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Transcript: M. Kauila Clark

We have to change attitudes in order to change behaviors

[Clark:]
What I call victimization, where Hawaiians take on this attitude of being a victim, and when they do, they have this attitude that somebody has to take care of them because things have been taken away from them like loss of language, culture, and those things, and a lot of what we deal with is understanding cultural identity, because in that victimization, they’ve given up their cultural identity.
[Lindberg:]
It’s a totally self-defeating attitude.
[Clark:]
Yes, yes, and so a lot of what we have to deal with is behavioral— behavioral health, because we have to change attitudes in order to change behaviors.