PSYC 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Rita Joe, Inuktitut, Postcolonialism
16 Apr 2016
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Before europeans settled in america, there were 53 aboriginal groups speaking 53 different languages spoken (with even more dialects within those languages) Only 3 languages in good shape - ojibwe (only 50% of people still speak it [don"t write/ read it], cree, inuktitut. The others are either endangered or on the verge of extinction. The younger the person is in that community, the less likely they know the language. Bottom line: the legacy and destruction left behind by colonialism continues on. Recall 100 million aboriginals died post-colonialism can nearly never recover (your cultural identity) from this (ex. compared with china"s one child policy/world wars, where it takes 2 or 3 generations to bring the population numbers up again) The most studied and focused on concept having to do with the self is self-esteem. Self-esteem (speci cally, low-self esteem) seems to get involved with practically every personal and social problem imaginable.
