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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I sit in the middle on all of this, I am a foster parent, pretty well always have a native kid I am looking after, their problems are not native so much as generational.
they generally come from families who have not finished high school, often have histories of physical and sexual abuse and this leads to substance abuse issues.
Any kid, no matter what race, coming from that kind of background, will have massive problems graduating high school and doing well in life, they will also, unfortunatly have huge difficulty not passing on that history to their kids. Now anyone with any brains can see this started a hundred years ago, 5 or 6 generations and is directly related to their societies total economic and cultural displacement. In reality it is a miracle they survived at all as a people and it will take generations longer for the effect of this to flush out of their families and alternate social and culture coping strategies to develop.
I suspect there is little 'we' can do to help 'them' but at the least we should acknowledege it is historically our fault and the wonderfull country 'we' enjoy was bought at a huge cost to 'them'.
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Well said. I think a lot of people truly don't appreciate the effects of generational poverty on children and how that can lead to marginalization from 50+ years ago still having a huge effect on society today. Telling someone who is the product of generations of abuse to "get over it" is asinine.