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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To 06:29 I would agree that it is not appropriate to remove children from their families and cultures, but there is a cultural change that does desperately need to happen.

That being, that education needs to be valued, that it needs to be taught and reinforced that education and hard work is what will lift one from poverty and difficult circumstance, nothing else will.

[b]Consider that much in current "culture" is transitory; appearance, dress, and habits generally just a few decades old at most (the great-grandparents of today's urban youth were nothing like today's urban youth), whereas Native Americans had a culture millennia deep that was disrupted[/b].[/quote]

ITA -- As an AA I am tired of people (in general, both minority and non-minority) spouted this nonsense about contemporary urban culture (dress, attitude towards women and lack of respect for education) as if it was intrinsic or had an historical legacy dated back hundreds of years.  Now the legacy of poverty and lack of access to resources are historical--slavery and structural racism--however, my grandparents did not react to racism and limited access to cultural/social capital like today's "urban" culture.  [/quote]

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