Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "VICE News"
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They immediately conclude that residential schools caused this wave of violence, but that is just an assumption. Indigenous peoples around the world are struggling with very high rates of violence within their communities, regardless of whether they went to residential schools or not. We see this all over the Arctic, in Canada, Greenland, Siberia. We see it in Australia and New Zealand, Latin America, among the Ainu people in Japan and many other places.
One possibility is that it is not indigenous communities that are abnormally violent, but modern, urbanized societies that have achieved extraordinary low levels of violence over centuries. In other words, what modern society sees as normal levels of violence are in fact highly unusual in world history.
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