's not a requirement for people to work here. It's invitational and we're transparent about our values."

'Independent schools save taxpayers'

Surrey Christian School is a member of the Federation of Independent School Associations (FISA), which told Go Public in an email, "Independent schools save taxpayers nearly $430 million a year in operating costs and many millions more in capital costs" because parents pay tuition.

FISA executive director Shawn Chisholm said teachers "have the choice" of moving to another school, an argument that exasperates Bacchus, who writes on education issues for the Georgia Straight newspaper.

"To suggest that you can choose to go work somewhere else ... really is undermining the whole point of having those kind of protections," she said. "People shouldn't have to face discrimination in this country based on their marital status or their gender identity."

Controversial community contracts

Surrey Christian School is one of 35 schools that belong to the Society of Christian Schools in B.C., which provides its members a template for community standards policies that employees must follow.

Besides restrictions on sexual activity, there are recommended bans on things like using coarse language, public drunkenness and watching porn.

Human rights codes in provinces across Canada have similar exemptions that allow religious schools to set their own policies, if they're based on religious beliefs and their primary purpose is to promote the interests of a religious group.

The defining legal case dates back to 1984, when the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in favour of a Catholic school that fired a teacher after she married a divorced man, saying non-profit religious institutions have the right to give preference to members of the group their organizations serve.

Court challenges

Challenges to those policies are few in number, and Go Public could not find any cases where employees had been successful in court.

In December, a former teacher and principal at a Catholic school took her case to the Alberta Human Rights Commission, alleging that she was pushed to quit because of her sexual orientation. That case is ongoing.

As a result of media reports, the Alberta government, which provided almost $1.7 billion in funding to Catholic schools last year, is now reviewing the employment contracts from all 16 Catholic school boards in the province.

A transgender man who was fired from a Catholic school in Alberta in 2008 lost his legal fight in 2017.

A Vancouver teacher decided not to pursue a legal case after she says she was pushed out of a Catholic school in 2010 when administrators discovered she was a lesbian after she asked for parental leave because her partner was having a baby.

Last June, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that B.C.'s Trinity Western University, an evangelical Christian school, could not get accreditation for a planned new law school because it has a policy demanding that students abstain from sex outside of heterosexual marriage - a code of conduct the court ruled to be discriminatory towards LGBT students.

"Interesting that staff weren't addressed in that ruling," says Vande Kraats, who told Go Public the Trinity Western decision prompted her to speak out about what had happened to her.

"I do wonder if the climate is changing now," she says.

When Vande Kraats asked the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal about her situation, she says she was dissuaded from filing a case.

"They were very sympathetic," she says, but told her that religious schools have the legal right to have discriminatory employment clauses.

B.C. religious schools get $300M a year

Surrey Christian School receives 50 per cent of the per-pupil funding given to public schools within its district.

In 2017-18, the school received $5 million in public funds - a portion of almost $300 million the provincial government allocated to faith-based schools.

Bacchus argues that people who want alternatives to the public education system can make that choice, but shouldn't have access to government funding.

"It's problematic to me that our provincial government in B.C. is providing funding to private schools that are including this kind of discriminatory language in employee contracts and discriminating against employees," she says.

Vande Kraats also wants the B.C. government to cut funding or demand religious schools change their employment policies.

B.C. government declines to comment

Go Public requested an interview with B.C. Premier John Horgan, but a spokesperson referred our request to the Ministry of Education.

A ministry spokesperson declined the interview request, and also refused to explain why the province provides funding to faith-based schools with discriminatory policies.

Communications manager Sean Leslie sent a statement reiterating that B.C.'s Human Rights Code provides certain exemptions that allow schools to have policies like the one that led to Vande Kraats' termination.

Time for a change?

Raji Mangat, a human rights lawyer with West Coast Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, says it may be time for the courts to re-examine the battle between religious rights and individual human rights.

"Society and our expectations around human rights and people's dignity change," Mangat says. "For instance, same sex marriage is now recognized.

"There are so many situations in which people are either forced to leave or told their [employment] contract isn't going to be renewed for reasons I think a lot of us, today, would find very troubling."

'This is a dark secret'

Vande Kraats hopes that speaking out will encourage provincial governments across the country to take a hard look at the funding provided to schools with discriminatory employment contracts.

"This is a dark secret for these religious independent schools," she says.

"What I've learned is that these policies are actually enforced. And they're enforced against people that have been long-time teachers who are respected. And it's very hurtful. I hope it changes."

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Week 2: Why Are We in the West So Weird? A Theory

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Week 2: Why Are We in the West So Weird? A Theory

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Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/books/review/the-weirdest-people-in-the-world-joseph-henrich.html
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This article discusses the birth of the WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) culture and minds. It discusses how the West became more psychologically peculiar and prosperous compared to other cultures and societies. This particular article is related to North American Anthropology because when human behaviour studies were conducted in the past, researchers found that the subjects for said studies are mostly American college students who are Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic. The article mentions that not only that they are not representative of humans as a species, but on many measures they’re outliers. But while reading the article, I learned and realized that the WEIRD ways of living and thinking has become more and more widespread around the world. It is a evolving process, an evolution by natural selection of cultural practices. Westerners did not become WEIRD out of nowhere, they went through a process of changed cultural practices, and according to the article, the Roman Catholic Church’s Marriage and Family Program might have played a very crucial role in changing in Westerners’ and particularly North Americans’ culture.

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Article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-18/facebook-accused-of-watching-instagram-users-through-cameras

Surprise surprise, facebook is spying on us again! This article talks about how the social network giant Facebook may be accessing people’s cameras through the app Instagram when they are not aware of it in order to gather data to sell.

This has become more and more of an issue over the years as the internet has developed. Though most people have only learnt the extent of it in the last ten years or so. Facebook denies these claims as being a bug in the application, but others contest that they are simply playing dumb.

Usually when tech companies are caught in situations like this they either play dumb or quickly change back in an attempt to avoid official legislation. Making it very tricky to make laws against it, especially as everyone on Earth uses such applications and websites.

It will be interesting to see in the future how much this stuff affects our lives even more. Will we even care anymore? Will it just be normalized to see your baby pictures in an advertisement? Where do we draw the line?

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Week 2: Black Lives Matter.

Article :
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-lives-matter-police-reform-opinion-poll-28-06-2020/

This article primarily focuses on the death of the Black man George Floyd on May 5,2020.As the above mentioned person was brutally killed  by the white policeman.In the Article it is clearly discussed that Black lives matter movement is of certain importance and the also that Police reform is very essential in the present time..Black Lives matter movement is described as the movement which is held to protest against the ill behavior of the police towards the black people and also to stand against the methods of violence used by them. According to me everyone is equal and the government has provided same rights to each and every person. Although,The police has the power to do certain things on their own that doesn't mean that they can do whatever they want.Every person whether of any caste or creed has to be treated equally.

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Week 3
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Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/love-in-the-time-of-covid-19-from-romantic-distancing-to-apocalypse-partners-1.4863291

This article from CTV is focused on the emotional benefits for people in quarantine, Canada.

The article describes stories of people becoming more emotionally involved with one another, by forces they cannot control, and many other emotional factors that result in either broken or stronger bonds. Unfortunately, this change has also proved to have increased the number of domestic violence incidents, and it would be interest to see how, as the article puts it, COVID-19 changes how people's relationships and interactions with one another go.

The reason I chose this article because I'm wondering how different cultures would react to this situation. I'm aware that people in China have realized their partners were not right for them. Something similar will most likely happen in Canada and the US.

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I chose this Global News report on the increase in Lyme disease cases across North America and can be done to prevent contraction.

The number each year is documented at 30,000 new cases but is estimated to be closer to about 400,000 per year, this is actually resulted in the actions of our own doing; global warming. Cases are rising dramatically since the 80’s and due to global warming, the ticks who carry this disease are  provided a warm environment to grow and reproduce. The lack of people who remain unbothered is concerning considering the serious health issues that accompany this disease. Though there has been a slight increase in funding in Canada for Lyme research, the education surrounding this disease still remains at a minimum level of awareness and symptoms are often overlooked or misdiagnosed because of this.

What I learned from this is how severe this disease is, it has me wondering why there isn't more education considering it can be contracted to anyone through common activities such as hikes. It is important to be aware of this and know how to prevent it, especially if you are a person who enjoys wilderness activities like I do.

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It's summer in North America and that means more people are outside enjoying the great outdoors. But, for some, simply heading out for a summer hike could make them sick.

There's an increasing number of people across North America and around the world contracting Lyme disease. Lyme used to be considered an isolated disease found in North America and parts of Europe but it's now found in 80 countries worldwide.

Its rise in North America has been particularly alarming. In the U.S. alone, the Centers for Disease Control says there are some 30,000 cases a year, but the CDC concedes the number is likely significantly higher than that. The Lyme Disease Association estimates the number is closer to a staggering 400,000 a year.

Some experts are sounding the alarm, calling it a pandemic.

"There are many countries around the world that are struggling with Lyme disease. It is a pandemic... There's little doubt about that because it is so widely spread," said Mary Beth Pfeiffer, an award-winning investigative journalist from upstate New York.

Pfeiffer began investigating Lyme disease when so many people in her community began getting sick and her initial research for the Poughkeepsie Journal eventually turned into a book, Lyme: The first Epidemic of Climate Change.

Health effects of Lyme

Lyme disease is caused by a bacteria called Borrelia burgdorferi that the tick contracts from hosts like deer or rodents. It's then passed on to humans after a walk in tall grass or a hike in the wilderness.

"The bacteria is called a spirochete because of its spiral shape, and that gives it a great amount of motility so it's able to move around in your system and throughout your tissue quite readily," said Jim Wilson, the founder of the Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation (CanLyme).
Wait, There's More: Lyme disease is spreading in Canada. Is climate change to blame?
The good news is that if a tick bite is caught early, within the first few hours or weeks, a course of antibiotics can pretty much eliminate the disease. But if it isn't, that spirochete can wreak havoc on the body.

"Once you miss the opportunity to treat it acutely, the bacteria can disseminate from the site of tick bite," said Dr. Kieran Moore, the principal investigator with the Canadian Institute of Health Research-funded Canadian Lyme Disease Research Network.

"It can be spread to your joints and cause rheumatological Lyme or it can spread into nerve tissue and cause nerve tissue damage, or it can attach to the muscle of the heart and the nerve conduction system of the heart and cause all types of different cardiac presentations."

Unfortunately, many cases of Lyme aren't caught early enough and patients continue to deteriorate without knowing why.

"I just kept deteriorating with really weird heart palpitations and cognitive issues like unable to concentrate, slurred speech, trouble swallowing, light sensitivity, sound sensitivity and just a rapid deterioration to the point where I had to come home from work," said Barry Philpott, a Lyme disease patient.

Why it's so hard to get treatment

Philpott isn't the only patient who describes a decline in health without any explanation before finally getting a Lyme disease diagnosis. It's virtually never the first thing a doctor looks for and Moore says that's part of the problem.

"We need significant work to educate physicians both in the front lines - emergency medicine and primary care - as well as our specialist colleagues regarding the myriad of signs and symptoms that Lyme disease can present as," said Moore.

The other issue: there is still no completely reliable test for Lyme.

"We know that the current diagnostic tests for Lyme disease are insensitive," said Moore.
WATCH: (July 2, 2019) Canadian doctors struggling to diagnose Lyme disease
Canadian doctors struggling to diagnose Lyme disease

These diagnostic tests are particularly insensitive in the early stages of the disease, which means people could be going undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, leaving them vulnerable. Physicians and advocates for patients say this is the time to be especially vigilant.

"If someone presents in June, July or August just with undifferentiated fever, chills, muscle aches, headaches, neck stiffness... think Lyme disease," said Moore.

