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This is an interesting and balanced perspective. I get what you're saying about settlers and not judging them. I think for me the issue lies in yhe current prevalence of their continued views toward aboriginal people. Every time I hear racism I feel so disheartened and my thought is always "haven't we done enough damage?". Its time to stop. The aboriginal culture has many wonderful and fascinating ways. We could learn a great deal about kinship, spirituality, community and environmental management if we would just stop with the continued attitude of superiority. Hats off to you for broaching this topic.
Agree! One of the most interesting things I've learnt about their culture was the purposeful abomination attitude to writing. This was so because the stories and guidance was shared based on merit of whomever was to receive it, so the culture as a whole purposely did not develop a system of writing. Instead a system of stories, symbols and imagery to be understood at many levels and so it was more secure. This is the same as the symbolic language of Western traditions too, it meant to be read at many levels. So for Aboriginal people, before knowledge could be passed down, people had to be assessed by someone who knew, writings could be potentially be shared by anyone and that would potentially be left with people not ready. It was irresponsible then to write because knowledge given to those not ready was considered a danger to their tradition.
That is fascinating. I did not know that the lack of written history was intentional in this way.
This is a really interesting perspective @alkhemst. We never really look back and reflect on what previous cultures might have thought was best and justified at the time. I certainly had no idea about the Aboriginal people being quite violent back then and how that played into the overall amount of violence that was taking place at that time. I think you make a good point also that it is easy for people to judge others and think "if only we'd done this" without thinking about the impacts that their current actions/behaviours are having, and consequently, how that would be judged. This was a great post. Thanks for writing it.
Yeah I didn't either, they're not really popular facts today. Seems to me that every culture is full of people who do wrong, so I don't know if it's culture or more so our general condition as humans that we have the possibility to do bad things. Great thing is we can choose not to, so I reckon that's more practical to focus on than debating the merits of one culture over another.
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STOPIronically I want to say good post, but there's not much good on the way we continue to tackle conflicts with embedded fight or flight resolution tactics. We're lacking people skills whereby we can work together to come to a mutual agreement. You see it everyday on the roads, people are just getting more and more sick of each other. Hopefully in my lifetime, we'll see more love and less war.
Totally and what ever happened to the real anti war protests? People look more worried about protesting against Australia Day than war that's been ramping up and ongoing especially since Sept 11 2001. At least that's seems to be more a an issue in the public sphere.
Very good article, well done!!
Thanks!
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