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by perfmode 2150 days ago
it's funny how the world works

> a Harvard graduate student made a landmark discovery about the nature of human anger.

the article doesn't credit the inuits with the discovery.

> By contrast, Briggs seemed like a wild child, even though she was trying very hard to control her anger. "My ways were so much cruder, less considerate and more impulsive," she told the CBC. "[I was] often impulsive in an antisocial sort of way. I would sulk or I would snap or I would do something that they never did."

but instead credits Briggs, who is the one exhibiting primitive behavior and being exposed to the higher path

2 comments

This comment doesn't seem to be made in good faith and seems to be looking to take offense. It's reasonably clear here that "discovery" is relative to the society Briggs is from. The people who cared for Briggs made a discovery (whether on their own or through a different nation themselves), and Briggs' people ("westerners" to use a simple descriptor) made the discovery through Brigg's experiences.

Discovered is not reasonably understood as "discovered for the first time by a human". For all we know the Inuit tribe themselves only discovered their techniques from another nation.

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

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...

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.
"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?

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.

The article you linked talks about indigenous people being murdered, not committing murders.

So what do you wanna really say with that?

You have to know there is a huge difference between showing and managing your initial anger response, and plotting a murder.
>managing your initial anger response

And whats with long term anger response?