A reponse that I made to another blog www.sweetcomplexity.blogspot.com
... I just recently graduated from NAU and I found that it seemed that all the Navajo students there to be rather obnoxious and vulgar. I just think it's a sign of the times and some of us aren't ready to accept it. But,of course, I was a much older classmate, to some I was old enough to be their "high school statistic" dad. Well actually I was 32 when I graduated. Anyway, I think the days of the quiet Navajo are numbered. As society progress to be come more forthcoming and where repect is expected and not earned, these kids lose their place in the pecking order. It's not their fault, they were just raised that way. Even though you are 10 years younger than me, I think you just took a step in your parents shoes, if you know what I mean, and although you may have thought that would never happen but you were urked that some chump felt compelled to broadcast his cell phone conversation. What makes it worse is that he was Navajo. Out of character, right? Something you would expect Kelly-from-Connecticut to do but not Herbert-from-Pinon. I felt that we as indigneous peoples were always under a microscope when some thing happened. Drunk driving, domestic violence, welfare, casinos, and Red Lake, Minnesota. It's just we, as future Navajo professionals, to not allow our people to become more and more like the stereotyped indian, dumb, drunk, broke,and conquered.. And wearing turquois like Sammy Davis Jr. doesn't help. Maybe I'm just an old fart yelling at kids, "get off my lawn!"...
I'm finding this to become more of a potential problem to our people.
"I love rap music, but I'm tired of defending it". -Chris Rock
... I just recently graduated from NAU and I found that it seemed that all the Navajo students there to be rather obnoxious and vulgar. I just think it's a sign of the times and some of us aren't ready to accept it. But,of course, I was a much older classmate, to some I was old enough to be their "high school statistic" dad. Well actually I was 32 when I graduated. Anyway, I think the days of the quiet Navajo are numbered. As society progress to be come more forthcoming and where repect is expected and not earned, these kids lose their place in the pecking order. It's not their fault, they were just raised that way. Even though you are 10 years younger than me, I think you just took a step in your parents shoes, if you know what I mean, and although you may have thought that would never happen but you were urked that some chump felt compelled to broadcast his cell phone conversation. What makes it worse is that he was Navajo. Out of character, right? Something you would expect Kelly-from-Connecticut to do but not Herbert-from-Pinon. I felt that we as indigneous peoples were always under a microscope when some thing happened. Drunk driving, domestic violence, welfare, casinos, and Red Lake, Minnesota. It's just we, as future Navajo professionals, to not allow our people to become more and more like the stereotyped indian, dumb, drunk, broke,and conquered.. And wearing turquois like Sammy Davis Jr. doesn't help. Maybe I'm just an old fart yelling at kids, "get off my lawn!"...
I'm finding this to become more of a potential problem to our people.
"I love rap music, but I'm tired of defending it". -Chris Rock
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