Lyme and why it isn't going away

Lyme isn't going away. If anything, it's getting worse.

"It has spread very quickly from the early '80s onwards and we think that's associated with climate change," said Moore.

Pfeiffer, the investigative journalist, agrees.

" There are a number of things that are driving this epidemic and climate is one of the prime ones," Pfeiffer said. "We're certainly seeing that it's warmer and it's more humid in many places, especially in Canada, in the U.S., in the northeast and the midwest England."

In her research, Pfeiffer also found a general lack of alarm over the disease, which she says is part of the reason Lyme has gone under-diagnosed and under-treated, especially in North America.

"We don't have a handle and we need to do the work that we haven't done," she said. "I often compare Lyme disease to AIDS. The AIDS virus was identified in 1983. The Lyme disease bacterium was identified in 1981.

"The number of clinical trials that have been done for AIDS number about 11,000. You look at clinical trials for Lyme disease, there's about 60. When I looked up those numbers it amazed me. Sixty trials for Lyme disease, 11,000 for AIDS.

"I'm not saying that AIDS did not deserve the attention it got, but Lyme disease is not getting the attention it deserves."

Solutions to combating Lyme disease

Experts agree that it's incumbent upon the medical community to start treating Lyme disease with more urgency. Since 2017 there has been a slight increase in funding for research in Canada. But other countries, including the U.S. are slower. Canada has also started educating physicians on recognizing signs and symptoms. However, it's also important for people to educate themselves.

"Number one, educating people about the risk. Wherever you are going camping this year you should know, are ticks present and is the agent that causes Lyme disease present in those ticks, and you should be taking the appropriate precautions," Dr. Moore said.

"Wear light-coloured clothing so you can see the ticks if they drop off the leaves or grasses and fall on to you. Use a repellant like DEET or Picaridin to repel the ticks off your clothing or skin."

The message: until there is more research and more treatment available, prevention is the best medicine.
- With files from Ely Bahhadi

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This article was published in 2015 but I think this topic is still interesting to think about. The U.S Supreme Court has declared that same-sex marriage has to be allowed in every state. There were already 34 states which have a marriage license between same sex but since then, every state will revise the rules following the court’s decision. In contrast, I have to say the society is still not open to gay people in Korea. People never express freely what they are because they would be denied by the society and be judged cruel by people around. For me, it was also a cultural shock when I first came to Canada that people do not hide their identities either they are gay or others. One of my co-workers at Starbucks Canada was a gay too but we used to casually share our thoughts about relationships or any topics. As I felt, the society has not only admitted differences and respected individuals. In my opinion, this article gives us a huge message that we should re-consider what discrimination is. Racism, the most well-known discrimination, is not the only discrimination in the world we live.

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Article : https://globalnews.ca/news/5972044/indigenous-educator-edmonton-orange-shirt-day-residential-schools/

As Orange shirt day is approaching I couldn’t have found a better article to choose for this week. This article focuses on an indigenous educator by the name of Amanda Lamothe that is working with schools to raise awareness for this day. As mentioned in this article orange shirt day started in 2013 after a story was made public about a young girl who had her orange shirt taken from her during residential school. Amanda goes on to stress how many things were taken from children during these times such as thier history, art and even their language. I was shocked and disappointed to learn that the last school was closed in 1996. Although I may never understand the pain and suffering Indigenous people went through, I stand by them and am hopeful that the government will take more initiative to spread awareness in other ways. Lamothe mentioned near the end of the article the stereotypes that follow indengious people in Canada and like she said its important to remember that they were here first and this is their land. (180)

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Article: https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/hajdu-brings-anthropology-public-health-experience-to-covid-19-fight

This National Post article focuses on cultural anthropologist Patty Hajdu and the role she's playing in the fight against Covid19. She is urging people to stay in their homes in order to remain safe and healthy. As more and more scientists and academics speak out about the importance of taking precautions against the virus, I'm learning more about just how dangerous this virus really is. Some people aren't wearing masks etc and I think everybody need to start actually taking our health and safety more seriously. Hajdu also speaks on running Thunder Bay's drug strategy and Shelter House. I think her knowledge could be very beneficial in helping with Covid19.

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OTTAWA - Patty Hajdu "fell in love" with cultural anthropology at university.

Now, as Canada's federal health minister in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, she's playing a leading role in an existential battle against a virus that promises to change the course of human societies around the globe - the very thing cultural anthropologists spend their lives studying.

"There's a piece of me that's still an anthropologist at heart, if you will," Hajdu said in an interview.

As she almost daily urges Canadians to hole up at home and keep physical distance between one another, the anthropologist in Hajdu can't help wondering: "How is this going to change the way that we relate to each other as humans? And this is global so how is it going to change the way the human species interacts with each other?"

Hajdu also has a background in public health, having worked for nine years on the substance abuse and injury prevention program for the Thunder Bay District Public Health Unit, including spearheading the northern Ontario city's drug strategy.

Her education and experience in public health before entering politics in 2015 would seem to uniquely position the silver-haired, 53-year-old for the lead role she's playing now in the COVID-19 crisis. Yet, she frankly admits nothing prepared her for this.

"As the health minister, obviously I'm focused on all of the things that I have to do in my job to help support this response. But as a citizen of Canada and a regular human being, I'm probably just as much in shock as every other person," she says.

"And there's that anthropology piece again but it's just hard to imagine that society could change so quickly, on a dime."

When she first started at Thunder Bay's public health unit, in her early thirties, she recalls the emphasis on pandemic preparedness and conversations with the unit's epidemiologist who kept warning that the globe was due for "the big one."

"I was like, 'Oh yeah, okay, fine.' Because there's an arrogance to humanity that we couldn't possibly be taken to our knees by a virus, like we know so much more than they knew a hundred years ago, right? And here we are."

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered her the health portfolio after last fall's election, Hajdu figured her priorities would be dealing with the opioid crisis and development of a national pharmacare program. Within a month of being sworn in, news of a novel coronavirus spreading in China popped up on her radar and within another month it had overtaken everything else.

Liberal insiders are relieved to have Hajdu at Health Canada's helm during the crisis. She is widely perceived as one of the government's best communicators - smart and knowledgeable but plain spoken, someone who can deliver tough messages in a calm, down-to-earth way while still managing to convey compassion for people who are fearful or suffering - as she did when she choked up a couple of weeks ago as she urged Canadians to be kind to one another.

But it's not just her Liberal colleagues who are impressed.

NDP health critic Don Davies says Hajdu is "the most engaging and the most willing to reach out" of the three Liberal health ministers he's dealt with.

"It's clear to me that she cares and she's compassionate and she has a big heart ... That usually comes from people who have had, I think, life experiences that have shaped them in that way," he says.

Hajdu gained her early life experiences at the school of hard knocks. She and her brother were raised by an aunt and uncle in Minnesota during their early years. She eventually moved back to Thunder Bay to be with her mother but left home at just 16. She declines to go into details, other than to say it was "a difficult story."

She raised two sons, now adults, as a single mom and along the way earned an undergraduate degree from Lakehead University, with a major in cultural anthropology, and a Masters degree in public administration from the University of Victoria.

After heading up Thunder Bay's drug strategy, Hajdu took on the job of running Shelter House, a homeless shelter which was employing the kinds of harm reduction practices she'd been advocating.

"It was a very needy place and she just pushed boundaries and made it better," says Ena DePeuter, Hajdu's former boss at the Thunder Bay District Public Health Unit. She adds that Hajdu has natural empathy for vulnerable people.

"I think she knew from the ground-level up because she's been in difficult places in her own past and she could relate to people very well."

Hassan Yussuff, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, was similarly impressed when he got to know Hajdu during her two-and-a-half-year stint as employment and labour minister during the Trudeau government's first mandate. He found her to be warm, open, willing to listen, and genuinely committed to trying to make life better for working people.

"When she came into the Labour program, she wasn't from labour but I think without a doubt everybody who worked with her over the period she was there ... really loved her and enjoyed working with her," Yussuff says.

"I think Canadians are quite fortunate to have her as the health minister during this crisis because I think she brings that experience from the community work she had done over the years to the cabinet table. And I think it's unique to have a minister who was in that reality, knowing what it's like to be in the frontlines with people who are struggling with the odds against them."

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 5, 2020.

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Article: https://www.businessinsider.com/uncle-bens-unveils-bens-original-name-after-racial-stereotyping-criticism-2020-9

Popular rice brand Uncle Ben’s is renaming it’s rice brand to Ben’s Originals as well as getting a new mascot after outrage over its use of “Uncle” referring to a black man. Which what I have learned is what slave owners/racists used to call black men to make them lesser than a white Mr.

Some people have called this a cheap ploy to appeal to a demographic, while others believe this is something that has had to be done for a long time. I personally think that it is good that it is changing if it has racist roots. Although I have a hard time believing a corporation does any good without a financial incentive.

I do not think it is my place to say what can be considered offensive to a people of which I do not belong to. But it is interesting to see the recent BLM protests have some sort of apparent effect on society. Though I have read many of those involved in BLM merely see moves like these as weak compromises to racial reform.

Our world, culture, and taboos are forever changing. Something that is acceptable in one time period would be inexcusable in the other. Such as the ethnocentric anthropologists of the past. It is our job to try and fix our past mistakes.

Without Uncle Ben’s rice: 7/10

With Ben’s Originals: 10/10

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Name: Iona Yu
Article Reference: https://us.cnn.com/2020/09/28/us/teacher-terminal-cancer-house-painted-trnd/index.html

For this week, I read an article about a 45-year-old teacher who had been diagnosed with colon cancer. Tim Gjoraas, the man diagnosed with colon cancer, retired as a teacher who taught 22 years at a high school decided it was best to focus more on his family, for he had only a few months to spare. It was this month, September, where he decided to paint his house for a new look. When he posted photos online on this topic, many individuals decided to donate money and support his house by going over and painting along with him.

As the article continued to share his journey, it made me realize that having a community that offers to support or do what they can to help another individual is very meaningful, as well as to every human that is involved or that has seen and shared the article. Although other people may think that these kinds of actions are small, they show strong relationships and influence through humans and a change in how humans see each other through the years. Whether it is a different culture or color, there is always a society of people ready to provide and aid another different society.

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A teacher with terminal cancer wanted to repaint his house for his wife. A dozen people came to help

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Tim Gjoraas' life has rapidly changed over the past year and a half since he was diagnosed with colon cancer.

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Week 3: Humans have altered North America’s ecosystems more than melting glaciers

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Week 3: Humans have altered North America’s ecosystems more than melting glaciers

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Article: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/humans-have-altered-north-america-s-ecosystems-more-melting-glaciers
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Just as the title states, this article discusses human's impact on North America's ecosystems. There are many arguments presented in the article to argue if it is actually human that has more of an impact on the ecosystems than the last glaciers. In the end, there is a report that shows humans have abruptly and intensely change the ecosystems from land use change to pollution and perhaps even climate change.
I choose this article because the ecosystem contributes greatly to human welfare and survival, so it is our duties to protect and nurture it. While many people advocate for the protection of the ecosystem, others ignore or simply are not informed well enough to care about this issue. I think this is an urgent issue that needs to be addressed immediately, or else not only North American people's lives are affected, the whole entire human race will likely come to extinction.

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Week 4
Article Reference: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200925113617.htm

This article is based on the how the American public has reacted to COVID-19, and in particular, their attitudes and perceptions of the whole pandemic, from the research done by anthropologists investigating the trend of reactions, and noting them down for future use.

This article is significant, in terms of the good that anthropology can do: It can help us understand how to be as effective at treating a specific threat, such as a virus, while also being just as effective at treating the mental and emotional aspect within different cultures.

