Excuse me folks, but this has gotten on my last nerve!!! Textbooks that contradict its own information. This time, check out page 451 in Marger. It states:
‘For First Nations people who migrate to the cities, a social pattern has developed that is similar to that of American urban Indians – high unemployment, high criminality, and high alcoholism (Frideres, 1993; Statistics Canada, 1993).’
Just a paragraph down it states:
‘Aboriginal people who have moved to urban areas have exhibited especially noticeable improvements in socioeconomic status in the past two decades (Siggner and Costa, 2005).’
The last time I checked, the past two decades included 1993 and 2005. So, for the new urbanites, was the pattern developing or improving? Do you think Marger should have compared and confirmed those guy’s info before publishing…and on the same page no less?!
S. Ramos, Post #26
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