Assignment 6, the canary effect

 

this documentary is called the canary effect since in the old times when they worked in mines, they used canary's in order to find out if there were poisoned gasses. when there were those, the canaries would stop singing and they would know that they had to get out of there.
in this documentary they look at the effects that the Pilgrims had on the Indians who had lived there since they could remember.


so it is a bit ridiculous to say that Columbus discovered America, when there were already people living there. in a country that already had been discovered by them selves, not by Columbus.


we have learnt a lot of this documentary. not only the stereotypes of the indians, for example we didn't have an idea that they were drunk so often. but also that they still feel oppressed by the Americans eventhough it is so long ago that the Pilgrims came and hunted them down, they apparantly still do that which causes a lot of pain by the Indians.
and that's why they have a hard time finding jobs or that that's the reason that the suicide ratings are so high and that they have a lower chance of living when they were actually not so different.
we feel sorry for the native Americans because they haven't done anything wrong in our eyes and were treated very poorly.


kind regards,
Carlijn en Esther