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Article Reference:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/african-movie-festival-in-manitoba-ben-akoh-1.5740702

In this article, it is focusing on diversity in movie industry. Recently, there was an African Movie Festival held in Manitoba and 11 different countries participated in with 18 films totally. This year, more African countries came to the festival and people expect that this may help to break stereotypes of any Black characters’ movies. There was a high-profile event in film industry early this year that a Korean movie “Parasite” won 4 Oscar awards which surprised filmdom. This record leads a movement of art industry that makes people around the world pay more attention to Asian cultures and diversities like the African film festival caught the public eye. Although diverse cultures such as music, movies, food are shared in this connected world even more than the past, I think there are still cultural stereotypes exist and we should keep trying to work on breaking them.

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Article:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/black-lives-matter-ojibway-language-change-1.5598961

I chose this article again because of its relevancy with the chapter we are covering this week as it is language and this article fits perfectly. This article focuses on how in some older languages – black people are still referred as outdated and inappropriate terms. A specific example which Simone gave in this article was that on some posts online in the Ojibway language black lives matter was being translated to black meat which is repulsive in many ways. It’s interesting to view this because to the elders who speak this language they may not see it as even remotely wrong but as times are changing we need to learn to be more compassionate to the ones we share this earth was. Its touching to read how much Simone is advocating for respectful language – as it’s never too late. (139)

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Article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/indigenous-remains-repatriation-efforts-1.5489390

This article focuses on the attempt to repatriate cultural treasures and ancestral human remains. Vince Collison, a 58 year old man, began repatriating these remains when he was 33 and helped create an inventory of Haida ceremonial objects and remains held by collectors and museums worldwide. So far, about 500 remains have been returned to Haida Gwaii since 1999. This article helps us understand that even though we are interested to learn about these remains and cultures, the aspect of respect in the field is still required, these are still ancestors and must be treated as such. I'm also learning from this article that there are many programs being set in place to preserve and respectfully study these remains such as the Karanga Aotearoa repatriation program headed by Te Herekiekie Herewini with the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. the article states that the museum of Anthropology here in Vancouver has also returned all belongings that have been requested by First Nations. I'm hoping that one day all the artifacts can be studied in such a way that is respectful to the indigenous cultures and ancestors as well as provide us with the ability to learn more about them.

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Vince Collison was 33 when he got involved with repatriating cultural treasures and ancestral human remains to Haida Gwaii. Today, the work isn't over for the silver-haired 58-year-old.

Collison helped create an inventory of Haida ceremonial objects and human bones held by collectors and museums possessed worldwide.

When the Haida people learned how many ancestors' remains were around the world - 500 have been returned to Haida Gwaii since 1999 - they were shocked.

"We were horrified to find the amount of ancestral [human] remains - our ancestors - stored away in museums all over the place," Collison said.

Those efforts started for the Haida more than 20 years ago and continue today for Indigenous people around the world - a process slowed by cost, complex museum regulations and what some call "institutional arrogance."

"They still have a very extensive collection of our people. They still have a collection of our world. And it's not right that they have our ancestors."

Attitudes from the 19th century are behind the spiriting way of human remains. The U.S.-based Smithsonian Institution has explained that scientists and collectors sought skulls, bones and skeletons to research theories about race, evolution and human history. Although theories about racial superiority from the era have since been discredited, objects taken in its name remain stored in institutions around the world and are the subject of debate today.

Repatriating human remains an issue in 2020

A recent two-day conference at the University of British Columbia gave Indigenous people from around the world a chance to compare notes on repatriation of their artifacts and human history.

Indigenous people from B.C., the United States, Hawaii, Nicaragua and New Zealand were among the attendees.

Te Herekiekie Herewini heads up the Karanga Aotearoa repatriation program with the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa located in the capital of Wellington.

"Unfortunately, cultural artifacts and human remains were taken from their sacred repositories, uplifted and traded through colonial museums around the world."

In New Zealand, plundering ancestral remains and cultural objects happened in the 1860s. More than 150 years later, it remains an issue because of "institutional arrogance," Herewini said.

"Institutions and museums around the world don't recognize Indigenous people's rights to get their cultural items and [ancestral] human remains back," he said. "They still perceive that they are the owners of these ancestral remains."

UBC's collection

Indeed, the conference was held on UBC's campus which is also home to thousands of Indigenous cultural artifacts housed in the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) and Laboratory of Archeology.

Susan Rowley, the Museum of Anthropology's curator and chair of its repatriation committee, says the museum has returned all belongings that have been requested by First Nations. The most recent repatriation was last summer and involved a Haida mortuary pole, Rowley noted in an email.

Rowley acknowledges there are bones from Indigenous people stored in the Laboratory of Archeology, which has its repatriation policy requiring more than a dozen steps to complete. The museum also has some items made from human bones, as well as several decorative skulls from Indigenous communities outside of North America, she said.

"It is UBC's position that the collections within the Museum of Anthropology are owned by UBC," she said. "This does not include the ancestral remains at the Lab of Archeology or the archeological collections at the Lab of Archeology."

Those remains are held in trust under the Heritage Conservation Act of British Columbia, Rowley added.

The Lab of Archeoology has been involved in repatriating ancestral remains domestically and internationally since 1991, Rowley said. All repatriation cases to both the Laboratory of Archeology and the Museum of Anthropology have been successful, she said.

Rowley wouldn't discuss any active repatriation cases underway, citing confidentiality.

'We can tell our own story'

When the Haida repatriated the remains of six ancestors from UBC's Lab of Anthropology in 1999, a delegation arrived with six new bentwood boxes to carry them home.

Since then, their repatriation efforts have resulted in the recovery of more than 500 Haida ancestral remains from museums around the world.

"Our ancestral remains were studied for certain things, or they never did anything with them, and just stored them away," said Collison, a member of the Haida Gwaii repatriation committee. "The largest collections are pretty much home now, but we never say never."

We can tell our own story. That's my point. - Vince Collison

The fight isn't over, he says.

"We're doing as best as we can to get to the next stage of working with our communities a lot more, but also getting a lot of our ancestors' treasures back home to Haida Gwaii to Masset in the north end and Skidegate in the south."

Collison says controlling the narrative of how institutions portray ancestral remains is a big challenge facing Indigenous people.

"We understand we're living in 2020 and we have to try and educate the public about who we are. We can tell our own story, that's my point."

New Zealand success

Several conference presenters said that funding is a barrier to successful repatriation.

Repatriation in New Zealand is largely successful because it has been state funded and international in scope for the last 17 years, Hereiwni says. The funding supports research, outreach, diplomatic travel and transportation of ancestors back to New Zealand from across the world, he says.

"Our ancestors belong with their communities of origin, and they deserve to be cared for by their descendants, and they deserve to be respected and offered dignity in their homelands," Herewini said.

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Week 3
Name: Suzanne Guerin
Word Count: 151

This CBC article shares the story of a residential school survivor by the name of Marina Fisher, her journey towards healing involves her contributions to other survivors to reconnect to their language and traditional ceremonies and culture.

As we know, culture is an essential factor in the way that we live our lives and is very important for one's identity and without it we can become lost. I have family members who who attended these schools and never spoke our language again, and many of which have passed away leaving hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ (musqueam language) behind and endangered.

This article made me happy to see the resilient indigenous women continue to thrive after all they've endured, I think this can be a learning experience for us all, no matter how hard life treats you there is always room for growth and it is never too late to start on the road to healing.

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One residential school survivor continues her own healing journey by helping other former students reconnect to their language and ceremonies.

"It makes me feel proud of being Anishinaabe. It makes me feel like I'm doing something to help at least one person," said Martina Fisher.

Fisher, Anishinaabekwe from Bloodvein First Nation, went to the Assiniboia Indian Residential School in Winnipeg from 1969 to 1972.

"Many people that went to residential school lost their language because they were hit when they tried to speak their language," said Fisher.

"People in those times began to dislike themselves, to dislike who they were as Anishinaabe. Now it's time that they reconnect to their language, reconnect to their spirit and way of life."

Fisher said she didn't go back to her ceremonies and culture until she was in her late 30s.

For the last nine years, she has worked as a cultural advisor at Wa-Say Healing Centre, an organization in downtown Winnipeg that works with residential school survivors.

"Before that I was always living in fear of god. Once I reconnected, then I was proud of who I was as Anishinaabe," she said.

Working with families

At Wa-Say Healing Centre, the organization has a ceremony room to help connect residential school survivors to their culture.

Fisher said they help people heal by relearning their language, introducing them to the traditional ways, "just reintroducing them to be proud of who they are. To learn again what Anishinaabe is, and start healing from there."

She said that for a lot of former students that she works with, just talking about the schools can reopen wounds, making them fresh again. Part of her job is doing trauma and grief workshops, and working with families who have gone through the effects of residential schools.

She said it took a long time for her to figure out why her parents raised her the way that she was raised, and that it also had an effect on her own parenting.

"I'm still paying for it because my children are having a hard time dealing with the emotional part of the way they were brought up," she said.

"That's why a lot of grandparents today say we have a better chance of bonding and teaching our grandchildren and great-grandchildren than we did with our own children, because now we realize that they need a lot more nurturing and love and care that the children in the Indian Residential Schools did not receive; they did not have that love that they deserved."

She said it's important that others are educated to understand the results of "colonization, trauma, genocide, you name it."

Change of plans for Orange Shirt Day

Over the past several years, Wa-Say Healing Centre has organized large community events in Winnipeg to mark Orange Shirt Day on Sept. 30.

Orange Shirt Day is meant to honour the thousands of Indigenous students who attended residential schools. It was started by residential school survivor Phyllis Webstad, who had her orange shirt taken away on her first day of residential school.

This year Wa-Say has been forced to move the event online, after a 10-person gathering limit was introduced in Winnipeg on Monday.

"Plans have changed drastically since last Friday," said Wa-Say's executive director, Wayne Mason.

The new plan invites people to the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Facebook page at 11 a.m. Wednesday for a live segment that will feature addresses from Manitoba's grand chiefs, as well as elders and residential school survivors.

Mason, who attended day school in Fisher River and Peguis First Nation, said Orange Shirt Day is a day that can be used to honour both the students of residential schools and day schools.

Federal/Indian day schools operated separately from residential schools but were operated by many of the same groups that ran residential schools. Their operation spanned from the 1860s to the 1990s.

Mason said there will also be a pipe ceremony at the Manitoba legislative building at noon Wednesday. He is asking for all pipe carriers in Manitoba to join them by smoking their pipes at home at the same time.

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One residential school survivor continues her own healing journey by helping other former students reconnect to their language and ceremonies. "It makes me feel proud of being Anishinaabe. It makes me feel like I'm doing something to help at least one person," said Martina Fisher.

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Article: https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cannabis/20/09/17609678/ann-arbor-votes-to-legalize-psychedelic-plants-and-fungi/

The Michigan town of Ann Arbor has become the third city in the United States to decriminalize the use and growth of psychedelic (also called entheogenic) plants and fungi. This does not at all mean it is fully legal at the federal level, but it does mean that the legal system is told to not put any resources towards fighting use/growth/distribution of such substances.

The proposal came to pass as a viable solution for use in therapy to help those with trauma, addiction problems, and other illnesses that are hard to cure with other methods. Where as these substances have been shown to help in the right setting.

I think this is a great step forward because I personally do not believe the government should have a choice for what someone is able to put into their own body. I think that we should be offering services to help those affected by addiction instead of criminalizing their existence. And also providing a more realistic approach to drug education.

From an anthropological perspective I find it really interesting how different cultures approach the use of drugs. With many using them in rituals in the past. Even our modern western culture has really gotten its current attitude in the last one hundred years or so. With heroin and cocaine formally being used in everything from cold medicine to soft drinks. I would be interested to learn more about past cultures' thoughts on them, I am sure many thought they were brought from gods. Could be an interesting read.

