White saviourism is the paternalistic notion that white people are needed to “save” people of colour from their circumstances.
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A winning medical school application requires stories about observing clinical care. But applicants’ quests to get clinical experiences have unintended and surprisingly far-reaching consequences.
White saviourism is simultaneously a state of mind and a concrete unequal power structure between the Global North and the Global South.
Non-Indigenous Canadians are right to feel shame about Indian Residential Schools. But what comes next?
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