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Originally Posted by Jammon
It's interesting because we don't see that effect with the generations of Holocaust survivors.
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The only study on intergenerational trauma that I'm aware of, the one that claimed to have "proven" it exists at a genealogical level,
was a study of holocaust survivors.
The study was flawed, sample sizes were too small and it focused primarily on the genetics of a small and specific group of people in a single specific time and place, but there are some serious issues among the survivors of the holocaust and their descendent, made worse by the conflict in Israel and Palestine. You can't look at Likudniks and tell me that Holocaust survivors and their descendents are "alright".
We also see similar affects among people who have been colonized in other parts of the world, such as Africa, Australia, South America and parts of Asia. To a degree, you see similar effects in some Germans and Japanese as well as a result of their role in WWII.
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Originally Posted by Jammon
There is no doubt that it's all tied to resiliency and whether there are cultural differences in how we approach with and deal with problems and more specifically, trauma. That's why there is an exploding research base on this topic and to study why some people seem to be more resilient (and in the context of races, cultures and communities) while others languish.
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But we also exist within a system where an entire group of people has been pushed onto our northern margins and made to live without access to basic health care, let alone "luxuries" (services not funded by OHIP) like mental health.
Society is broken in those communities, and how did it break? By severing an entire generation of kids from their parents and grandparents through the systemic eradication of language and culture at residential schools, combined with the forced isolation of Canada's reserve system and the restrictions to mobility rights they faced in the past.
If you raise a kid without the skills to raise children, and then they raise children without the skills to raise children, those children will not only be neglected, but they'll also go on to raise children without the skills to raise children. Neglect, self harm and despair get passed down from generation to generation while privileged white people constantly tell them its their own fault for being shitty. It's no wonder native children in Canada are the most likely group of people in the world to kill themselves. Look at the quality of live they've been born into. Look at the world we expect them to thrive in, and fault
them when they don't.
This is a cycle that has been created. You break this cycle by giving the people in those communities the mental health and addictions treatment they need. If 95% of a community is self medicating because they're traumatized you
can't have a society. Instead of trying to lay blame or make ourselves look innocent why don't we put some effort into fixing the problem?
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