Inuit practical view of life
By winterose
@winterose (39887)
Canada
July 13, 2012 5:46pm CST
I was watching a documentary today about the Inuits in the Arctic. They talk about their heritage and they don't dress it up. What was good was good and what was bad is bad.
They don't believe in writing good things to say about a situation just so people who want to hear good things can. They are a very practical people and the tell life as it is for them not as how other people feel it should be talked about.
Not everything in life is good, that is a fact and many people don't like to hear that.
I found in my writing when I wrote about things that were not so good in my life, some people wanted me to dress it up make it sound better. Well it wasn't better and to make it sound better would be a lie and a misrepresentation of what happened.
I also wrote about good things in my life but there was more bad that good. I could not help that.
My thinking is much like the Inuit.
Any thoughts?
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4 responses
@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
14 Jul 12
Stop the train and let me off! Just kidding. I agree to make it 'acceptable to some people' you have to be less graphic. They don't want to hear there are starving people in Africa. They don't want to hear that poverty strikes people with doctorate degrees. They want to hear that their world is fine.
You get accused of looking for sympathy if you speak of your own life and it wasn't good. Or if you are sick you get attacked for writing about it and told your subject matter is disgusting.
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
14 Jul 12
hi PQ you are so right yet we could gain a lot by reading the
nitty gritty and having some warmth and sympathy for others. also sometimes big good changes can be made by people who read the bad and care about it enough to help make changes for others.It is sad that we want only the good when sometimes the bad just needs pepple who care and do something to bring about good changes. those who made medical history were those who turned the bad into good.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
14 Jul 12
exactly ladies we have to talk about the bad or nobody will know about it, we have to talk about the bad for as Hatley says, people can do something about it to change it.
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@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
14 Jul 12
I agree with you Auntie Hatley. I have read your book Winterose, and I have also read your stories on poverty. I remember you being attacked for it online.. remember? Everyone wants to hear the good stuff, and if there is bad stuff they don't want us to admit that we have those bad times.. they would rather the face of poverty be on some faceless, nameless person and not someone they know. That's my take.
@jaiho2009 (39140)
• Philippines
14 Jul 12
Because some people believes in fairy tales.
If we only look around,we may find other people living a hard life than we have.
Some still manages a smile no matter how hard life is and how harsh life gives.
While there are other people who have everything and still complaining.
Maybe if they have any choice (Inuit)they want another kind of life.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
14 Jul 12
they are proud of their heritage and culture and they are a strong people, they can live another kind of life they don't want to, they like as much like their ancestors as they can. Culture is very important to them.
@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
14 Jul 12
i completely agree with you. History should not be sugar-coated. for example, my grandparents were in Denmark when the Nazis took over. They were not against all Germans, just the nazis that invaded Denmark. Then the war ended, and all was forgiven. sometimes in history, bad stuff happens. We should not try to sugar-coat it, and we should not try and forget. We should, however, move on with life, and not let old prejudices get in the way of the current generation.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
14 Jul 12
Your points are valid,
but my life is my life, and I will not sugar coat it because some people don't like that every episode of my life did not have a happy ever ending to it.
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
14 Jul 12
hi winterose yes I think people who live in colder climates often tend to get practical. I was born and grew up on a farm i n South Dakota and we learned some basics when traveling in the winter. you take along extra warm clothing, water , extra food, extra gasoline, extra tire, flares, and now da ys a cell phone. you do not go far from home on a snowy day with out those extras else you could getcaught in a blizzard and die there.I have probably left out a few more things but you get the idea. we were practical people and another thing do not ever b y pass someone with car trouble as towns are few and far between. we all helped each other and repaid each other at times.there are both good and bad things about that state.
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