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[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Talking about Australian Aborigines, I once saw an episode of 'Nothing To Declare' where a man was arguing with the Australian Customs that he was being victimised because he was a native aborigine.

Trouble was, and thing that I couldn't work out was that he was about 6' 6" tall, whiter than a sheet of A4 paper, typically European and Jewish.

How can someone who looks like this..



Claim to be a native aborigine and describe aborigines as "His People"?

It got me very puzzled

In Australia ,to be recognised as aborigine all that is required is that person identify as one AND be accepted by the aboriginal community.


WHY a person would WANT to identify in such a way unless they felt personally compelled is beyond me.By that I mean it's NOT to a person's advantage to be aborigine in Australia, although things have improved marginally over the last few decades.

Improvements include: counting them in the census, giving them the franchise,allowing them to legally drink alcohol, paying them the same as white guys on [some] stations (ranches).We also stopped taking away part-white children to be raised white.Oh, we also stopped killing aborigines for sport in the 1920's. We did however manage to kill all of them on the island state of Tasmania. I can remember the first aborigine person to attend university in this country;Charles Perkins.He graduated in 1965. He died in 200, age 60. (Aborigine life expectancy is still significantly lower than for other Australians.

I've provided a few links below for interest:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_Aborigines


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_N._Perkins


The Youtube clip is of the present Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd making formal apology to the aborigine people,in parliament.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3TZOGpG6cM