How does racism impact Aboriginal Australians today? How has a short story/video challenged your understanding of modern-day racism? Even though racism is usually perceived as a thing that ended a long time ago and does not apply to the modern society, but especially for people living in Australia, casual racism is something that occurs all of the time in Australia to aboriginal and indigenous people. The person who wrote the where ya from short story gives us a very good first person view of how casual racism impacts the life of an aboriginal boy. Today, aboriginals are also unfortunately facing casual racism. The author of the short story tells us how racism has impacted his childhood and adulthood. He tells us about how people in educational …show more content…
Australian society then was by and large white, Anglo-Saxon and racist. There is little Indigenous culture present in any curriculum across Australia. This helped perpetuate the myth that Aboriginal people were “dying out” when Australia was ‘colonised’ by the English and that the unfolding ‘white’ history of Australia was to be celebrated and enshrined in our national identity.” Because of this kids where not taught about aboriginal people and their history was just kind of ignored, so people didn’t know aboriginal history. The consequences of all of these actions led to people misunderstanding aboriginal and aboriginal history and thinking that it just doesn’t matter to know about all of those things. The quote tells us that racism is still very real and is quietly being distributed through the curriculum. From all of this evidence provided, we can safely conclude that racism still has a large impact on aboriginal Australians today and is still being ‘taught’ to kids …show more content…
Looking at multiple different sources is also very important to us in order to be able to accurately come to a conclusion and to prevent any bias in the conclusion. The introduction of multiple different sources and perspectives into the equation is very important because it will assist in a proper understanding of racism in Australia. Introduction of multiple sources will open your eyes to any incoming information and prevent you from sticking and believing in only one of the sources that we have only been exposed to first. As an example of the importance of using multiple different opinions in the “You cant ask that” video many of the people had different opinions on what they where ok with being caught, if we only relied on the opinion we could actually end up with a very incorrect opinion on the topic. These quotes assist in understanding the importance of using multiple opinions in writing and trying to understand the topic of modern racism today, as they provide examples of conflicting opinions on words and names that people considered racist and others didn’t. In conclusion, the use of multiple different opinions and different peoples opinions is incredibly beneficial to obtaining reliable information and reliable opinions. How do short stories use language techniques to communicate someone’s connection to people/place/culture? Sharlene Allsopp in the short story talks about
The contributions and achievements of Indigenous role models continue to make substantial impacts upon our history in areas such as the arts, sport, education, science and more increasingly; the world of Politics. Modern Australia is recognising and celebrating the achievements of Aboriginal people more than ever before, where the social landscape is changing (albeit slowly) as a result. The gradual change of peoples ingrained preconceptions, unfounded ideas and prejudiced notions are being challenged and ultimately transformed.
Over the years Australia has had many different problems with racism and racism affecting peoples’ lives. Many racial groups have been affected, most significantly the Aboriginals. The end of world war two in 1945 marked a huge change in types of racism. Australia went from the ‘superior’ white Australians dominating over immigrants and aboriginals. To a relatively multicultural and accepting society that is present today.
“The more you know, the less you need.” The attitude from White Australians towards Indigenous Australians was extremely unfriendly, and due to the fact that Aboriginal Australians had knowledge about things the European settlers believed did not matter they treated as if they were uneducated nuisances. The aboriginal people believed that the land they had lived on for generations belonged to them; however the White Australians came and took the land. This also means that the Europeans took what the Indigenous people valued most, and that was their land. Authors and directors convey different attitudes, values and beliefs in different ways, however it still has the same impact.
It is evident that by successfully manipulating rhetorical treatment of human aspirations and beliefs, powerful speeches are able to communicate confronting ideas that often challenge firmly-held views of an audience, thus demanding their engagement. It is through this process that Paul Keating in his Redfern Speech and Noel Pearson in his lecture, An Australian History For Us All, collectively present a compelling picture of the historical racism once endemic within Australia that many are still unable to come to terms with. The provocative nature of this perspective leads the two speakers to challenge their audience to finally accepting this confronting past, allowing progress for a nation-wide reconciliation.
The introduction week has given me the opportunity to highlight my gap in knowledge of Indigenous Australians and redefine the foundation of my understanding. After viewing the Sharkey and Weekly’s (2016) program, I realised how lack of knowledge could contribute to our narrow viewpoints. Perkin’s (2008) documentary gave me an insight of how the Indigenous history is impacting present and will continue to affect the future generation. This learning has highlighted that identifying the cultural imperatives and implementing cross-curriculum priorities are crucial for culturally responsive
One of the biggest issues effecting Indigenous Australians is inequality, this negative one-sided view has led to many young Aboriginals leading a life of social disparity.
