Factors Undermining a Positive Indigenous Identity (and Thereby Contributing to Identity Politics

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Factors Undermining a Positive Indigenous
Identity (and Thereby Contributing to Identity
Politics

• STUDENTS ANSWERS
• Lack of Success in Business Other Fields
• Language Used by Scholars (victimization)
• Cultural Incongruence
• Settlers Trivializing Belittling
• The De-Humanizing Gaze of Settlers (treats
  Indigenous people as The Other)
• Authenticity Challenges

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Factors Undermining a Positive Indigenous
Identity (contd.)

• ADDITIONAL POINTS
• Indoctrination by the Church
• Coverage of Indigenous People in School Curricula
  and Mass Media
• Discrimination and Stereotyping, leading to
  internalization of sense of inferiority
• Incarceration
• Low Levels of Human Capital and of Social Capital
• Scarcity of Role Models in Whom Can Take Pride
• Genocide and Attempts at Identity Regulation by
  the Colonial Regime
• Embarrassment Over Own Behaviour or That of Other
  Indigenous Individuals