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Name: Iona Yu
Article:
The article I chose for this week talks about traditional naming in the Inuit cultures. In the Inuit tradition, it is common to name a child with the traditional cultural names so that their cultures are passed along the family and to remember loved ones who have passed away. Keeping traditional names can demonstrate respect and practices of different cultures.

In my opinion, I genuinely believe traditional cultures have a reason to name their children with a similar name or surname from their family history. I know it is important to maintain the family style and culture because in order to remember the traditions and beliefs of ones culture, you need to make sure you are fairly holding onto the family traditions by keeping traditional names or do traditional activities. I can almost relate to the importance of their Inuit traditions because I was born in a family with strict traditions that needed to be celebrated every year such as Chinese New Year to help celebrate the new year or clean our rooms to keep the bad luck from the previous year. In addition, my surname is also connected to my family culture because it is good to continue our traditions through our children. :)

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CBC North is doing a series on the history and significance of Inuit names. Traditional names hold great respect and honour. There are long-held Inuit beliefs that people take on the characteristics of their namesake, and that spirits live on through them. Many Inuit have close connections with the person who named them, as well as people who have the same name.
In Inuit culture, a name carries weight.

Inuit hold strong beliefs around how children are named and take great care in choosing a name for an infant. Traditionally, elders or parents named children, often after blood relatives, revered leaders or hunters, or exceptional people.

Naming a child is a serious undertaking because "we must show absolute respect to the child and the person's name," said Millie Kuliktana, who was a consultant on the Nunavut school curriculum in the 1990s.

Traditional names can carry great responsibility, with the belief that children can share physical and personality traits with their namesakes.

"There are some things where a symbol shows up or an action, or sometimes a child would just say a phrase that takes the family by surprise," Kuliktana said.

"It would be the namesake coming out in that child."

Kuliktana says there is often an expectation on a child to take on strong qualities, like a great hunter. She says families and elders help develop those characteristics in the child.

"On the negative side, an individual can feel that they are not living up to their name," she said.

"But then they're also reminded that we have to strive for what we can, and we can give it our best."

Spirit is passed on to a child

Naming is an "important institution," according to Inuuqatigiit, The Curriculum from the Inuit Perspective - a 1996 document that was created as "an educational link between the past and the present."

One of the beliefs in the wide-ranging curriculum is that "a person never really dies, their spirit is passed on to a child."

"That is so much practised today," said Kuliktana, who consulted on the curriculum for the Kitikmeot School Board. "It really helps the family heal in their grieving for the lost one."

In some cases, a parent or elder will have a dream about someone who has died, which is a sign of what to name the child.

In Kuliktana's community of Kugluktuk, Nunavut, it's believed that when a person dies, their spirit should have time to rest and cross over, and their name should also be given time "to rest before being reborn in someone else."

"So don't name the children after someone right away. You allow that person's spirit to pass for about a year before you use that name again," she said.

Kuliktana says children often have close connections with their namesakes, the person who named them, and with others who share that name.

Her daughter Adjiukak, for example, was named after "the most generous lady that lived" in Kugluktuk. She shares her name with 20 others, and Kuliktana says she has a "unique friendship" with them.

"It's such a beautiful thing with Inuit names," she said.

Naming landmarks can be disrespectful

Saa Pitsiulak, an Inuktitut language program officer with Nunavut's Department of Culture and Heritage, said waiting for a name to rest is a widely held belief among elders in the Kivalliq region, as well.

Pitsiulak says her department makes annual trips to the communities to interview elders about Inuit customs. She says they ask questions about naming infants - who should do it, when it should happen, who should be consulted.

"Elders in the Kivalliq region made a pretty strong statement that they really respected their elders and their parents. So they waited for their parents to name their children," she said.

"It was not the parents' responsibility" to name their children.

Pitsiulak says they're seeing more and more people giving their children non-Inuit names today.

In all of the regions, she said, elders "are very strong about keeping traditions alive" and say children should know their ancestors.

Elders in the Kivalliq have also spoken about community landmarks being named after people without consultation, she said.

"They felt it was being disrespectful to name such buildings or roads after people."

Wrong name can have consequences

It's said that a birthmark can appear on a child that is the same as their namesake's - or that infants can become sickly if given the wrong name.

Kuliktana said she saw a sad example of that in the descendents of a woman named Qimniq. Qimniq was a woman, but both girls and boys were given her name, as is common with Inuit names.

But Kuliktana says a high percentage of her male descendents passed on young.

"That made a flag for the family members that maybe Qimniq just wants to be a female," she said. "Maybe that name will only be given to women."

Inuit names don't always have meaning, though Kulikatana says some Inuit are given nicknames based on their personalities.

Her father, for example, was named Pigalak, but his nickname was Aqpaaq "the one who ran ahead."

Keeping traditions alive

Nunavut's Department of Education said the K-12 Inuuqatigiit curriculum is still used in the territory's schools today.

"It is a valuable resource for educators that is referred to often," a spokesperson said in an email. The naming module is part of the Grade 10 Inuktitut program.

The Culture and Heritage department also sends resources, based on research and interviews, to Nunavummiut, schools, daycares and radio stations about Inuit customs and traditions, Pitsiulak said.

Kuliktana says she would like to see more parents sharing the importance of naming with their children. She says those conversations are lacking nowadays.

"We don't give names to people for the sake of naming them. We give them a name that we totally respect," she said.

"And you want that individual's spirit and being to continue to live with you in your society."

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Week 4:Forest wildfires.

ARTICLE:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200910130410.htm

This article revolves around the cases of wildfires that are occurring in the Us nowadays. The issue is described above, and it is mentioned that the main culprit who is behind these fires can be considered as humans. These all fires start because of the activities of the humans such as burning of the debris, use of equipment’s without proper knowledge. Almost 97% of all the wildfires occur due to human carelessness. And it can be seen that most of the money is spent to resolve this fire through firefighting agencies. Though the fire caused by the humans was relatively small, but the destruction was huge. This problem is not going to end soon. But it should be taken into consideration that the destruction done to the nature should be a major issue of concern and the people should try to take some measures to avoid the fire so that less amount of damage is provided to the environment.

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Week 4: TIMELINE | Same-sex rights in Canada

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Week 4: TIMELINE | Same-sex rights in Canada

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Article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/timeline-same-sex-rights-in-canada-1.1147516
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Just like the title suggests, this article is a timeline of same-sex rights in Canada. It starts with an individual acknowledging that he was gay and was unlikely to change in 1965 and was sent to prison shortly after in 1967 indefinitely as “a dangerous sex offender.” Fortunately, he was released in 1971 thanks to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s amendment to decriminalize homosexuality. I find this article interesting because topic relating to LGBT is becoming more and more popular each day. This topic is related to North American cultural anthropology in contexts of sexuality, how long it has come for the LGBT people to confidently have their own community. People need to be made aware of these LGBT rights so that discrimination against them can be put to an end, or at least to minimize it. If same-sex couples can get married legally in the land of Canada, then they have every right to live freely and without discrimination held up against them. Thanks to this article, I learn and am very impressed about how Canada has long stand up for the protection and promotion of human rights for the LGBT community. The support from the government shows that they value LGBT people just like anyone else.

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Article Reference:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/childrens-book-residential-schools-1.3933148

This article is about the early education of history for kindergarten children. Author David A. Robertson published a new book called “When We Were Alone” telling about residential schools. He believes that children should learn not only the bright side of history but also the painful side of it as early as they can. The book contains an introduction to Indigenous people starting with a casual conversation between a young girl and a grandmother. The reactions about the book from teachers are also very positive. One of teachers said it is significant for Indigenous children to study about their cultures and identities themselves. Many Indigenous people around us have not enough chances to learn how they are and what their background is. In my perspective, in Korea, we do not have cultural diversity yet in the society but it has been increasing. Also, learning out history and culture is emphasized and it is one of mandatory subjects in school from elementary to high school. As I have taught, every cultural background must be respected and it is interesting to share, so educators around the world should make more efforts on giving each of them pride since we live in a community with various cultural backgrounds.

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Article: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jonathan-kay-canadas-cultural-elites-have-seen-the-enemy-and-it-is-canadians

This National Post article first suggests that readers listen to Mike Duncan's podcast "Revolutions" that has detailed accounts of historical upheavals that have taken place over the last 400 years. It is explained in the article that in America's northers borderlands, Canadians broadly consisted of three separate groups: Indigenous societies, French Catholics and (largely) English-speaking Protestants. I learned from this article about how it seems that Canadians seem to be their own worst enemy, hence the title: "Canada's cultural elites have seen the enemy-and its Canadians". I also learned from the article that the idea that Indigenous political agitation did not lead to Canada's break-up, it did not come from Indigenous peoples at all but rather the many deals regarding oil mines and "broader issues". The article expresses that if there is any hope for Canada, it lies in the next generation of leaders.

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The idea that Indigenous political agitation would lead to Canada's break-up is not new. The shocking thing now is that the main threat doesn't actually come from Indigenous peoples

If you're interested in history, there's no better podcast than Mike Duncan's "Revolutions," which takes listeners through detailed accounts of the great historical upheavals of the last 400 years. Canada gets scant treatment, of course, since this country never truly witnessed a real revolution. But we do get a significant cameo during Duncan's 15-episode arc on the American Revolution. And seeing Canada (or, more accurately, what would become Canada) through the eyes of late 18th-century American revolutionaries is instructive.

In America's northern borderlands, "Canadians" - as we now call ourselves - broadly consisted of three separate groups: Indigenous societies, French Catholics in what would become Lower Canada, and (largely) English-speaking Protestants in what would become Upper Canada. For their own reasons, some First Nations participated in the American Revolutionary War, while French Catholics largely sat it out, having no particular interest in setting out from Montreal and Quebec City (which were already substantial towns with a well-developed civil society) to help two groups of anti-Catholic Anglophiles fight each over parochial trade and fiscal grievances.

As for English-speaking Canadians, on the other hand, Duncan points out that the question of our participation was somewhat moot, since we Anglos didn't then comprise a critical mass in regard to either politics or war-making. For the most part, English Canada was little more just a string of scattered supply depots, military barracks, ports, trading posts and tiny settlements. What did Americans think of Canadians? The short answer is they didn't. (And two and a half centuries later, they still don't: over four days of covering the Democratic primaries in New Hampshire earlier this month, I heard Canada mentioned exactly twice - once by Bernie Sanders as a prop for socialized medicine, and then again by Amy Klobuchar for a laugh line about how Minnesotans could see our country from their front porches.)

This is not the first time I've heard early Canadian history explained in this humbling way. But I found it especially resonant in this particular moment, with anti-pipeline protesters out on the streets of Canadian cities decrying the very presumption that our governments can assert sovereignty over Canada's own land mass, even with the explicit permission of elected First Nations band councils.

Twenty years ago, we bashed America. In 2020, we bash us.

Canada Is Fake, read the title of a widely circulated article published last week. Just a few years ago, that kind of headline might have seemed absurd to most of us. But in the current environment, I'm reminded that, insofar as history goes, it's hardly a novel claim. To many Quebecers, Anglo Canada was always simply the moral successor to a hated colonial occupier. To many Indigenous societies, we were genocidaires. To the United States, we remain the half-forgotten residue of whatever British military supply chain remained operational following the fall of Yorktown. Seen from the outside - and even some part of the inside - English Canada is indeed kind of "fake."

I grew up as an anglophone in Montreal and, following the expected Canadian journalistic practice, spent much of my career fretting and columnizing about the resurgence of Quebec separatism. This always felt like important work, because I'd spent my whole life assuming the French-English divide to represent the main threat to Canada's continued survival. But even as governments now move to break up the rail blockades, it now seems clear to me that this is no longer true. While it's convenient to blame Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's indecisive leadership for the crisis, these events do not arise in a vacuum. Rather, they follow on years during which our political, academic and journalistic elites denounced Canada itself as an ugly scar on traditional Indigenous lands. Trudeau himself has spent much of his time in office pledging himself to somehow absolve Canada of this original sin, and one suspects that his exit plan from politics involves him becoming some kind of dean of reconciliationology at a Canadian university.

