The “generational trauma” thing is very real, I talk with people who grew up where I am and whose parents did too and they don’t know shit about what’s like coming from a 3rd or 2nd world background. Which is not a condemnation of them, but sometimes it gets gross, like a partner made some comment about wishing their family’s history was as cool as mine because it produced a very interesting person (me), and I got kind of upset because it’s a history of suffering due to the west’s colonial actions, and between intergenerational trauma and firsthand trauma I and my siblings are utter wrecks of humans in ways that we wouldn’t have been had we been white westerners. Sure there’d be other problems, but I would trade for those problems.
I was lucky to have the privilige to have no material wants, but the cultural and psychological shocks of Soviet history I did still feel.
Those scars are not cool and quirky, I personally don’t know if I would get rid of them, they are part of me, of what defines me.
But I would swap my parents NGL (though a lot of the issues they have are personal, IDK in how large a part due to their history).
It’s still hard to fathom that my (technically step-) grandpa was born during the war, played in collapsed ruins as a child and still remembers having had to eat acorns or rather bread made of acorn flour to get by (despite his family being relatively well off for the times); I can’t even properly process that…
Edit: I’m also sorry for your personal history having been plagued by colonialism, I can’t even imagine what that baggage must be like, sorry… :/
Tbh I’m hoping to set up appropriate tech installations to make a whole bunch of the latter, like the rightful stewards of this territory did for millennia.
There’s a big difference between “eating raw acorns”, which will make you sick, and “eating bread from well-rinsed acorn flour”, which is one of the best ways to make use of an abundant forest product and which has been done all over the world.
You probably don’t need to. “Bread from acorn flour” and “relatively well off” probably means they had running water and large jars. A kid eating unrinsed acorn flour will not stomach more than 100 kcal per day of it without getting sick.
Still, no matter what the context, eating acorn foods just sounds badass.
The “generational trauma” thing is very real, I talk with people who grew up where I am and whose parents did too and they don’t know shit about what’s like coming from a 3rd or 2nd world background. Which is not a condemnation of them, but sometimes it gets gross, like a partner made some comment about wishing their family’s history was as cool as mine because it produced a very interesting person (me), and I got kind of upset because it’s a history of suffering due to the west’s colonial actions, and between intergenerational trauma and firsthand trauma I and my siblings are utter wrecks of humans in ways that we wouldn’t have been had we been white westerners. Sure there’d be other problems, but I would trade for those problems.
I was lucky to have the privilige to have no material wants, but the cultural and psychological shocks of Soviet history I did still feel.
Those scars are not cool and quirky, I personally don’t know if I would get rid of them, they are part of me, of what defines me.
But I would swap my parents NGL (though a lot of the issues they have are personal, IDK in how large a part due to their history).
It’s still hard to fathom that my (technically step-) grandpa was born during the war, played in collapsed ruins as a child and still remembers having had to eat acorns or rather bread made of acorn flour to get by (despite his family being relatively well off for the times); I can’t even properly process that…
Edit: I’m also sorry for your personal history having been plagued by colonialism, I can’t even imagine what that baggage must be like, sorry… :/
Raw acorn flour or rinsed acorn flour?
Tbh I’m hoping to set up appropriate tech installations to make a whole bunch of the latter, like the rightful stewards of this territory did for millennia.
I don’t even k ow what you are talking about ^^’
I’m talking about the agroforestry of Algonquian peoples (and others too).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IsW0icwlnuo&list=PLCeA6DzL9P4seWTabyYosTDrJ5txOJBys
There’s a big difference between “eating raw acorns”, which will make you sick, and “eating bread from well-rinsed acorn flour”, which is one of the best ways to make use of an abundant forest product and which has been done all over the world.
Ah, interesting! I was not told, don’t know whether I’ll want to ask to clarify tho
You probably don’t need to. “Bread from acorn flour” and “relatively well off” probably means they had running water and large jars. A kid eating unrinsed acorn flour will not stomach more than 100 kcal per day of it without getting sick.
Still, no matter what the context, eating acorn foods just sounds badass.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: