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In the picture we can see two people sitting on a scale. One of them is Irish, because he looks like Irish were pictured at that time. He is the person on the right. The other person is Negro, that means he has dark skin. The scale is equally balanced, which tells a lot about how Irish were seen by the British. Dark skin colour people were seen as lower human beings and they were different, so weren’t allowed to belong in society. They were seen as the lowest human beings. Now the Irish man is pictured on a balanced scale with a Negro, so the British saw the Irish as the lowest human beings, too. Everyone thought they were better than the Negros, so by saying the Irish are not any better they show how much the British disliked the Irish. According to that picture Irish didn’t have human rights, because that is what happened to people with dark skin later, who were put on the same level in society. The picture also shows how important religion was at that time. Irish were Catholic and British were Protestant, and that is why the British saw them as a lower form of human being. For believing something different people were excluded and hated by the group that was in power, and that group was the British.

According to the text women back in the 1800´s were crucial for the familiy´s survival. But they were still just objects ad not humans. Women were traded between fur traders and FN or Metis to get each others help. Both had benefits, so to get the other´s benefits, FN women had to marry a fur traders, so the FN family had access to the forts and posts of the fur traders and the fur traders could learn how to survive, navigate and live in the region, especially when it was cold and snowy. Today, it is not allowed to trade women. They can decide who they marry and mostly it is the person they love. If they marry does not depend on survival skills anymore. The wife could be the one in the family who earns money and the man cares for the household and children, which would have been impossible in the 1800´s. Even though it is still common in society that men work, and men get the good positions in their jobs and usually get paid more, evem in the same position, but women have the chance to work in a job they want to outside the household.