Re: To smack or not to smack?
I don't really want to get involved in this debate, but I did want to offer my perspective as a qallunaut living among the Inuit since you've mentioned this.
The article you read is the ideal, perhaps, but it is not the practice. Domestic abuse is still really widespread in the north, and it's not really anything to hear of an argument that's resulted in someone stabbing their girlfriend, or of a girlfriend setting her partner's car on fire. There are children who just run wild in the street in the summers, which in part is a cultural sense of community, but then there are also homes that lock their doors once the children go outside, and they stay on the steps until their parents remember about them. One of my coworkers frequently takes in a little girl whose parents simply forget about her.
The Inuit are a resourceful, strong, resilient, and beautiful people, but if that article suggested all Inuit raise their children like that, the article is sadly misinformed.
Originally posted by Shahaku
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The article you read is the ideal, perhaps, but it is not the practice. Domestic abuse is still really widespread in the north, and it's not really anything to hear of an argument that's resulted in someone stabbing their girlfriend, or of a girlfriend setting her partner's car on fire. There are children who just run wild in the street in the summers, which in part is a cultural sense of community, but then there are also homes that lock their doors once the children go outside, and they stay on the steps until their parents remember about them. One of my coworkers frequently takes in a little girl whose parents simply forget about her.
The Inuit are a resourceful, strong, resilient, and beautiful people, but if that article suggested all Inuit raise their children like that, the article is sadly misinformed.
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