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From: clyde@reed.UUCP (Clyde Bryja)
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Subject: Re: Re: Sunny's  PMS comments
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Date: Mon, 2-Sep-85 20:12:35 EDT
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> > I'm back from my lecture now.  Sunny, you lean toward attributing mental
> > state and behavior to physical factors, such as hormones.  I'm still not
> > convinced that culture and upbringing don't have at least as much effect
> > as hormones do.  For instance, strong displays of anger are uncommon
> > among Eskimos; is this because they have low testosterone levels, or is it
> > because their society has to insure that they can stand each other while
> > stuck in an igloo for 6 months of darkness?
> 
> I know one Eskimo girl (actually a princess of her tribe) whose Eskimo
> father was a batterer, and left her deeply emotionally scarred with his
> anger and violence.
>  
> (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)

I have one major question regarding this:

Can anyone tell me if incidents like what Sunny describes happened BEFORE
the Eskimos were forced to greatly change their way of life due to the
influence of our society?  All of the Eskimos that I have seen were earning
their living by menial labour jobs in the port of Churchill, Manitoba.
Violence among these people does not (in my opinion) stain the record of
traditional Eskimo culture.  I admit, though, that I only know hearsay about
that culture.  Does anybody out there know more?

Sunny, could you please tell me more about the way of life of the people
you describe?  Unless told otherwise, I shall assume that they are not among
those (very few, as I understand) Eskimos that still live the way they all
used to.  I shall assume this only because that seems much more likely to me.
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