Question

Why do you think every Native American you have met can't do a certain activity?

Answer 1

Native Americans do have a higher rate of alcoholism. Maybe if someone took over our land and then stuck us in concentration camps and forever changed the landscape of our future, we may turn to alcohol too, or we may do what the palestinians did when their land was handed over to someone else; sit and wait for the world to be outraged.

Answer 2

lots of people fail to get with the program

Answer 3

I'm part Native American and I don't drink at all. I've known several that do drink on occasion, but have never seen them drunk. It's an old stereotype.

Answer 4

I am native american and rarely drink alcohol. However, I do have twin half brothers who are white and are both alcoholics. Your perception is racist, even if you did not mean to be. Not a big deal though, I believe that everyone is racist in some way.

Answer 5

Probably they are all still recovering from the shock of when they were first invaded by white immigrants, can you blame them.

Answer 6

Could everyone quit whining about racism? I know a guy who is indian, and he walks around with a beer in his hand constantly. He never gets "drunk." "Drunk" is a psychological thing. It's all in your head. I know, because my mom got her brother "drunk" off of sparkling cider one time. I drunk some and it did not hurt me at all, but he was drunker than Cooter Brown.

Answer 7

I have met some descendents of Native Americans with Mexican in them and none of them will have a thing to do with alcohol and find it extremely dangerous and it is offensive to be a drunk. I don't know if it matters they were all minutely related to each other.... . . So some do not fit the stereotype. I bet there are others.

Answer 8

Sounds racist to me! You can't make a sweeping generalization like "all the ones I've met", especially if your exposure to Native Americans, or any other nationality is limited. Trust me, that is the same thing as using the profound statement "I have black friends" to try to prove you are not prejudice.

Answer 9

Here is the definition of racism.... . The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. . Enough said