Odškodnění za historickou křivdu a mezigenerační trauma

Canadian First Nations (Indians) are said to suffer historical trauma from attendance at residential schools, through loss of culture passed down across generations. But the empirical evidence for this claim is weak. Less than a third of Canadian Indians ever attended residential schools, and the av...

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Published in:Kulturní studia
Main Author: Tom Flanagan
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Czech
German
English
Russian
Slovak
Published: Kulturní studia 2022
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7160/KS.2022.190201cs
https://doaj.org/article/244abc4c79724cef8da3047ba84e8d41
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Summary:Canadian First Nations (Indians) are said to suffer historical trauma from attendance at residential schools, through loss of culture passed down across generations. But the empirical evidence for this claim is weak. Less than a third of Canadian Indians ever attended residential schools, and the average period of attendance was only 4.5 years. Moreover, the research on intergenerational trauma arising from attendance at the residential schools suffers from numerous methodological weaknesses described in detail in the paper. Claims of intergenerational trauma are being used to justify demands for reparations, but that amounts to transferring wealth from contemporary people who have done nothing wrong to other contemporary people who have suffered no wrong.