Aboriginal Communities and Suicide
- 1 August 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Australasian Psychiatry
- Vol. 4 (4) , 195-199
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10398569609080488
Abstract
Collective despair, or collective lack of hope, will lead us to collective suicide. This type of suicide can take many forms, foreshadowed by many possible signs: identity crisis, loss of pride, every kind of dependence, denial of our customs and traditions, degradation of our environment, weakening of our language, abandonment of our struggle for our Aboriginal rights, our autonomy and our culture, uncaring acceptance of violence, passive acknowledgment of lack of work and unemployment, corruption of our morals, tolerance of drugs and idleness, parental surrendering of responsibilities, lack of respect for elders, envy of those who try to keep their heads up and who might succeed, and so on.Keywords
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