When I'm doing my Health 250 homework I hate reading about health studies that differentiate the issues between ethnic groups. The rate of alcoholism in Native Americans has nothing to do with their ethnicity, but their social and economic status in the United States. This sentence in my book says "Scientists have also suggested that genetic factors may contribute to [unhealthy] patterns of alcohol use by Native Americans." Even if that is so, the real issue that should be addressed is. "The data shows that [unhealthy] alcohol use by Native Americans is caused at least partially by the white man raping and pillaging everything they once knew to be good and true."
Also, I don't like thinking of myself as belonging to the white demographic that this chapter refers to. Do their figures really represent me? Do they really represent anybody? Probably not.
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