Currently, this consists of maladaptation to enforced farming imposed on an ancient culture based on fishing and hunting tradition.
In addition, oppression and suppression by the dominant Russian culture through exclusion from economical and social participation in community-based activities has led to poverty in remote villages and a driving need by the younger generation to prove themselves by migrating to larger cities, to become more Russian and less “old-fashioned.”
Yet, in becoming “civilized,” younger Asiatic Russians are no longer in touch with the land of their ancestors. This has led to maladaption caused by social isolation, resulting in psychological suffering including behavior and mood disorders, and rare morbidity (suicide) when isolation consists of living abroad in an English-speaking country.
Recenty, a Russian woman of Tungus extraction went abroad to study at a Canadian university in northern British Columbia. After doing poorly in her final examinations, she went missing and was found dead of exposure.
Because of the emphasis on using shame and guilt common to Asiatic culture to ensure that a person's selfish desires and passions do not led to destruction of the family unit, this young lady died because she'd never learned as a child how to detach her sense of self from academic performance. In short, noboy at the university told her that it's okay to fail academically. Indeed, she was socially isolated from her family who were a world away from northern BC.
http://www.unbc.ca/experts/health.html
In response, the university now has a history student who is knowledgeable about health problems in north Russia as expert at the health centre to answer questions.
Mainly though, social isolation led to suicide because no one at the university truly could make her a part of their family because she only knew Russian and her mother tongue.
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