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Does not seam to work very well either:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/23/canada-indigen...

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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?

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?

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

So what do you wanna really say with that?

Murdered by white Canadian males...that's what you wanna say?

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/ppvx8g/a-closer-look-at-n...

That article doesn't support your claim that this parenting style doesn't work, if anything, it refutes it:

> Nunavut has the highest per-capita murder rate in the country, but statistics can be misleading.

> Nunavut is in line with the national Homicide Survey: a large percentage of murders are committed when the assailant is under the influence of alcohol.

> if you took another area similar in housing shortages and alcoholism, you would have a similar crime rate.

> "It's a little unfair to look at Nunavut and the crime rate that it has and sort of assume that it's all Nunavut's fault," he said.

The geographic and economic uniqueness of Nunavut are gigantic uncontrolled variables in your assertion that the cultural correlation is causation.

>your claim that this parenting style doesn't work, if anything, it refutes it:

What claim?

But this is what we have ATM:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/23/canada-indigen...

Your parent comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23930146

That's not a claim but rather questioning the efficiency.

But sure it's not that easy, if you destroy one's culture, trow them into another world and let them barely "survive" other factor's play into the hole thing.

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.

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...

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?

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