American Indians And Discrimination Essay
Perceived Discrimination and early Substance Abuse Among American Indian Children
Introduction
It’s important to know the ins and outs of how things happen. Discrimination is a big thing that doesn’t seem real to a lot of people but, it is to American Indians. When it comes to the younger American Indians it is especially important as to why inside and outside influence might play a role in discrimination in the drug role and the minors in that society. The further you look into it the more you start to see mainly in the upper Midwest region.
There is all this information on adults in the psychological field as well as other fields but, one does not look into the possibility that childhood could be the start of some of the discrimination problems involving attitude that leads to behaviors that can be self-destructing such as drugs. It can lead one to believe that all children in that culture do drugs even though they don’t (otherwise known as a stereotype). Why is it in the American Indian culture and why it happening to them so young? So young as middle schooler’s? CITATION Kes99 \l 1033 (Kessler, 1999)What researchers decided to do to find out what the real problem was in the particular culture was to have willing …show more content…
tribes and boards to read reports that were written about their problem. However, how was one to trust anyone when negative studies have been done and has caused many problems among the American Indians and other cultures? CITATION Del69 \l 1033 (Deloria, 1969). The study was approved and then began. Approximately 84% of the tribes did the survey but, there was about 10% that did not want any part of the survey. Regardless of everything that was available to each tribe household incomes varied from $10,000-35,000. At the same time that also depended on if one or two parents working and how far away they were from work and what kind of work they had. Many of the dual parent households were on some sort of family assistance.
When it came to the children the results were alarming as the reasons why the children from the ages of 9-16 did the drugs and other things wrong in their life was due to discrimination. However, one thing that remains interesting is females seem to reach out to get help then that of a male.
In conclusion one should not use discriminate against anyone as it does have a profound effect on those you think it may not. Drugs, alcohol, depression, mental disorders and all kinds of things in this day and age can really lead a person to believe that drugs will make your pains and worries go away like in this situation with the children. It is terribly sad that they had to go through this at all.
If there is anything at all that could be changed about this entire situation it would start with the parents, relatives, daycare workers and teachers.
It starts with people that your children are around that makes them develop in a society. The more they are around something the more they develop from it and or it can have a negative impact on them. It doesn’t start in adulthood it starts with adults and with siblings and with they have learned. Just remember there are all kinds of mental disorders now that have been identified while others have not. Is it that they have not been identified or is that it they are really not disorders and they are really that no one wants to answer to the terrible things that have been done to these
people?
Personally what I see is doctors putting children on drugs and instead of them taking them they are selling them for other drugs and that creates problems as well and leads to a future of failure. We are supposed to create a future of success. What kind of world are we going to have if we are messing up all these different cultures and offending them to the point that they don’t even feel comfortable with who they are that they have to do drugs or other things to feel better about themselves? Being personally discriminated against is not a good feeling and no one would not want to feel or go through this so why not band together and just like we have breast cancer awareness why not have discrimination awareness? We have the power to make a difference.
Works Cited BIBLIOGRAPHY Deloria, V. (1969). Custer Died for Your Sins. New York: Avon.
Kessler, R. C. (1999). "The Prevalence, Distribution, and Mental Health Correlates of Perceived Discrimination in the United States.". Perceived discrimination and early substance abuse among American Indian children, pp. 40;208-30.
Introduction
It’s important to know the ins and outs of how things happen. Discrimination is a big thing that doesn’t seem real to a lot of people but, it is to American Indians. When it comes to the younger American Indians it is especially important as to why inside and outside influence might play a role in discrimination in the drug role and the minors in that society. The further you look into it the more you start to see mainly in the upper Midwest region.
There is all this information on adults in the psychological field as well as other fields but, one does not look into the possibility that childhood could be the start of some of the discrimination problems involving attitude that leads to behaviors that can be self-destructing such as drugs. It can lead one to believe that all children in that culture do drugs even though they don’t (otherwise known as a stereotype). Why is it in the American Indian culture and why it happening to them so young? So young as middle schooler’s? CITATION Kes99 \l 1033 (Kessler, 1999)What researchers decided to do to find out what the real problem was in the particular culture was to have willing …show more content…
tribes and boards to read reports that were written about their problem. However, how was one to trust anyone when negative studies have been done and has caused many problems among the American Indians and other cultures? CITATION Del69 \l 1033 (Deloria, 1969). The study was approved and then began. Approximately 84% of the tribes did the survey but, there was about 10% that did not want any part of the survey. Regardless of everything that was available to each tribe household incomes varied from $10,000-35,000. At the same time that also depended on if one or two parents working and how far away they were from work and what kind of work they had. Many of the dual parent households were on some sort of family assistance.
When it came to the children the results were alarming as the reasons why the children from the ages of 9-16 did the drugs and other things wrong in their life was due to discrimination. However, one thing that remains interesting is females seem to reach out to get help then that of a male.
In conclusion one should not use discriminate against anyone as it does have a profound effect on those you think it may not. Drugs, alcohol, depression, mental disorders and all kinds of things in this day and age can really lead a person to believe that drugs will make your pains and worries go away like in this situation with the children. It is terribly sad that they had to go through this at all.
If there is anything at all that could be changed about this entire situation it would start with the parents, relatives, daycare workers and teachers.
It starts with people that your children are around that makes them develop in a society. The more they are around something the more they develop from it and or it can have a negative impact on them. It doesn’t start in adulthood it starts with adults and with siblings and with they have learned. Just remember there are all kinds of mental disorders now that have been identified while others have not. Is it that they have not been identified or is that it they are really not disorders and they are really that no one wants to answer to the terrible things that have been done to these
people?
Personally what I see is doctors putting children on drugs and instead of them taking them they are selling them for other drugs and that creates problems as well and leads to a future of failure. We are supposed to create a future of success. What kind of world are we going to have if we are messing up all these different cultures and offending them to the point that they don’t even feel comfortable with who they are that they have to do drugs or other things to feel better about themselves? Being personally discriminated against is not a good feeling and no one would not want to feel or go through this so why not band together and just like we have breast cancer awareness why not have discrimination awareness? We have the power to make a difference.
Works Cited BIBLIOGRAPHY Deloria, V. (1969). Custer Died for Your Sins. New York: Avon.
Kessler, R. C. (1999). "The Prevalence, Distribution, and Mental Health Correlates of Perceived Discrimination in the United States.". Perceived discrimination and early substance abuse among American Indian children, pp. 40;208-30.