I'm ashamed to tell people I'm aboriginal because some aboriginal people make me ashamed to tell people I'm aboriginal.
Why do you hate aboriginal culture?
I hate the fact that most aboriginal people are governed by alcohol, drugs every day. That every generation of aboriginal people are self-destructive after all the paternal / colonial abuse they received.
Feeling shame about aboriginals as a culture just because you may have seen a couple of instances of self-destructive behaviours like taking alcohol and drugs is incorrect. Have pride in your ethnicity and celebrate all the positives.
Yeah it's the alcohol and drugs that makes us the violent people that we are. It's not like a good percentage of our people are lazy,stay drunk everyday,be on welfare and don't work,get high on heroine,have their children taken away,and commit suicide at a higher rate than anyone else.
There is a lot more to being from that culture than drugs and violence. Take the good parts and make those the focal points when you talk about it.