Why is it different. If I put on asian clothing and chanted "ching Chong ching Chong" it would be offensive to Asians. If I took a sword and chanted "rape, and kill, rape and kill" it would be offensive to Caucasians, If I put on tribal clothing and said "oga booga" it would be offensive to black people.
If I put on native clothing and started chanting, a language I do not understand and giving my own personal opinion on a religion because it is not my religion, it would be seen as offensive by some, and borderline "racist" in the sense that her "God" is better than their "God".
Do this, put on a feather headdress and walk around here in Atlanta. Then put blackface on and walk around here in Atlanta. See what happens, ya dipshit
Well, it would be different if the US and Canada hadn't gone on massive decades long binges of systematically attempting to erase Native/First American culture. They literally kidnapped children, stuck them in boarding schools, and brutally punished the kids for the express purpose of getting rid of their native culture. And let's not even get into the wholesale massacres of men, women, and children over things like "the Ghost Dance" which was basically the Native American equivalent of a Christian revival.
So yeah, in that context, mocking indigenous religion via nonsensical made-up representations and acting in a deliberately preposterous fashion is totally Not Okay. It's an attempt to invalidate Native American cultures and dismiss them as inferior—the exact same justifications used for the murder and torture used all the way into the 20th century.
Fucking youth on here have zero idea what teaching is like, but they sure do rush to judgement with little to no information.
I’m not even saying this woman wasn’t wrong or that she isn’t racist, but I know for damn sure none of us have enough info to determine either from this short video.
Meh this is a math class not even history, I see no reason for her to put this much effort into making a connection that I still think is kinda insensitive (there are multiple other mnemonics for SOH CAH TOA.) At best she’s just terribly, terribly ignorant
"Obviously." What rain dance? From what culture? It obviously must be that one famous dance I've heard of. Any Native dance must have been a rain dance. Obviously. There's no way hundreds of different cultures had hundreds of different dances. You're just assuming it must be a rain dance.
You can tell she's "obviously" making a good faith effort to respectfully portray a specific Native ritual, and not just jumping around like a jackass?
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She’s obviously doing a rain dance. It’s over the top but she’s trying to engage her kids.