Loudmouth,

"A sense of hopelessness ? Maybe, but at least as much, a sort of arrogance ..."

I understand you completely. I think this attitude can also be seen in some sections of the wider community who also are life-long welfare recipients, and who accept this as their due.

A victim mentality, which saps them of any initiative and from taking responsibility for themselves.

Often it is very people who are supposed to be 'helping' them, who impose this mentality upon them, and also collude in maintaining the victim-hood status. Thus, robbing them of dignity.

So much for those sociologists; they need to go back to the drawing board

Dear Joe (Loudmouth),

You know more on this issue than I do
so I have to bow to your expertise.
However, answer me this question.
Is the infrastructure and social services
there for them in rural areas? Why the
80% unemployment rate?

Is the infrastructure and social services there for them in rural areas?
Why the 80% unemployment rate.
Lexi,
The first answer is yes, yes & yes again just to make sure. In case you still have doubts I am one of those many non-idigenous who do not enjoy have half as much infrastructure & support.
The second answer is that even though the work is available it is not wanted. If you think it is then ask yourself why there are thousands upon thousands of outsiders going to the communities & making very good money which is then taken back to be spent where it first came from. Why is it not spent in the communities you may ask ? Because the communities will not & can not sell land for people to live & spend their money there, only their working life then they have to get out.

Dear Lexi,

The short answer is 'yes'.

Go back a few years and have a look at the plant and infrastructure of an Indigenous 'community': phenomenal, enough for towns ten times their size.

After all, the population of many Indigenous settlements is very low, usually less than two hundred,often less than fifty, and non-Indigenous villages of that size would have pretty close to nothing at all, in the way of infrastructure. And what they have, the population there has usually had to fork out for and fund itself.

Sorry, my dear friend, that's not it.

A good old-fashioned work ethic might do the trick. How to get people used to that idea, that nothing comes from nothing, that if they put nothing in they are entitled to nothing out, is the problem.

Joe

Joe much of what you say, even if you are pulling my leg is true.
But you know as do others, a culture that has love but no discipline is a failure.
I believe me, have trouble putting my thoughts on this issue in to words.
I am truly, in pain on this issue.
Kids now adults I bought up are wed in to this community and are of no help the boys/men, to them settling in to the same culture drinking just as much neglecting just as much.
How many know about the increased birth rates in this community?
How many understand the kids in foster care rose at the same rate as the births?
That in my tiny village 13 kids are fostered?
We can not just put in their hands and say you fix it!
Some can not read or write,some never went to school.
I wish too we had a thousand Noel s.
But get PC and whites out of the gravy train.
Put laws in place and jobs, for all unemployed white or any color.
We need to put in place a Social contract, that lifts even the unwilling out of this cesspit.

Belly,
the scariest part of it all is that some of them get into public service positions at a very handsome rate of pay. Their pay & subsequent mismanagement expenses are sanctioned by white unionists & bureaucrats at our cost.