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Canada survived Quebec separatism in part because our elites mobilized a massive campaign of propaganda to convince citizens of the enduring importance of the Canadian project. But in regard to resolving the grievances of Indigenous peoples, those same elites are now committed to the exact opposite project: a whole vocabulary ("settler," "neocolonial," "appropriation," etc.) and daily land-acknowledgment liturgy is broadcast 24/7 on the CBC, fetishized on social media and even broadcast as part of the morning announcements at public schools. Ultimately, this is why Trudeau felt checkmated by five Wet'suwet'en activists trying to torpedo a pipeline deal negotiated by their own legitimate elected band council. We've spent years declaring that Canada is garbage, hoping that an attitude of self-abasement would somehow lead us to "reconciliation." We forgot that when garbage talks, no one listens.

The idea that Indigenous political agitation would lead to Canada's break-up is not new. But the shocking thing about what we are now witnessing is that the main threat doesn't actually come from Indigenous peoples, who increasingly are becoming active partners in resource development. As many have noted, the Coastal GasLink project that was the subject of protests was approved by 20 out of 20 elected band councils in affected First Nations territories. Moreover, a Mohawk grand chief personally called for the end of rail blockades in Ontario a week ago (before having his own office then barricaded by protesters). Even amid this crisis, the Government of Alberta struck a deal with two Alberta First Nations for an open-pit oilsands mine. When Vancouver-based Teck Resources announced its withdrawal from the $20 billion project on Sunday, the cited reason wasn't Indigenous opposition - as Teck Frontier already had entered into agreements with 14 Indigenous groups in the affected era. Rather, the CEO (somewhat euphemistically) blamed the "much broader issues" now at play.

The political problem for Trudeau was never really the Indigenous activists themselves, so much as their urban white supporters. Indeed, it was never really a political problem at all, at least in the ordinary sense of balancing one interest group against another. The urban protesters who took to the streets exhibit Manichean tendencies, having been conditioned to regard resource development as an inherently evil form of geographic contamination, and to view Indigenous environmentalists - even those who oppose their own tribes' interests - as high prophets channelling a message of salvation. Consider a recent article that appeared in the Toronto Star, suggesting that our secular souls may hang in the balance: "The important step we need to take as Canadians is to inform ourselves about the history of genocide of Indigenous people. The blood is on our hands if we choose to ignore the people who lived on the land before us." This isn't the language of politics. It's the language of Sunday sermons.

It isn't clear how we an extract ourselves from this situation, since the way the GasLink deal was done in the first place - years of consultations, informed consent from affected bands, a fair distribution of economic benefits - is exactly what Indigenous groups themselves have always (rightly) demanded. And even if the immediate issue is definitively resolved in coming days, it won't solve the larger problem, which is that an enormous number of progressive Canadians have substituted the aforementioned enviro-spiritual creed in place of any baseline sense of national belonging. Specifically, they no longer accept the idea that our country has the moral right to insist on basic elements of nationhood: territorial sovereignty, the rule of law, the state's monopoly on the use of force, the integrity of internal trade and transportation networks, and the legitimacy of democratically elected representatives.

This is a much bigger problem than the blockades themselves, and it forces us to revisit the question of why Canada exists and what it's supposed to be. We've all been having a good laugh at Peter MacKay's attempts to use Twitter to stir up some kind of groundswell of old-school conservative patriotism. But think about his dilemma for a moment: how do you arouse patriotism in a country that has been instructed to regard itself - quite literally - as an ongoing "genocide" state? This is one of the farcical oddities of Trudeau's campaign to get a seat on the United Nations Security Council. By lazy cultural reflex, we have been conditioned to believe - to quote the 2017-era Indigo book-store slogan - "The World Needs More Canada." But in the wake of the MMIWG report, whose conclusions Trudeau accepted, that branding is now obsolete. Our new slogan is basically "Stop Us Before We Kill Again."

Years before a country falls apart in a formal way, it typically begins a process of cultural disintegration - which, if you look at the data, has been going on for some time in Canada. For one thing, we no longer have any kind of national literature, or at least none that people want to read. In 2005, 27 per cent of the books bought by English Canadians were written by Canadian authors. By 2019, that figure was down to 13 per cent, and I'd be surprised if it didn't soon drop to single digits. Similar patterns, I can attest, exist in the magazine industry. In the halls of Canadians arts and letters, I observed a powerful malaise born of the notion that the white grandees who still run the presses and own the galleries no longer have any moral authority to create, or even curate, any kind of national conversation that doesn't consist entirely of turgid and repetitive confession kabuki.

If there's a ray of hope, it lies in the next generation of leaders.

On Canadian campuses, meanwhile, many students are now programmed in the belief that an informed person demonstrates his or her commitment to reconciliation through acts of righteous "resistance" that align with Indigenous demands (or, at least, a certain kind of white-approved Indigenous demand). Rylan Higgins, a professor of anthropology at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, for instance, recently suggested that even "laid-off CN Rail workers could show solidarity" with the Indigenous protesters whose barricades got them thrown out of work. This is "urgent," he says, because "non-Indigenous people currently living on Turtle Island" - he means Canada - "(must) seek deep understanding of (Indigenous) resistance. (T)his resistance should form the cornerstone of attempts to educate young non-Indigenous people about Turtle Island. And this is because gaining this knowledge is the initial step toward an obligation that we non-Indigenous people must fulfil." And at Queens University in Ontario, commerce students now go through smudging ceremonies, which the university approvingly describes as a "ceremony for purifying or cleansing soul of negative thoughts of a person or place" - religious rituals, in other words.

Amazingly, this quasi-spiritual imperative now is seen as superseding the traditional demands of the Canadian left, which once were based in the rights of workers and unions. In the face of layoffs in the transportation sector, for instance, Higgins' own labour-union umbrella group, the Canadian Association of University Teachers, put out a press release on Feb. 20 "express(ing) solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en Nation and its Hereditary Chiefs who are insisting upon respect for their autonomy and sovereignty over their unceded land." When unions heap praise on the people putting unionized people out of work, you know that the forces of national self-hatred are reaching a tipping point.

Is it possible for Anglo Canada to rebuild some kind of positive national identity? If so, I think we will need to take stock of how our modern self-conception fell to pieces in the first place. Until roughly the late 2000s, Canada's identity was rooted largely in the idea that we were a poorer but more conscientious sidekick to America. Our whole multilateral (and occasionally pacifistic) shtick on the world stage, not to mention our system of cultural subsidies, was based on the conceit that our relative smallness and poverty compared to the United States masked some kind of well-hidden reserve of moral superiority. It was an insecure, passive-aggressive posture that often expressed itself as peevish anti-Americanism. But at the very least, it acted as a binding agent for an English-speaking Canadian intellectual establishment whose common culture otherwise was confined to hockey, cold weather and universal health care.

But during the Obama years, all of this was thrown into confusion, because the housing-loan crisis smashed America without much affecting Canada. Suddenly, we were no longer the poor cousin. At almost exactly the same time, Barack Obama's election in the United States, coupled with Stephen Harper's rise in Canada, reversed the left-right political valence that had powered Canadians' sense of moral superiority since the early years of the Cold War. Suddenly, we were the bad guys, and the whole organizing principle of Canadian intellectual life began to collapse. Into this vacuum came Idle No More, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the MMIWG report, the Indigenous backlash to Canada 150 - and Trudeau, whose political instincts are rooted in the confessional, self-lacerating spirit of political correctness that began to infect campus life at McGill University (and elsewhere) in the late 1980s and early '90s. Twenty years ago, we bashed America. In 2020, we bash us.

These things move in cycles, and it is possible that in a few years we may be facing the opposite problem: a populist counter-revolt that leads to a real culture of nativism and xenophobia in Canada. But given the blurring of social justice and environmentalism into a de facto religious movement, it's also possible to imagine that in my lifetime, B.C. will elect a hyper-progressive provincial government that truly does subordinate itself to some kind of as-yet-undefined overarching system of Indigenous spiritual or moral leadership. Even parts of Ontario and Atlantic Canada could succumb to this sort of phenomenon, with only Quebec, I think, being completely immune.

Ironically, many Indigenous people would themselves be horrified by such an economically regressive development, as they have just now gotten a seat at the table when it comes to pursing their just share of Canadian economic spoils. But recent developments show clearly that the Canadian left honours Indigenous people more as noble-savage protest mascots than as flesh-and-blood humans with real economic needs.

If there's a ray of hope, it lies in the next generation of leaders, who will be today's immigrants from China, India, Philippines, Syria and a hundred other places. These are people whose families came to Canada for a better life. And that better life did not include marching through the streets, ululating fidelity to Gaia and self-flagellating with barbed-wire dream-catchers. It wasn't their grandparents who ran the residential schools, after all, and few of them are stained with the Canadian Mark of Cain. These are the people who will finally put a punctuation mark at the end of the mania for weeping contrition that's taken hold of this country. They are the ones who will stand up and say, "there was a time for apologies, but that time is over."

Trudeau and the people around him are clearly not capable of doing this. Nor is the aging crew of guilt-addled old-stock Canadians clinging to leadership in Canadian media and arts. If they're looking for a way to demonstrate their "allyship" with both Indigenous people and new Canadian immigrants alike, the best option might be to simply pack up shop, let a new generation take over and retire to that great unspoiled Canadian wilderness whose sanctity they have long purported to protect.

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Article Reference: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54447099

This article is talks about a lawsuit filed by Texas, that indicted Netflix for portraying children in a "lewd exhibition" of underaged girls in a movie poster for the film "Cuties". The film director, Maïmouna Doucouré, who won an award at the Sundance festival, stated that the film was a "a deeply feminist film with an activist message". She had apparently received death threats as a result of this.

This article is interesting for the fact that we as a society are very fixated on how we portray women, as well as underaged girls, that it carries massive weight in different people's eyes. From an anthropological perspective, you could see this as how different societies perceive and react to topics of sexuality.

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https://globalnews.ca/news/7391837/sioux-valley-dakota-nation-declares-state-of-emergency-after-rash-of-suicides/

I chose this article because it was not only devastating to read but also a wake up call - as well it was something I had no clue was going on. This article touches on the increase of suicides in the indigenous community in western Manitoba. The community states that they need extra assistance and money to fund mental health support to prevent this in an open letter. Not only are they asking for extra mental care workers ( a total reasonable request) but also something more long term which is important when dealing with such a sensitive topic. This intrigued me because there are many layers to this article – not only are they already a visible minority group but they are also not getting the help they need from the government. Personally, I think mental health should be taken more seriously now than ever as we are amid a Pandemic. (151)

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Name: Iona Yu
Article: https://globalnews.ca/news/7356841/black-lives-matter-canada-poll/

Breonna Taylor was sadly part of a police shooting this year that involved black culture lives being mistreated and receiving non-professional treatment. This article talks about the deaths of innocent people and the uproar of many Canadians who purposely involve themselves in the Black Lives Matter community.

When we meet with different cultures than our own, it is important to acknowledge and care for what comes in their culture because in this world, everyone has different skin tones, languages, and human rights; these are things people should understand about other cultural relativism. For example, the Black Lives Matter community, their cultural relativism is similar to other beliefs or values. The article also shows a large percentage of Canadians that encourage the BLM movement, and this shows appreciation and other cultural efforts by providing support to another culture even if they were born differently.

I believe having acknowledgement towards new cultures can display wonderful connections between both communities. Sometimes looking at others beliefs, values, or differences can provide good education in younger generations or finding similarities in each other.

