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Comment by nix23

5 years ago

>Do you have any evidence that those murders occur _within_ their communities by people raised like this?

No, do you have any evidence that they are NOT raised like this?

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michael1999  5 years ago

Many adult Canadian Inuit are from a time when they were forcibly removed from their families and raised in residential schools which applied corporal punishment liberally, and sexually abused many of them. Christians routinely complained that the natives refused to beat their children, and couldn't be trusted to raise their children 'properly'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...

How about an electric chair? https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/st-anne-residential...

https://www.facinghistory.org/stolen-lives-indigenous-people...

https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_residential_sc...

Scaevolus  5 years ago

The Inuit are around 4% of Canada's Indigenous population, so I'd be surprised if many of the people committing those murders were raised with this particular traditional Inuit anger-management strategy.

  • nix23  5 years ago

    "Inuit make up only 5% of Canada’s population, but in 2018 they made up 22% of the country’s homicide victims."

    >so I'd be surprised if many of the people committing those murders were raised with this particular traditional Inuit anger-management strategy.

    So what do you wanna really say with that?

    • Scaevolus  5 years ago

      You changed the meaning in your quote: "First Nations, Métis and Inuit make up only 5% of Canada’s population, but in 2018 they made up 22% of the country’s homicide victims."

      There's a massive inferential gap between Inuit children in the 1960s being taught to control their anger like this and Indigenous people being murdered now.

      - How common are these parenting techniques across Indigenous populations?

      - What sorts of people are committing those murders? Why?

      You brought up the murder rate to claim that this "Does not seam to work very well", but linking this one method of teaching Inuit children emotional regulation to Indigenous murders is a big stretch in many different ways.

      There are many issues these populations face, but it's unlikely that many of them stem from any particularly good (emotional regulation?) or bad (spanking?) parenting technique used on 3 year olds.