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This book was awful. The only plus side to the book at all is that it acknowledges that the society we live in today is different from the 'baby boomers' generation, and that economically speaking it isn't as easy to survive as it was before. You can't just say 'go and get a job' anymore, or move out when you turn 18. It does also acknowledge the additional hardships put on radicalized people, in particular the Indigenous cultures, because of how Canada treated them when the explorers showed up. It demonstrates more obviously and directly the legacy of suffering that many stereotypes ignore.
Other than that, though, the chapter on gender focuses specifically on males and females, no talk and barely a mention of trans, and no mention at all of anything other. Only a couple paragraphs on same-sex things. And while there were lots of charts, there weren't really a lot of statistics and I found I didn't really learn a lot from reading this book. It was so vague about everything. It talked in such broad strokes it was hard to tell for a lot of the material what the authors were really trying to say about it.
This book was awful. The only plus side to the book at all is that it acknowledges that the society we live in today is different from the 'baby boomers' generation, and that economically speaking it isn't as easy to survive as it was before. You can't just say 'go and get a job' anymore, or move out when you turn 18. It does also acknowledge the additional hardships put on radicalized people, in particular the Indigenous cultures, because of how Canada treated them when the explorers showed up. It demonstrates more obviously and directly the legacy of suffering that many stereotypes ignore.
Other than that, though, the chapter on gender focuses specifically on males and females, no talk and barely a mention of trans, and no mention at all of anything other. Only a couple paragraphs on same-sex things. And while there were lots of charts, there weren't really a lot of statistics and I found I didn't really learn a lot from reading this book. It was so vague about everything. It talked in such broad strokes it was hard to tell for a lot of the material what the authors were really trying to say about it.
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