Edmonton Sun | 20Jul2011 | Orest Slepokura
http://www.edmontonsun.com/2011/07/19/letters-july-20-2
Maladjusted
Re: “Cultural violence abounds,” Mindelle Jacobs, July 16, 2011.
Transplant immigrants imbued with tribal values to an urban setting
where their teenage children become acculturated to different norms by
their peers and conflict is natural. The children are expected to
straddle two incompatible worlds without breaking a sweat,
without giving their parents any grief: at school they endure
subtle bullying and peer pressure as they struggle to fit in;
at home their harried parents demand they uncritically submit to
traditional codes of conduct. Maladaptive teens are dealt with in the
tribal way: with beatings and other staples of household abuse. It
makes for alienated and disaffected youth, often making bad choices.
Orest Slepokura
(Happens way too often.)