Comment by TomMckenny

Every problem you cite is caused by forced westernization and urbanization.

Alcoholism is not an Inuit cultural problem because Inuit culture predates the introduction of alcohol by thousands of years.

Unemployment is not cultural because people living off the land are not unemployed.

And hitting kids is something picked up from forcible re-education in Indian Schools where every aspect of the original culture was forbidden by generous use of beatings.

There is a tendency to quickly believe anything that treats our culture as innocent by blaming the victim, to easily believe anything contrary to what "rubs us the wrong way". I believe this is a dangerous fallacy we should resist.