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America's streets are again pulsing with anger and frustration, this time over the deadly police shooting of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor - and the racial reckoning appears more popular in Canada than in the United States.

Protesters returned en masse to city centres across the U.S. in the latest display of racial outrage in 2020 after a grand jury in Kentucky opted Wednesday to not indict the officers who fired the fatal shots.

Taylor was killed in her own Louisville apartment in March when a botched drug raid aimed primarily at an ex-boyfriend erupted in a hail of bullets, precipitated when Taylor's boyfriend Kenneth Walker opened fire on what he said he thought was an intruder.

The indictments delivered Wednesday involved only a single officer: Brett Hankison, who faces three counts of wanton endangerment for blindly firing his weapon into the apartments of Taylor's neighbours.

Neither Hankison nor fellow officers Myles Cosgrove and Jonathan Mattingly, all three of whom were responsible for discharging more than 20 shots, are facing any charges related directly to the death of Taylor, who was hit multiple times.

Breonna Taylor timeline: Officer charged in case, but not with her death

The 2020 tumult over police treatment of Black Americans has been raging since May, when the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, his neck under the knee of an arresting officer, touched off a worldwide uproar.

That upheaval appears to have more support among Canadians than it does in the U.S., a new online poll from Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies suggests.

The poll, conducted last weekend, found 67 per cent of 1,500 Canadian respondents reported a positive view of the Black Lives Matter movement, compared with just 55 per cent of 1,000 U.S. respondents who felt the same way.

Only 33 per cent of Canadians polled reported feeling negatively about the movement, compared to 45 per cent of Americans.

Where Americans and Canadians do appear to agree is on the question of whether the protests are likely to lead to lasting change.

In Canada, 45 per cent of respondents said no, compared to 33 per cent who said yes and 21 per cent who said they didn't know. U.S. respondents felt similarly, 46 per cent to 33 per cent, with 20 per cent undecided.

Online polls do not carry a valid margin of error and are not considered representative of the population at large because they are not based on a random sample.

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This Global news segment shines light onto Canada’s history of slavery and how it is still affects people today, this is important in an anthropological aspect because everyone deserves to be heard and recognized for something that controls their everday lives and once this happens, action can be taken and changes can be made. I was very surprised to learn that slavery even took place in Canada. I think it is very important to be educated on subject matters such as these because this continues to oppress POC through systematic racism and people continue to suffer from these past traumas and if we can all come together to recognize this, the process of healing can take place.

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Article Reference: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/opinions/american-culture-and-race-ford/index.html
This article is an opinion piece about how "White Culture" does not exist, and how the current popular mediums present today were mostly inspired from the work of black artists and writers.

It is not too difficult to find articles talking about specific aspects of culture, but it certainly is not common to see an article tackle the idea of the difference between black culture and white culture. To
me, it shows how cultural appropriation and many other forms of ethnocentrism can
still have lasting impacts, to the point where someone would argue that a specific race-based culture does not exist, which in itself could be seen as ethnocentric.

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There are many kinds of discrimination being issued in our modern society. This article introduces one of them which we could easily overlook.
What discrimination could occur with respect to Breast Cancer? One of non-profit organizations in Canada, Rethink Breast Cancer, promoted ‘A Breast Recognition Project’ on October 21st, 2020. According to the market research and interviews, the organization has recognized that many of Black or Indigenous women who struggle against breast cancer experience insufficient information and healthcare treatment after they are diagnosed. These often lead to poor results of full recovery cases. Therefore, they decided to launch the project to support inappropriate situations they might have.
I had no idea that there would be various types of discrimination such as the one written in this article and I was surprised there are differences in the amount of treatment systems and data between black women and non-black women.
As we can see now, there are not only widely known discrimination like racism but also minor problems. We must think critically what might causes discrimination and make effort to make our community equally for all in even small fields.

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Article: Culture at the Centre: unprecedented exhibit comes to Museum of Anthropology at UBC

This article focuses on the exhibit that was on display in 2018, although it is 2 years too late to see this exhibit I think its still an interesting article to share because it still talks about the collaboration of art from 6 different First Nations organizations to showcase their culture and history. Hopefully they hold another exhibit like this that I can go see in the future. The artifacts included pieces from 6 different cultures: Musqueam, Squamish, Lil'wat, Heiltsuk, Nisga'a (there is supposed to be a line under the g on that one but I couldn't figure it out on the computer) and Haida peoples. I learned from this article that this was the first time the collection of artwork has ever been all in one location which I think would have been incredibly interesting and educational to experience. One piece the article talks about is a traditional "spindle whorl" created by Aaron Nelson-Moody who is a Coast Salish artist. It is a symbol of Reconciliation and Teamwork, it depicts four eagles with their wings touching in unity.

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A new exhibit will be on display at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of British Columbia starting Sunday.

Culture at the Centre showcases the work of five different Indigenous-run museums and community centres around British Columbia.

The exhibit - an unprecedented collaboration between MOA and the five organizations - highlights how these centres work to preserve and celebrate the culture and history of six distinct First Nations.

Visitors will be able to see and experience the collected artwork, artifacts, languages and knowledge of the Musqueam, Squamish, Lil'wat, Heiltsuk, Nisg̱a'a and Haida peoples, all in one location for the first time.

"We're trying present in a way that is both engaging and illuminating," said Jill Baird, MOA's curator of education.

Among the exhibit sections full of sculptures and intricate craft work, MOA's guests will see six massive maps depicting the traditional territory of the First Nations.

Alison Pascal, the curator at the Squamish-Lil'wat Cultural Centre in Whistler, B.C., is sharing curator duties for the exhibit.

Pascal says the maps are incredibly important because they show how Indigenous people lived centuries ago.

The map reveals how her nation, the Lil'wat, lived not only in permanent major settlements, but also migrated to seasonal settlements.

"We utilized the entirety of our territory," said Pascal.

She said being able to access the different regions of the Lil'wat territory was integral to her people's civilization. Food and crafting materials were located in different areas, and because the Lil'wat were partially nomadic, their success revolved around the seasonal movement.

"It's not like one single area is disposable, it's all valuable and important to our people," she said.

The last section of the exhibit focuses on repatriation and reconciliation. On display is a traditional spindle whorl created by Coast Salish artist Aaron Nelson-Moody. The design of the spindle whorl depicts four eagles, their wings touching, symbolizing unity and teamwork.

Culture at the Centre runs from March 18 to Oct. 8.
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The article I have chosen this week was has made its fair share of rounds through the newspapers, television shows as well as social media. This article focuses on an Indigenous lady by the name of Joyce Echaquan who died while livestreaming the mistreatment she was receiving by hospital staff.  Everyone listening could hear the vulgar language that was being used by nurses. When I had first read this article I was deeply upset and definitely needed some time to myself to not only gather my thoughts but take in what had just occurred. This article had touched me so deeply for a numerous amount of reasons. For starters, when I was younger I wanted to go into the health care field as I have heard such stories of patients being mistreated and the thought that someone could be treated horribly during such a vulnerable stage in their life is heartbreaking. Another key part of this story to me was that Joyce was an Indigenous woman (even though others stated it is irrelevant). This brings up the big question that are people of colour are more likely to be neglected and mistreated? And to be more specific in Canada are indigenous people more likely to suffer this kind of abuse? The article touches on how the family of Joyce stated that Joyce was speaking Atikamekw a language which is unique to Indigenous people. Which raises the question of should we have a more diverse health care team who could accommodate people that speak languages other than English which could help us avoid situations like this. (265)

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Article: https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/news/canada/tuffy-the-horse-trots-into-calgary-hotel-keeping-annual-tradition-alive-379278/

I wanted to lighten the mood a bit with my last article. So this article is about an interesting yearly tradition from Calgary, AB. The tradition is that fans of the football team the Calgary Stampeders bring a horse into a hotel in the town that the team is playing in. This started in 1948 as a kooky prank pulled by fans, where they brought a horse named Tuffy into a Toronto hotel. Since then those fans have evolved into the Calgary Grey Cup Committee. Every year they “[have] made a yearly event of parading a horse through a host city hotel.”

They say that in the past seven years the tradition has gained new life thanks to social media following the 100th Grey Cup.

I think this is a very wholesome tradition, and it is cool being able to see these traditions like these evolve in relatively recent history. It would be funny if in 400 years this was still going on, but in a radically different way, like it evolves into people dressing up in horse costumes running around town every year? I think it is very fun to think about how small events in the past may have contributed to the traditions we have today. And this is an excellent modern example.

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Name: Iona Yu
Article: https://globalnews.ca/news/7356668/coronavirus-thanksgiving-canada/
The article I have chosen this week speaks about the concerns and cautions of this year’s Thanksgiving. This year has so far been challenging for a lot of people in the world, especially people celebrating holidays or their yearly traditional festivals. As the pandemic kicked in, not many families were able to celebrate the day of greatness traditionally or culturally.

Thanksgiving is also the day to celebrate food for majority of families. While the connection of society and food decreases, it is also important to acknowledge that our societies subsistence systems in family cultures could have been affected by the pandemic. Not everyone will react the way they would during Thanksgiving this year, and I as well find it difficult to believe celebrating Thanksgiving without a group of friends and piles of food on the table because Thanksgiving is known to have the community all together.

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Thanksgiving won't look the same this year - or at least it shouldn't, if Canadians abide by coronavirus restrictions.

And one poultry farm in Quebec is already experiencing the effects.

"We reduced the size of the herd, so we bought less turkeys because we knew it would be less popular," Samuel Bertrand, who works at Saveurs des Monts farm in Gatineau, Que., told Global News.

"We tried to adjust the size of the bird, so they'll be a bit smaller for less people."

Bertand said the farm typically prepares anywhere from 600 to 800 turkeys for the holiday, but this year cut that number to roughly 450.

He noted that many grocery stores that place orders with the farm have been waiting to know more about the state of the virus' spread before confirming numbers.

While it has meant changes to their regular sales, Bertand said it's simply "logic" that Canadian families opt for smaller gatherings this year.

The warnings to limit indoor gatherings have been plenty since the pandemic began. Rising COVID-19 cases and the approaching Oct. 12 holiday have added new wind to those messages.

Officials urge caution ahead of Thanksgiving

The country's leaders and health officials, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, have been urging Canadians to rethink Thanksgiving plans this year.

"In our four biggest provinces, the second wave isn't just starting, it's already underway," Trudeau said in a televised address Wednesday. "We're on the brink of a fall that could be much worse than the spring.

"It's all too likely we won't be gathering for Thanksgiving, but we still have a shot at Christmas."

Toronto's top public health official, Dr. Eileen de Villa, told residents to think of other ways of celebrating the several approaching holidays, noting such conversations can be tricky to have with family.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford offered a reminder that indoor gatherings need to be limited to 10 people, and holidays are no exception.

"Nothing is more important than family and loved ones getting together. But in saying that, we've got to keep it under 10," Ford said at a news conference Thursday.

Quebec's health minister also noted cancelling Thanksgiving plans outside their own household is an "additional sacrifice" residents have to make.

Similar to Ontario, Quebec has a limit of 10 individuals per indoor gathering. The province "strongly" recommends that those gatherings include people from no more than three households.

Alberta has released a guide to safe holiday entertaining, which includes tips for hosts and guests.

In B.C., which is also dealing with an increase of COVID-19 cases, gatherings are limited to 50 individuals.

The warnings to have smaller celebrations come as several areas in Canada are dealing with the second wave of coronavirus, seeing a spike in cases and increasing calls to limit social interaction. COVID-19 has killed about 9,250 people in Canada, while the cumulative case count has been edging toward the 150,000 mark.

Cases from indoor gatherings

Indoor gatherings, such as parties within homes, have been the culprit behind numerous COVID-19 cases in Canada.

