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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 w

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

nix23 6y ago
Does not seam to work very well either: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/23/canada-indigenous-murder-victims https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/23/canada-indigen...
- Scaevolus 6y ago
  Do you have any evidence that those murders occur _within_ their communities by people raised like this?
  - nix23 6y ago
    >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?
    - Scaevolus 6y ago
      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.
      - nix23 6y ago
        "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?
        shadowfiend 6y ago
        The article you linked talks about indigenous people being murdered, not committing murders. So what do you wanna really say with that?
        nix23 6y ago
        Murdered by white Canadian males...that's what you wanna say? https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/ppvx8g/a-closer-look-at-nunavuts-notoriously-high-murder-rate-324 https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/ppvx8g/a-closer-look-at-n...
        kube-system 6y ago
        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.
        nix23 6y ago
        >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-indigenous-murder-victims https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/23/canada-indigen...
    - michael1999 6y ago
      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_school_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc... How about an electric chair? https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/st-anne-residential-school-opp-documents https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/st-anne-residential... https://www.facinghistory.org/stolen-lives-indigenous-peoples-canada-and-indian-residential-schools/chapter-4/punishment-and-abuse https://www.facinghistory.org/stolen-lives-indigenous-people... https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_residential_school_system/ https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_residential_sc...
- codemac 6y ago
  You have to know there is a huge difference between showing and managing your initial anger response, and plotting a murder.
  - nix23 6y ago
    >managing your initial anger response And whats with long term anger response?
silicon2401 6y ago
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.

nix23 6y ago

Does not seam to work very well either: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/23/canada-indigenous-murder-victims https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/23/canada-indigen...

Scaevolus 6y ago
Do you have any evidence that those murders occur _within_ their communities by people raised like this?
- nix23 6y ago
  >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?
  - Scaevolus 6y ago
    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.
    - nix23 6y ago
      "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?
      - shadowfiend 6y ago
        The article you linked talks about indigenous people being murdered, not committing murders. So what do you wanna really say with that?
        nix23 6y ago
        Murdered by white Canadian males...that's what you wanna say? https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/ppvx8g/a-closer-look-at-nunavuts-notoriously-high-murder-rate-324 https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/ppvx8g/a-closer-look-at-n...
        kube-system 6y ago
        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.
        nix23 6y ago
        >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-indigenous-murder-victims https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/23/canada-indigen...
  - michael1999 6y ago
    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_school_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc... How about an electric chair? https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/st-anne-residential-school-opp-documents https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/st-anne-residential... https://www.facinghistory.org/stolen-lives-indigenous-peoples-canada-and-indian-residential-schools/chapter-4/punishment-and-abuse https://www.facinghistory.org/stolen-lives-indigenous-people... https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_residential_school_system/ https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_residential_sc...
codemac 6y ago
You have to know there is a huge difference between showing and managing your initial anger response, and plotting a murder.
- nix23 6y ago
  >managing your initial anger response And whats with long term anger response?

silicon2401 6y ago

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.