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When you disagree with aspects of your own cultural traditions

Everyone expects me to be grateful for learning our traditional ways but honestly I find some of the old beliefs sexist and outdated and I do not know how to honor my heritage while disagreeing with parts of it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Critical thinking about inherited culture can create guilt and confusion about how much questioning is acceptable within tradition.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous coming-of-age traditions?”

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