In August, B.C.'s top doctor said at least 45 cases were linked to private parties in the Metro Vancouver area.

"Even though they may have been smaller individual parties, the overlapping groups meant that there's a large number of people that were potentially exposed," Dr. Bonnie Henry said.

Such parties have even led to a clampdown by law enforcement.

Also in August, three Vancouver police officers tested positive for COVID-19 after breaking up a party with more than 100 people attending. Between 16 to 20 officers were in self-isolation as a result.

Earlier this month, a Saskatoon party attended by 47 people was called a "superspreader event" after being linked to 21 coronavirus cases.

But Thanksgiving will still go on in Canada, even if it looks a bit different.

That's what Ottawa Mission, a charity that offers shelter and support to the city's homeless population, is promising.

"Thanksgiving will be definitely different, but it'll be wonderful," Ric Watson, the organization's chef, said Thursday.

Watson said that residents of the shelter will be indoors, while external members of the community will be passed meals from their garage door. The meal will be a "full Thanksgiving dinner," he said, loaded with a pumpkin tart, a drink and two other meals for the day.

For those who rely on the organization, the Thanksgiving meal isn't just food but something they look forward to throughout the year, Watson said.

"It's a sense of community," he explained. "So we're not going to let them down, it's going to happen."
- With files from Global National reporter Abigail Bimman

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Smaller turkeys, quieter gatherings: How coronavirus is changing Canada's Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving won't look the same this year - or at least it shouldn't, if Canadians abide by coronavirus restrictions. And one poultry farm in Quebec is already experiencing the effects. "We reduced the size of the herd, so we bought less turkeys because we knew it would be less popular," Samuel Bertrand, who works at Saveurs des Monts farm in Gatineau, Que., told Global News.

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Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/10/17/sturgis-rally-spread/

This article was the personal story of Kenny Cervantes, a man who attended the 2020 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota. This event is now being called one of the biggest superspreading events for Covid-19 in America. With over 500’000 attendees and flare ups in many states around the area it is said to be almost impossible to fully determine the amount of cases caused by it.

The article talks about how his girlfriend had warned him not to go, but he had decided to go anyway. Now regretting it as he had to be hospitalized and he also infected family members.

It goes onto say the event was also very dangerous, with very few people wearing masks and some people actively refusing testing.

To me this is a great representation for the ignorance of some people during this pandemic. With a huge divide between what to me are rational people vs covid-denying Trump supporters. I recognize this however may not be the most culturally relative way to think about this situation. Though to me this is a situation that begs the question of how objective should one be? If you are the only person trying to see something from another person’s side is it even worth it? It is very frustrating. And something I do not know the answer to.

Should you try and be understanding even if someone else’s actions are affecting almost everyone around them negatively?

I think the most interesting thing will definitely be seeing who owns up to being this type of person in twenty years. Will people be embarrassed? Proud? I guess only time will tell.

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In my time writing these articles I think that the most important thing I learnt wasn’t the content of the articles. I think the most important thing was growing my ability to try and see things through a more anthropological lens. Being able to try and use the terms I learned in class (ethnocentrism, cultural relativity, sanctions, etc) and applying them to the news was very interesting. And for that reason I choose the last article I wrote about to be the most interesting. It really got me thinking about traditions in society. Overall I think this was a great exercise, The only hard part was trying to find news that was not related to Covid-19! You would be surprised (or maybe not) to learn how much it dominates every single headline in every single news station. Though I guess this would be less of a problem for future classes.

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Week 8
Article Reference: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/local-advocates-oppose-st-lucia-luxury-resort-with-canadian-ties-1.5155920

This CTV News article is talking about local activist groups concerned about a luxury resort being built close to, and possibly over Indigenous burial grounds. The activists' main goal was the preservation of these burial grounds, as they not only carry significant history, but they carry significant cultural significance as well.

I chose this article because it shows the struggle of people who are trying preserve a culturally significant area, against an economically beneficial initiative. One part of the article that particularly grabbed my attention was a quote by one of the activists, saying that governments are slow, and stuff like this tends to not be high on their priority spectrum. It annoys me personally. Stuff like cultural burial grounds should really be looked at with historical significance.

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Article: The heartbreaking, controversial history of Mount Rushmore.

For those who are unaware, Mount Rushmore is a tribute to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, that is built on sacred Indigenous land by a man connected to the KKK. This article focuses on the fact that the tribute is erected on stolen land. I learned in this article something that I did not know and that is before Mount Rushmore was known by that name, it was called "Tunkasila Sakpe Paha" or Six Grandfathers Mountain by the Lakota peoples. It was also used as a place for prayer before the land was taken over by Euro-American settlers and the U.S. government in 1877 when they broke the Treaty of Fort Laramie that was signed in 1868. I chose this article because I feel that this particular situation is not spoken about enough. I didn't wasn't even fully aware of the history of Mount Rushmore until the protests happened a few months ago. This article has great information on the situation and history of the location and I learned a lot. Definitely recommend this article. (179 words)

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Built on sacred Native American land and sculpted by a man with ties to the Ku Klux Klan, Mount Rushmore National Memorial was fraught with controversy even before it was completed 79 years ago on October 31, 1941.

Over the years, the monument has drawn protests over its location on indigenous land, debates about whether another commander-in-chief deserves a spot on the mountain, and a Hollywood controversy over an Alfred Hitchcock movie partially filmed on the site.

To understand how Mount Rushmore has become a cultural symbol and flash point, here's a look at how the memorial came to be.

"It's the center of the universe of our people," Sprague says. For Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho communities, the region was not only spiritually important, it was also where tribes gathered food and plants they used in building and medicine.

After that, settlers and prospectors poured into the region. In 1884, New York attorney Charles Rushmore visited to strike a deal on a tin mine, and, on a lark, Six Grandfathers was renamed after him.

But the land dispute was not resolved. In the 1920s, the Lakota tribes sued the U.S. government for theft-a legal battle that would drag on for decades.

Creating a tourist attraction

Robinson envisioned an ode to the old West, with carvings of historic figures such as Lewis and Clark and Lakota leader Red Cloud. He reached out to Stone Mountain sculptor Gutzon Borglum -who would transform the granite mountain into what it is today.

A controversial sculptor

Borglum had gained fame for sculptures honoring U.S. history-as well as his bombastic personality. In Georgia, he became involved with the Ku Klux Klan, which helped fund the Stone Mountain project. But Borglum soon began to clash with the Stone Mountain Memorial Association.

In February 1925, the association fired Borglum, citing mismanagement of funds and "his offensive egotism and his delusions of grandeur." His sacking made national news when Borglum destroyed the Stone Mountain models and fled the state.

By August 1925, Borglum had agreed to work on Mount Rushmore-but not the way Robinson had pitched it. Borglum saw the carving as a testament to American exceptionalism, and advocated that it depict presidents instrumental in the country's expansion.

George Washington, the country's first president, would represent its birth. Thomas Jefferson, who nearly doubled the country's size with his purchase of the Louisiana Territory, stood for its westward expansion. Theodore Roosevelt, who had overseen the construction of the Panama Canal, was a symbol of economic growth. And Abraham Lincoln was selected for having fought to preserve the nation in the Civil War.

Unfinished work, a secret room, and pop culture depictions

Over the next 16 years, Borglum wrangled with the federal government about funding and control of Mount Rushmore-which he never technically completed.

Borglum hoped to carve the presidents down to their waists and chisel a description of the memorial next to them. But when it became clear there wasn't enough space for the latter, he decided to build a room behind the faces to hold U.S historical artifacts.

Borglum was still refining those heads when his health began to deteriorate. He died on March 6, 1941, leaving his son, Lincoln, to continue his work. But the mountain had a limited amount of carvable surface-for example, Jefferson's hand couldn't be completed due to the quality of the stone-and, worse, funding had run out. The project was declared finished on October 31, 1941.

The tunnel that Borglum had drilled for the Hall of Records sat empty for decades until 1998, when the National Park Service placed a titanium vault in the floor, filling it with information on Mount Rushmore, the presidents, and U.S. history. This not-so-secret room isn't open to the public but has been the subject of much speculation and was even depicted in the National Treasure fictional historical conspiracy movies.

Mount Rushmore was most famously the setting of the final chase scene in Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 thriller North by Northwest. However, the filming itself sparked a controversy. In 1958, the National Park Service granted Hitchcock permission to film at the memorial on the condition that it wouldn't serve as the backdrop for any violent scenes. Hitchcock had to promise Cary Grant and other actors wouldn't run across the tops of the presidents' heads.

Hitchcock partially kept his promise, filming scenes in the memorial's parking lot and cafeteria. He then went on to shoot the film's violent final chase scene on a scaled replica so realistic that viewers believed it was filmed at Mount Rushmore. The National Park Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior cried foul, and ultimately asked Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to remove the credit line at the end of the movie thanking them for their cooperation.

Mount Rushmore opened to the public even as the Lakota continued legal challenges. In the decades since, the memorial and its surroundings have served as a flash point for the treatment of Native Americans.

Although the loss of the land was a far bigger concern for many Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho, Hill says that some indigenous people wanted the site to recognize their history, too.

Native nations have also taken issue with the way Mount Rushmore told their story-and that of U.S. expansion. Borglum had envisioned the site as a shrine to the greatness of the four presidents it depicted-and as a result, Hill says, the memorial became "a space for uncomplicated patriotism."

The civil rights movement of the 1960s inspired a wave of protest among Native Americans across the country. In the summer of 1970, protest came to Mount Rushmore when a few dozen activists from the organization United Native Americans scaled the memorial to demand the return of the Black Hills to the Lakota. They camped atop the memorial for months-and then returned the following summer for a briefer protest that ended in their arrests.

In 1980, the long-running legal dispute finally reached the U.S. Supreme Court. In the landmark United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians case, the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. government had improperly taken the Black Hills territory from the Lakota, who were deemed entitled to $17.1 million in damages. But the Lakota declined the compensation and have since advocated for the return of the Black Hills instead.

Mount Rushmore's duality-sacred indigenous ground, patriotic bucket-list destination-means it remains a protest site today. On July 4, 2020, more than a hundred demonstrators gathered at a Fourth of July rally held by President Donald Trump to protest the memorial and remind attendees that it was built on stolen land.

While some have pushed for Mount Rushmore to be expanded, others have demanded that it to be torn down. As the U.S. continues to reckon with the Confederate statues and other monuments to its racist past, some tribal leaders and their supporters have called for the removal of the memorial.

It's unlikely that any major changes will be made to this nearly 80-year-old memorial. The National Park Service has dismissed the idea of altering Borglum's vision to include a new face, while the Native American community is divided on the question of whether to destroy it or use it to educate tourists about the real history of the American West.

"I don't see anything to gain from tearing things down, but where I'm coming from is to have a side of the American Indian or Lakota people there," Sprague says. "A massive number of people visit this grand carving but they walk away with very little knowledge about these things."

Amy McKeever is a senior writer and editor at National Geographic. Follow her on Instagram.

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The heartbreaking, controversial history of Mount Rushmore

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Built on sacred Native American land and sculpted by a man with ties to the Ku Klux Klan, Mount Rushmore National Memorial was fraught with controversy even before it was completed 79 years ago on October 31, 1941.

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Week 8
Name: Iona Yu
Article: https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/parks-canada-plans-first-captive-breeding-program-to-save-jasper-national-park-caribou-1.5170632

This CTV news reported in Edmonton discusses about admonitions of caribou herds in Jasper National Park. Rangers from Park Canada plan to gather the female caribous under a captive breeding pen in order to protect and expand the caribou species.

Without species living on our earth’s environment, such as caribous, it is challenging for environmental anthropologists and researchers to collect data and information from their fieldwork due to the decrease in the wildlife. Although anthropologists interact and study other individuals daily, losing a factor in the environment of the studied society can affect the understanding of their culture and their purpose of survival.

