How do Aboriginal residential schools contribute to ethnic discrimination?

Residential
School systems contributed to the ethnic discrimination of aboriginal peoples by design. The
primary factor was that the schools removed aboriginal children from the influence of their
parents and aboriginal communities. In the isolated environment of the school these children
could then be forcibly assimilated into the practices of the dominant culture. As the aboriginal
cultural practices were viewed as being inferior, this process was viewed as being for the
education and benefit of the children.

The schools themselves
benefited...