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"Indigenous families typically have a world view in which a member of the community voluntarily contributes towards something to the greater community. " I don
by jollybean 5y ago
"Indigenous families typically have a world view in which a member of the community voluntarily contributes towards something to the greater community. "
I don't see how this is different than anywhere else. That's actually 'individual responsibility' rephrased: it's someone's 'individual responsibility to do their part'. The word 'duty' has historically always been party of our lexicon, although fallen off quite rapidly in the last couple generations.
The issue is not one of 'responsibility' because if people undertook that the world would be fine, it's all these thing v. 'personal expression or fulfillment' which is now the thing we teach people. Which is fine of course, but it doesn't gel very well with the day to day and the fact that the bulk of it is just 'grind' and often not obviously self oriented.
I could 'write a book' that was 'informed from my WW2 era grandparents' who were born on farms without electricity, about what 'community' means. That would be the experience most Westerners would have.