I believe wildlife in our environment is essential for our relationship between humans and animals. Caribous not only provide beneficial needs, but they can teach different views and cultures just like every other living organism.

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Article Reference:
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/international-protest-happening-in-major-cities-demanding-montreal-based-pornhub-be-shut-down-for-alleged-child-rape-and-trafficking-videos-855385278.html

The article is about the recent protest held in Montreal, Canada to against the sex trafficking and rape of women and children. Recently, Pornhub, the leading online adult entertainment platform, has been issued in the United States and caught for releasing sexually assaulting a child. Against that, an anti-trafficking expert Laila Mickelwait’s “Traffickinghub” gathered signers from 192 countries around the world to shut down Pornhub.

The article grabbed my attention because we had a similar case last year in Korea. The creator of the biggest online adult platform called “Room number N” has arrested who released illegal videos containing sexual exploitation of women and children and made a huge profit by selling them.

It is a shame that we had this case in Korea too but I am also glad that finally the sexual exploitation or illegal online platform issues has been risen up and contribute the public to have a criticism against them. Through this, I hope that many people including governments notice there are growing calls for legislation making and investigation regarding photo taking and trading illegally on the online.

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Week 7: Real-time study of coronavirus planned in University of Saskatchewan curriculum

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Week 7: Real-time study of coronavirus planned in University of Saskatchewan curriculum

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Article: https://globalnews.ca/news/7317646/real-time-study-of-coronavirus-university-saskatchewan/
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This article is reporting how the University of Saskatchewan is planning to add COVID-19 as a part of their social science curriculum. According to the article, an archaeology and anthropology professor, Pamela Downe will make COVID-19 central to her instruction as it fascinates her of how the corona virus changes every day, which she has never experienced before as a professor. This article shines a new light on me of how COVID-19 is “piling on” other health crises around the world and especially Canada. It is related to anthropology in the sense that not only COVID-19 has made huge impacts on human population and health, it has also culturally disrupted people across the world. Cultures from across the world is and will be changing a whole lot when COVID-19 goes away.

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Article:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/31/americas/day-of-the-dead-mexico/index.html

This whole article displays the information about the yearly celebration that is done in Mexico ,”The Day of the dead”. This day is celebrated in order to honor the loved ones who died in that year and according to the records more than 90,000 Mexicans died this year due to COVID-19.This explains that how tremendous the virus is and how it has effected the lives of the people .As people were about to celebrate this festival they are still not sure that how many more are going to die because of this virus .The people are following the measures of social distancing and are ready to celebrate this festival from their homes commemorate the memory of their loved ones and to keep the ritual alive. This explains that no one can decide what is going to happen in our lives except God.

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Article: https://globalnews.ca/news/7428843/coronavirus-wedding-avani-event-centre-vaughan/

The article I have chosen not only ties in with what is happening in the world right now but also with this week’s chapter. The article posted by Global News discusses a wedding that took place in the York region of Toronto which had a Covid -19 outbreak that resulted in 46 people testing positive. The attendees were aware of the “high risk of exposure” and still chose to attend which can be considered careless to say the least. Many of the people that attended weren’t even from the area resulting in a larger widespread. Unfortunately, as this article mentions this isn’t the first time there has been outbreak due to a wedding. This ties with anthropology because I believe culture plays a big role in this, for instance a lot of the more recent outbreaks happening in BC are a direct cause of Indian weddings taking place in Surrey. As well as bigger families which tend to result in more people attending the wedding. As a society, we have been conditioned to think that more extravagant and larger weddings ties in with one’s status and wealth. This results in events like this continuing to happen even during a pandemic. I connected with this article personally because my sister was also planning to get married in August – but due to the pandemic we cancelled the wedding because we didn’t want to put our families and friends at risk. I believe people tend to forget that this isn’t permanent and we can put a stop to this if we avoid big gatherings like this. (257)

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Week 8:
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This CBC article discusses the disagreements between the Mi'kmaw and the Federal Fisheries officers of Cape Branton. This article relates to cultural anthropology because it shows the clash between two cultures who live among each other. The Fisheries officers have been cutting the lobster traps of indigenous fisherman who depend on these shellfish that have been, and continue to be  a source of livelihood to their people because they are fishing ‘out of season’ and I believe this to be another form of colonization. I learned from this article that hunting and fishing rights may have been granted back to indigenous peoples but still the cultural difference between the Western lifestyle and indigenous lifestyle continues to be misunderstood in a form of ethnocentrism and are still pushing Canadian lifestyle of First Nation peoples.

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A Mi'kmaw community on Cape Breton launched a moderate livelihood lobster fishery and is having traps removed by federal Fisheries officers, which contradicts the stance set by the government after disputes over a First Nations fishery in southwestern Nova Scotia.

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Week 8: 'We need action now,' says advocate for an Indigenous health centre in Montreal

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Week 8: 'We need action now,' says advocate for an Indigenous health centre in Montreal

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Article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/indigenous-health-centre-montreal-1.5782647
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Following the death of Joyce Echaquan, an Indigenous Canadian woman, who died shortly after posting a Facebook Live Video recording herself in distress and healthcare workers hurling racists insult at her, this article touches on how systematic racism still exists in federal, provincial and territorial health systems which is the main factor that led to the incident and Indigenous advocates in Montreal are demanding for concrete actions to make Indigenous health centre to become a reality.

I choose this article because I would like to bring awareness and acknowledge about relationship of Canada and Indigenous people. We are often reminded to be kind towards one another, but often time, Indigenous people are left out of the conversation. Through this article, I learned that not only Indigenous people are still treated with racism, but they also have an inadequate health care system. Although there are programs and monetary support provided from federal government, Indigenous people should also be treated with respect and dignity just like any people from other races in Canada. And one of the first step that the government can provide them the respect and dignity they deserve is to make Indigenous health centre become a reality. Ultimately, the public should also be educated more about the lives of Indigenous people so that racism can hopefully to an end.

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From reading the many news reports and articles that are related to anthropology in some way, I realized that this subject, was in some way allowing me to understand what it is I should be looking out for when writing stories about culture, or being inspired by a culture's music, and understanding the many facets that make up a culture and how they end up interacting and be perceived by other people has been an interesting thing to think about.

My favorite article that I have researched thus far was the Week 3 article, on how couples are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. I really treasure romance in my personal life, so this article resonated with me the most, and I was curious as to how couples were handling this pandemic, and the challenges that they had to face head on. Different cultures do it differently, which makes it fascinating for me to learn about.

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Week 9
Word count: 195

Through the past 8 weeks of doing research for the News and Media Curation I learned a lot about how easily we can be influenced through things like the media or even the words family members and friends. Of course, I knew this before doing some research but I had never put much thought into this, and it has opened my eyes to how much power we truly hold to impact society and our peers around us. Everything we do in our day to day lives is through the influence of something that we have learned to be normal, it is interesting to think about because we are constantly being influenced even when we aren't aware of it. My favourite post that I read through the weeks is Week 4: Jet Simon, I read a little about this topic that they brought up in this post outside of class and I was pleased with changes that are being made. I enjoyed their padlet post not only for the content but also the way that they made this interesting to read and also respectfully to those who are affected by this cause, I admire the self awareness.

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In the past 8 weeks of these news and media curation assignments, I have learned quite a bit more about the culture and systems in North America. I'm glad that I chose North America to report on because I live here and knowing more about the issues going on here culturally helps me to understand not only the problems still happening, but also some amazing and interesting things about the cultures that still exist around me that people don't usually learn about in elementary and highschool. The things I have learned are so important to understand too because a lot of the information I've shared in these assignments I feel are often overlooked and/or buried under other headlines. Although I've only reported on 8 articles, I've read a whole lot more and even bought books to further educate myself on indigenous culture which gives me the tools to not only decolonize my mindset more, but to help others do so as well, which is so important. I think the article I enjoyed reading the most was the one I reported on in week 2 "Colonialism is thriving in Canada" this is the one that lead me to buy the book written by the woman in the article. This article was one of the more important ones to me because while I knew that the media was colonizing and not doing justice to the issues occurring for Indigenous peoples, I didn't know just how bad it was which first had me very upset with myself for not knowing just how bad it was, but I then realized that I now have the opportunity to learn more and help to educate my friends, family and peers and hopefully with more understanding, Indigenous peoples will be given the voice they genuinely deserve. This is something I am very passionate about and I'm very glad to have been given the ability to learn more through these assignments. (323 words)

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Conclusion:

By reviewing anthropological articles every week, I could find a lot of attractive cultural news around the world and they have been broadened my perspective. It was interesting that anthropology deals with many fields such as language, gender, education, society and so on.

I personally thought myself as an open-minded person who understands cultures but I realized I have to develop my communication skill to be more prepared person not biased in this global world.

Among my postings, I like the article about the first woman CEO of Citibank the most because I believe this case not only encourages me to challenge but also influences many women to break the glass ceiling with their own power.

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Week 9
Name: Iona Yu

From the beginning of week 1 to the end of week 8 in our news and media curation post, I have been on a journey finding several articles that related to our objective. Some articles mentioned societies cultures and languages while others remained focused on the environment. I have learned that cases that seem similar are not always identical when glanced at from a far distance. For an individual to understand a society full of beliefs, religions, and practices, the individual must be open minded and prepare to read while strive for information within the cultural group.

One of my favorite reports was reading an article about a joined community in a neighborhood who supported a teacher that was diagnosed with colon cancer. Since humans have been developing mentally and physically over the centuries, it is clear we have changed so much through activities and traits in societies that involve cultural relationships. Humans have wonderful values that care and benefit others whenever or wherever. And this is thanks to our growth in cultures, advanced technology, and behaviors.

Having to read through articles each week has been an eye opener for me because I used to rarely care about other cultures and differences for I did not need to know their point of view, since I was living through my own tradition and culture. However, being able to choose an article meant I was able to write what I enjoy and this made me believe the significance of societies' cultures and people.

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Conclusion:

Over the past couple of months, I have gained a different perspective of viewing the world which I can thank this weekly assignment before. To be completely honest, prior to taking this class I rarely followed the news unless it came up on social media. However, now I have made it a personal mission to read up on current events because they affect me, my peers and family a lot more than I think. Looking at news articles with a different outlook mainly from an anthropology view helped me relate it more to myself which created a deeper connection. Learning about theories, cultures, and languages and then finding articles and then using my education to further understand and dig deeper with the articles was encouraging. It made me feel like as though this class was for more than just a credit – it taught me something that I will carry with myself for years. One thing that I really enjoyed was how anthropology is such a wide subject and so many articles applied to it. The article I enjoyed writing about was my Week 5 article, this was the one regarding the rise of suicides in indigenous communities. It served as a wakeup call for myself and motivated me to make a change even if that was just raising awareness. (219)

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This assignment is definitely an enjoyable one since I have got to learn more about human nature and its many perspectives in the process of looking up which articles to write about. Sometimes I got stuck looking for “anthropology articles,” but then, it was actually easier than I thought. I realized that issues or findings about anthropology was all around me, I just did not realize it sooner. The article that I enjoyed reading and writing about the most would be “Humans have altered North America’s ecosystems more than melting glaciers.” As I grow, I get more intrigued to learn more about the environment and how we human are a contributor to the destruction of it, so when I stumbled upon this article, I just had to put it on Padlet.  If one actually looks into it, climate change has been addressed since the early 19th century and it has since brought devastated effect on human’s lives such as drought and fires. And human activity has had the greatest impact on climate change, especially the North American’s ecosystems. I would like to get the words out there through this article so that more people can realize how much damage human activity has done to the ecosystems and together come up with a way to reverse that (hopefully).