Within Australia, beginning from approximately the time of European settlement to late 1969, the Aboriginal population of Australia experienced the detrimental effects of the stolen generation. A majority of the abducted children were ’half-castes’, in which they had one white parent and the other of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent. Following the government policies, the European police and government continued the assimilation of Aboriginal children into ‘white’ society. Oblivious to the destruction and devastation they were causing, the British had believed that they were doing this for “their [Aborigines] own good”, that they were “protecting” them as their families and culture were deemed unfit to raise them. These beliefs caused ...
... a socially defined group are treated differently, especially unfairly, because of their membership of the group (Kreiger, 1999). There are many facets to the issue of discrimination that affect the Indigenous Indigenous people, particularly the youth in the 21st century. Among these is the perception that Aboriginal’s are inherently lazy, alcoholic, dole (welfare) bludgers ( ). One factor that contributes to the portrayal of Indigneous people in this light and thus impacting on the relationship of the Indigenous community within mainstream society is the influence of the media (Stoneham, Goodman & Daube, 2014). The consistent representation of Indigneous people in such a negative view further perpetuates the racist stereotypes that were ______ which can have a major impact on the health and wellbeing of Indigneous Australians (Stoneham, Goodman and Daube).
Racism in Australia traces both previous incidents in the past and present racist attitudes which is the result of continuous defamation of indigenous people and the mass migration of people to Australia. In Australia the most prevalent people who in Australia’s past and still to this day show acts of racism on a large scale are the white settlers who after dispossessing the land from the aboriginals started a continuous wave of racism and hate. The main target of racial attacks in Australia are the Aboriginals and migrants who after suffering are still subjected to continuous racism and racists remarks. Racism in Australia is a large scale problem as it has numerous detrimental effects
presents itself in a more discrete way than racism in other countries. Racism in other countries goes further than just having a bias towards races. In other countries racism denies the people of certain races privileges that everyone should have access to, as well as creates a prejudice that leads to minority groups to be treated badly. An example of this can be found in the video “Understanding Systematic Oppression and Institutionalized Racism” by Kyol Blakeney from TedxYouth in Sydney. In his Ted talk Kyol Blakeney compares the chance of an African American in the U.S to end up in jail to an Aboriginal Australian to end up in jail and found that an Aboriginal Australian is 14 times more likely to end up in jail. This example shows that the institutionalized racism in Australia is so present that it affects minority groups like that aboriginal Australian which make up 2.7 % of the population on a huge scale. The fact that racism in the form of an institution which stems from racial bias affects minority groups not just in the U.S. but also cross-culturally in other
A fair education is currently not witnessed, and as a result targets Aboriginal students through the absence of choice and self determination in the subjects covered in schools. As seen in the film In My Blood It Runs, even as an Aboriginal specialised school, at the Yipirinya school the school only consisted of white teachers, alongside the history of their country is only taught through the perspective of a white person. Students are more engaged and likely to learn when topics of interest and relevance to them are covered in schools, consequently, resulting in better academic outcomes. This theme is vilified when they are learning the history of Australia through the book ‘The Australia Book’, which only describes the English version of Australia's history. Following that scene, a close up shot of Dujan captures the disengagement, and the aloof demeanour of Dujan.
Australians also are also learning to value the diversity that is present in their history. There is now broad public recognition of the special place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as Australia’s original inhabitants as opposed to the European settlers in the 17th century. While Indigenous Australians still lack both equality of opportunity and equality of outcome, serious a...
Australia is an amazing country with sandy beaches, great weather and a great cricket team. But if I could change one thing about Australia, it would be so there is no more racism. Roughly 28% of Australian people are born overseas, which makes a multicultural society very important in Australian Culture but this causes racism.
Racism and social disadvantage being the by-products of Australian colonisation have become reality for Aboriginal people from the early beginnings as well as being prevalent to this day. There exists a complex and strong association between racism and Aboriginal poor health, assisting in the undermining of the emotional and social wellbeing of this Indigenous group. Racism has an adverse and insidious effect upon the psychological and physical health of the Aboriginal people, as it gnaws away on the mental state of the individual, having detrimental consequence upon the standard of acceptable health in today 's modern society. The effects of this discrimination become the catalyst towards the undermining of one 's self esteem which leads to detrimental stress levels, self-negativity and having the potential
Racism is one of the world’s major issues today. Many people are not aware of how much racism still exists in our schools workforces, and anywhere else where social lives are occurring. It is obvious that racism is bad as it was many decades ago but it sure has not gone away. Racism very much exists and it is about time that people need to start thinking about the instigations and solutions to this matter. Many people believe that it depends on if a person was brought into the world as a racist or not but that is not the case at all. In fact, an individual cannot be born a racist but only learn to become one as they grow from child to adulthood. Basic causes, mainstream, institutions, government, anti racism groups, and even some hidden events in Canada’s past are a few of the possible instigations and solutions to racism.