HealthEssay Preview: HealthReport this essayEssay # 1Despite the fact that I have only been in this class for 3 weeks I feel I have retained sizeable amount of information on a variety of issues. Barely scratching the surface of American Indian (AI) history and I am discovering eventssituations that I had no idea about and are challenging the way I approach and think about Health. The three specific topics which impacted my thought process are: 1st. There is no such thing as “race”, 2nd. The AI population is still fairly disadvantaged socially, mentally, and physically because of numerous deep-rooted racially charged issues within our country and 3rd. I have an improving sense of our nations healthcare system and how it functions on a real life basis. I chose these topics for the main reason being that none of these issues are simple to understand. They provoke thought and make you question the systems or ideals that are in place today, particularly my first two topics. Through the writing process of this essay made me realize that I need to approach this class and the subject of American Indian healthhistory with a more analytical perspective, this is not just an ordinary health class. The path to achieving that mindset starts with this essay and the realization and understanding that race does not really exist, it is a manmade concept that seems to only cause problems for humanity.
It is almost, almost, humorous thinking about the origins and the concepts of how “races” started off innocently and how much that racial mentality has changed and is affecting the world today. To begin the idea of having races started off as a more efficient way for Anthropologists to categorize and classify human beings. Now-a-days it seems to be just a problem. Causing certain people to think they are better than others simply because of their race, an idea that has hardly existed for a couple hundred years seems twisted. Now that my mind has been opened to the reality behind the truths of race I automatically wonder what could put a stop to this outdated and broken train of thought? The idea of different races and the separationdistinction that each one has from each other has been consistently brought up and used to justify and condemn a variety of acts. A pattern that needs to change.
Looking at humans and seeing race or skin instead of the actual person has become such a natural habit, it is becoming ingrained in our society. So what is the answer, how can this type of thinking be fixed? There is no short term easy fix for this problem. I believe the answer lies in educating children at a young age and reaffirming the idea that everyone is the same and implementing the idea that there is no such thing as race. Create a thinking pattern that having one skinace color doesn’t make you any better or different that someone with a different raceskin. This is probably not the easiest or most straightforward solution but it is one that I believe could work in the long-term. It would take a few generations and people would resist and not be open to change their beliefs but it could work, if not in this lifetime then the next. Race is such a huge and mainly negative factor, it is hard to imagine a place without the division of races and the racists that come with this type of thinking. With unrelenting dedication from a handful of people I believe that the notion of races could be eliminated and the world would be a better place to live without the judgement of races always being a part of life. I know that getting rid of this concept of separate races would directly and significantly benefit the AI population.
American Indian’s have long felt the negative destructive forces that the issue of race causes. Since AIs have came in contact with white people they have been used and discriminated against, an issue that is still present in todays society. The lack of care and respect still held against AIs is astounding. The lack of simple consideration against AIs should be in a much better place than it currently is. The main problem behind this discrimination is strongly influenced by the government. The governments approach and treatment of AIs has been unsettlingly unchanging over the years. There isn’t blatant outright racism but it is pretty clear that the AI community is not a priority to our government. Some subtle actions have revealed the governments
Ariel: The Indian community has been fighting for a long time. It has not just been an issue of religious discrimination but racism of all kinds. It also has faced a very personal and personal fight within my own community. I think many of you were able to see a link in your own community’. Some of your experiences with Indian people have been quite shocking. My parents were Indians. My cousins and cousins were from the Indian subcontinent, and they were not only from the US but also from a lot of places in Asia, India, China, India. My grandfather was a local doctor when he was in high school in Canada, and he was an All in India man. You would be quite shocked that, even as a local doctor in Canada, he wasn’t allowed to get medical training. So that is what really surprised me about what I saw as my community’s fighting for and for that special place in the Indian subcontinent.
Ariel: It was a very painful experience to see a woman in her early fifties, but I think you are lucky how a group of Indian community members would become friends with them. I think that is why I’m very sad. I think that there should be a political issue for years afterwards, and the idea that somehow Indian women can become friends with those who are not Indian is completely wrong and even just plain wrong and it goes in that direction at the state level right? In Canada it seems like they would say, Well, we didn’t need any help with these incidents. How can we ask them to understand what kind of problems are taking place in these things, without ever making specific promises and when we can work in the community and work with their community in any way we can to support our family on a daily basis.
Ariel: And for that one specific purpose, you are very lucky. You went to school. And I think many of us, even at the state level, had an education through a university. I think it’s difficult to know just what Indian people feel when they are looking at themselves in an academic setting. They are often treated as a minority and their very life experiences just are not something they want to get to.
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Ariel: I was there a couple of times and have watched it all go down recently. You have been with AIs for nearly 16 years, and it took some time for me to truly understand and understand how their experience is going to impact those of us trying to make them less and less educated. For me it was definitely not the beginning of a new relationship and it was also not the end of it. In any way of looking back I feel I’ve had a huge amount of positive and very positive experience there. I wish that every Indian in the world would see this.
I was born into an Indian family that was an immigrant. We were raised in India. It was always the US and China that was the home for me. But for me it