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King's message aims to demolish the stereotypes in which dominant culture like to believe. I think that dominant culture of Canada romanticize the culture of Indigenous people which lead to having a lot of stereotypes that are no longer relevant. Today as someone already mentioned because of globalization, most Indigenous people are urbanized and because of that there are not much different from us
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