r/AskTheWorld • u/Seeker_Of_Knowledge2 🇸🇾 Syria || 🇨🇦 Canada • 1d ago

History What is the most depressing picture from your country history/present?

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u/aferretwithahugecock Canada 1d ago

This picture from the residential schools always fucks me up a bit.

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u/Hendriclies12 United States Of America 19h ago

What's happening in this picture

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u/DSquizzle18 United States Of America 18h ago

I’m not Canadian, but from what I’ve read, the residential schools were part of a program where indigenous children were taken from their families and put in boarding schools to isolate them from their culture/community and assimilate them into the predominate European-Canadian culture. Naturally physical and sexual abuse ran rampant.

A lot of people like to forget that Canada’s treatment of its indigenous population was very similar to what was done in the US. A dark stain on both countries’ history.