A mental health commissioner says all New Zealanders could learn something from Maori about dealing with people with mental illness. Ray Watson says discrimination is one of the biggest challenges faced by those with mental health issues. He says many people still want to go back to the days when suffers were locked out of sight, but he doesn't see that among Maori. "Traditionally of course Maori communities are very accepting of difference, and so certainly in my experience in dealing with whanau and the hapu level or the iwi level Maori communities are very accepting of someone who's different in any way." Ray Watson says awareness campaigns like Like Minds Like Mine are having a positive impact.
Kind of the opposite of your: all these works even better in a tribal or quazi-tribal society than in capitalistic one, especially if you are looked upon as even a bit "strange" or a bit of outcast. comment, yes?
hmmm maybe I'm missing something, yes. I judge from what I've seen in my own life communicating with people loving in "simple" ways. in fact, I was someone slightly different and so beaten, humiliated and bullied in every possible way on a regular basis.
maybe I'm wrong somewhere extending "tribal ways" over anything that looks like primitive society... I have to give it a good thinking, yes. I'll do ;)
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A mental health commissioner says all New Zealanders could learn something from Maori about dealing with people with mental illness. Ray Watson says discrimination is one of the biggest challenges faced by those with mental health issues. He says many people still want to go back to the days when suffers were locked out of sight, but he doesn't see that among Maori. "Traditionally of course Maori communities are very accepting of difference, and so certainly in my experience in dealing with whanau and the hapu level or the iwi level Maori communities are very accepting of someone who's different in any way." Ray Watson says awareness campaigns like Like Minds Like Mine are having a positive impact.
Kind of the opposite of your: all these works even better in a tribal or quazi-tribal society than in capitalistic one, especially if you are looked upon as even a bit "strange" or a bit of outcast. comment, yes?
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maybe I'm missing something, yes. I judge from what I've seen in my own life communicating with people loving in "simple" ways. in fact, I was someone slightly different and so beaten, humiliated and bullied in every possible way on a regular basis.
maybe I'm wrong somewhere extending "tribal ways" over anything that looks like primitive society...
I have to give it a good thinking, yes. I'll do ;)