Why is it necessary to consider and understand Indigneous social life within the broader Australian society?
Australia as a nation is first and foremost an Aborigine nation. They are the people of this land, the owners if you will. By looking at neighbouring countries, it is plain to see that the white man is not native in this part of the world. As with many lands, countries, homes and village that the European has conquered for the 'best of mankind', the one common factor is the ignorance of the white man in trying to learn something from the native culture, overemphasizing their own culture and lifestyle, and ignoring deeply important characteristics of the land that they inhabit. Through arrogance and ignorance this was seen as an act of civilisation. In almost all nations colonised by the British especially, there has been the imperceptible formation of a new class system, with the white people at the top of that hierarchy. Over time, with a growing population unused to and with little experience of the controversy surrounding 'their' country, the underlying issues tend to be fo!rgotten and are replaced with the current headlines of today; the rising crime rate in areas most populated by Aborigines and the subsequent 'need' for mandatory sentencing in those areas, the debates raging over the reconciliation and native title iss
To the extent that the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) condemned Australia's human rights record, over the 'discriminatory approach to law enforcement" in Western Australia and the Northern Territory (SMH website 2). They can then understand more fully how they have been affected by the inhabitation of Australia by non-indigenous people, the prejudice! and consequent assimilation process forced on them. He must give something back to the land and people that had so much stolen from them. htmlThe Aboriginal Commonality by Basil Sansom, 1982. Only through self-proclaimed 'superiority' has Australia become the nation it is today and in order to achieve the integration that the assimilation progra!m tried to attain, we must accept that Indigenous society is very much a part of Australian society. This mentality, "rooted in Aboriginal ways of 'doing business'" (Sansom, pg 117, 1982) and the subsequent similarity and the 'fellow feeling' that comes of it, is one of the aspects of Indigenous social life that can benefit our society as a whole. No apology from the government for the assimilation process has meant that the indigenous Australians are constantly being considered inferior and the news items about the indigenous Australians having high crime rates are hardly surprising - who would respect a country that has no respect for you? Respect and self-esteem issues will affect a whole school of people who believe that they have no rights as people. BibliographyReaction and Interaction: A Food Gathering People and European Settlement in Australia by A. Perhaps the most confusing and controversial of all is the government's stance on this all; the continued refusal to apologise for the assimilation policy on the government agenda until 1967, and the ambiguity in the way the government chooses to react to questions and accusations.
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