Offensive Mascots to be Banned What is considered offensive? Is it considered offensive to use obscenities around children? According to many people in the United States‚ it is sport team names and mascots that depict a certain group of people are considered offensive. People around the United States are trying to get professional sport teams to change their names and mascots because they feel it depicts their certain race in bad way. Teams should have to change their mascot and their name if
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Josh Nersissian Mrs. Kolus English‚ Pd. 3 11 September 2012 Native American Mascots Redskins‚ Braves‚ Indians‚ and Chiefs; they’re just mascot names not racist remarks. People find using these names as team mascots derogatory and insulting. Others don’t mind it‚ they think of it as tradition and don’t want the names removed. On the contrary‚ Native American Mascots being used in sports teams is considered disrespect to several. This should not be an issue because they do not ridicule
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4 13 December 2013 Why Culturally-themed Mascots Are Offensive With today’s world moving so rapidly into the future‚ it is important that we not forget our past. Our history has defined generations‚ instilling within them a sense of appreciation for their own traditions and cultures. The scope of impact that culture has is so large‚ that it even extends into the world of sports. Thousands of teams across the country derive their names and mascots from ethnic groups‚ predominantly the Native
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Controversial Mascots The controversy surrounding the use of Indian mascots and names in American sports has origins that run deep throughout the history of Indian and non-Indian relations. Today‚ the use of Indian mascots is at the center of an argument that touches the emotional hearts and souls of many. All across the country names and images of Native Americans are being removed from all sport teams. People are arguing whether team mascots and names are considered “racist”‚ this altercation
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used as the symbols‚ the names‚ the mascots for schools and sport team for many centuries. Those seem to be abnormal to be communal established‚ but in reality it was not‚ this phenomenon has become the hot issue in the 1950s and till then‚ especially was its effect toward the Native Americans. It’s not only causing the damage of the Nation’s reputation but also the images of the Natives in the sight of other nations. The widened use of Native American mascot should not be appreciated‚ because it
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the use of Indian names‚ mascots and images in colleague and professional level sports teams. Indigenous people have lived in North America for more than 15‚000 years‚ developing cultures and lifestyles as diverse as those of their non-Indian counterparts in other regions of the world. In 1492‚ Columbus arrived in the Caribbean Islands believing he had landed in India and thus named the Indigenous
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Controversial Mascots What is a controversial mascot? Controversial is defined by the online Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “relating to or causing much discussion‚ disagreement‚ or argument” (“Controversial”). What is meant when one says “controversial mascots‚” is a mascot that resembles a person‚ place or thing that is not agreed upon or supported by all people. A major controversial group of mascots that have been talked about for over four decades now are mascots that are Native American
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keep Mascots in schools or not‚ started in late 1970’s and from then this debate is going on. Most of the schools have Indian Mascots in place for half a century and suddenly it become problem to use Indian Mascots. Over 500 Native American organizations also announced their support for the removal of those mascots and over 1200 schools across the United States have changed the name of their sports teams and some school refused to play with those schools using Indian mascots. But some school still
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Indian mascots Would you support a mascot if it was based off of an old‚ well known Indian tribe? By the year 2017 all of Indian mascots will potentially be removed from high schools. How can you have any school spirit if you don’t appreciate the mascot that you have? Collinsville high school‚ the high school‚ the high school of champions‚ should be allowed to keep their infamous mascot‚ the chief Kahok. I can see why many people why many people would be offended by schools using Indians or the
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“The Washington State Board of Education has passed a resolution urging school districts to stop using Native American mascots‚ the Olympian reported.” (ABC news). We can recall that these mascots were deemed “full of pride‚ integrity‚ courage” and so much more by the fans‚ promoters‚ and teams. People say the mascots are “okay”. But has that ever made anything in the world “okay”? In that sense‚ war‚ and everything that happens with it is “okay” too. Is it okay to take images from cultures we essentially
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