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Originally Posted by arsenal
no one is stopping the Indians from getting out and going to school, getting an education but themselves. If more would get out and make something of themselves, and integrate into the community, and stop "blaming the white man", then the prejudice wouldn't exist.
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I think it's more complicated then nothing is stopping them but themselves. For many the environment they grow up stops them. How easy is it to break free from life on the reservation when you've grown up with that way of life being the norm?
Some people have made the argument that immigrants who have come to this country with nothing have made something of themselves so why can't the natives? But that is flawed because the immigrants coming to this country have something that the natives who choose to do nothing more then sniff gas on the reservation will never have - motivation.