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Thread #121227 Message #2645076
Posted By: wysiwyg
31-May-09 - 03:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: Blogs About People of Color & Culture
Subject: RE: BS: Blogs About People of Color & Culture
This is from BI I referenced, that looks to culture:
Onaje Mu'id - MSW and CASAC (Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor) with the Practitioners Research and Scholarship Institute (PRASI) Topics: post-colonial, reconciliation, trauma healing
I've reviewed so many of those interviews (while driving or aquajogging, with no notepad), that only a few of the individual interviews really stand out for me at this point. It's best for people to look there and see what is of interest to them, and think about the context of each interview.
From the above interview, tho, here's a snip from the transcript:
.... so how do you get them to use conflict resolution philosophy and skills to reduce contradiction in conflict so they can create harmonious and cooperative relationships? So I'm tying in historical trauma, how that has damaged ??? people and how that has also destroyed their culture, changed their culture, morphed their culture -- instead of it being like a mother and caretaker, their culture in fact creates high rates of homicide, high rates of suicide, that creates a ??? type of mentality, so it's transforming the culture so that people can transform themselves. But it starts with people transforming themselves, so that they can transform the culture, so it's a dynamic between the two. So if there is an answer it's in cultural restoration. ....