In high school, Junior had a geometry teacher named, Mr. P. He says that he "hurt a lot of Indian kids when (he) was a young teacher", having been instructed that the best way to deal with his Native American students was to "make them give up being Indian". This is a tactic used widely by civilizations around the world to assimilate the minorities. It is used in China on the Tibetans as well.
Should America allow the native Indians to form its nations? Should China allow Tibet to be independent? Do these people benefit from been assimilated or are they better off by themselves?
To give up being who you are is like raiding your real identity, but no matter how much your identity is changed, Indians would still look brown and whites would still look white. Does that solve anything?
For Chinese-Americans, no matter how Americanized you are, one would still need to know their mother culture or at least know how to speak Chinese other than English. Any ethnic without a strong culture is their biggest weakness.
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