Indians are from India.It's the Indians, or Native Americans if you like.
It's the Indians, or Native Americans if you like.
Indians are from India.
Native Americans are the indigenous people of the USA.
It's the Indians, or Native Americans if you like.
Well my point was that the tribes are sueing the stores and the town for selling them alcohol. Where is their sense of responsibility to not buy the alcohol in the first place?
Well my point was that the tribes are sueing the stores and the town for selling them alcohol. Where is their sense of responsibility to not buy the alcohol in the first place?
Perhaps the phrase 'native americans' makes non native americans feel less like invaders. If they are all americans, it cant be bad, can it?
I too am interested to hear an explanation for the choice of words used in the title of this thread.
Fine, but I'd rather you not "oh" my ethnicity as if we were all a part of this, or as if ethnicity were the problem.
How exactly would you fix the cyclical alcohol problem? Most kids there start drinking in their early teens, before their long-term decisionmaking is fully formed, because their parents do -- and because the unemployment rate is something like 80%. Do you really think saying "the solution is individual responsibility!" helps anything here? Are 12-year-olds raised in an area where half of homes have no indoor plumbing, with poor adult role models, going to pull themselves up by their bootstraps? Not trying to be a dick here. Individual responsibility is great. How do we put these kids in a situation where they have any sense of what individual responsibility is, and what they stand to gain from it, when everything around them is in ruins?
Unless your overall point is "this people deserve the way they are living because they aren't living otherwise"...then, what exactly is your point?
Not to be the angry Indian here
I really can't see the OP's use of "Oh Indians" as meaning anything other than, "Oh [typical] Indians." This linked with the article is, I believe, an attempt to make the generalization that all Native people blame their problems on Europeans that settled here, and their descendants.
To answer the OP's question, responsibility is a difficult thing to have when one is addicted and living in poverty. Since the many members of this tribe have problems with substance abuse the leaders are trying to be responsible for them by removing the problem of alcohol. Suing businesses in Whiteclay may not work as a solution to this problem, in fact the OP may find it laughable, but this does not justify slandering an ethnic group.
Sure, banning stuff sure has solved problems. Like Prohibition, when the US got rid of all alcohol in the country. That worked, didn't it?
Because an Indian tribe is suing for damages.
And them wanting to sue the beer companies for their alcoholism is like people suing McDonald's for getting them fat.