JC> JK> We have been carefully taught NOT to accept personal responsiblity 
or
JC> JK> our own actions for some years now.
JC> I assume you are using "we" in a _general_ "American societal" way. I am
JC> almost 60 years old, not NA and I was always taught that I was totally
JC> responsible for my actions. The old saying: "You've made your bed,..."
Agreed.  "We" didn't used to be taught to be irresponsible until after
WWII.
JC> JK> Not at all how Indian children
JC> JK> were raised long ago according to some folks I have talked with and I
JC> JK> can assure you that not at all how children were raised by my
JC> JK> grandparents, either!
JC> Actually, I think "shucking the responsibility" is a fairly new (last ten
JC> years or so) phenomena. And, in many cases, used by the "lazy" who are
JC> looking for an easy way out.
It began just after WWII by social workers who adapted and adopted a
paper by a couple of Navy psychiatrists who didn't have enough to keep
them busy during WWII when they were stationed in the South Pacific.
JC> JK> Frankly, I prefered the subject matter I had.
JC> Well, "we" (the ubiquitous, generic, all-encompassing "we") are 
responsible
JC> for the subject matter being taught in our schools.
There are a few of the "we" who are not "us". They are the ones who
manage to gain control of the schools because the rest of us are too
damn lazy to go to meetings.
JC> Rights and Civil Rights Eras of the 1960s to the State of Washington ( 
an
JC> you say "Slade Gorton"?) vs. The Indians Era.
That name is no friend to the Native American in this state.
JC> Doesn't mystify me much. There are a _LOT_ of people that either _don't_
JC> _want_ to know about their heritage or don't want _others_ to know about
JC> their heritage. Usually caused by guilt or embarrassment. A generic name
JC> for these people might be: "Americans" or "Conservative Right".
Oh, they can track it back through the churches.  Those are the same
folks who placed others in stocks and drowned "witches" in Salem.
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