Both Rachel Perkins and Stan Grant highlight the ongoing challenges faced by Indigenous Australians. They both explore issues like identity, discrimination, justice and the pursuit of equality. Racism and the Australian Dream by Stan Grant is a speech that was delivered in 2016 and details the struggles he and many other Aboriginal Australians have faced ever since colonisation. He also includes personal experiences throughout the speech. Redfern Now: Stand Up follows the story of an Aboriginal Australian boy named Joel who earns a scholarship to a prestigious school. A cultural issue ensues when he cannot sing the National Anthem at school every day and eventually gets expelled for it and this sparks cultural debate. Both texts have similarities …show more content…
Examples of Stan Grant’s persuasive language and acknowledgment of country are shown at the start of his speech with his introduction and thanking everyone for coming along to his speech. Examples of tone and acknowledgement to country are shown in this section with “Thank you so much for coming along this evening” and “I would also like to extend my respects to my Gadigal brothers and sisters” respectfully. The effect is that it acknowledges Stan Grant is related to the people he is talking about within his speech. This adds weight to the atrocities mentioned against his people later in the speech. An example from Redfern Now: Stand Up is the use of film techniques to convey the Australian dream. These are shown using characterisation and setting where Joel doesn’t feel like the national anthem belongs to him. He then searches up Australia on Google and comes up with an “idea” including meat pies, the Big Banana and Union Jacks. The setting shown here demonstrates a certain idea of the “Australian Dream” that Joel can’t relate to. This highlights the alienation between Aboriginal and European Australians. Both texts show examples of the Australian dream, indifference to different audiences and the perspective of First Nations people through language features and
The 2014 Walkley Award winning documentary, "Cronulla Riots: the day that shocked the nation" reveals to us a whole new side of Aussie culture. No more she’ll be right, no more fair go and sadly no more fair dinkum. The doco proved to all of us (or is it just me?) that the Australian identity isn’t really what we believe it to be. After viewing this documentary
In Australia the Aboriginals face discrimination daily. The film opened with four young Aboriginal girls singing on a makeshift stage facing their community. When the camera panned to show the smiling faces in the crowd it gave a feel of unity and love. Later it showed two sisters who were trying to hitch a ride into the city from the main road. Yet every vehicle passed them by; once they saw who they were, frustrated the older sister. Gale stated it was because they ‘were black’. When in the town playing their song on the stage in a bar, the youngest sister turned up and took
Good morning Mrs Dover and 8D. I have chosen to analyse the film clip “black fella, white fella” by the Warumpi band, and have determined that the song and associated images is partially successful in communicating aboriginal values, such as culture, land and family. The lyrics include the language features repetition, alliteration and rhetorical questions to deliver a message of reconciliation and equality. These features are also supported by visual imagery that is intended to support the ideas within the song.
All three authors recognize that difference constructs discrimination. The concept of othering (Hall 1997) and Anglo dominance presented by Moreton-Robinson (2015) help understand Judith Butler’s findings as to why oppression and exclusion cannot be reduced completely. It is same fear of the ‘other’ and white dominance in Australia that keep Australian institutions from reaching integration and equality—film being one these institutions. The filmmakers of The Sapphires attempt to tell the Aboriginal narrative. The scenes mentioned in the previous paragraphs, educate a diverse audience about Aboriginal discrimination in Australia in the 1960s. However, even though the filmmakers reveal some truths of Aboriginal discrimination, they do it in a way which the Aboriginal narrative is suppressed and Anglo dominance is maintained. “The Sapphires” plot is not centered on Aboriginal discrimination, rather a story of how four Aboriginal girls learn about love and friendship. Aboriginal discrimination in the 1960s forms only a small part of the journey to entertain American Troops in Vietnam. By presenting a musical comedy-drama film, the filmmakers sugar coat Australia’s dark past. The movie also ends on a good note. Cousin Kay who at some point rejected her Aboriginal roots, overcomes her prejudice and gets more in touch with the Aboriginal culture by partaking in an Aboriginal ceremony. By the end of the film the audience barely recalls the discrimination scenes and only remembers a happy ending. This is dangerous, as the film deceives its white Australian audience to believe that racial inequality in Australia is an issue of the past not the present. Therefore, promoting the idea that the Australia does not continue to privilege white people over Aboriginals
Charles Perkins was an Australian Aboriginal Activist who experienced firsthand the poor living standards and treatment of Aboriginals as he lived in aboriginal reserve until 10 then in a boy’s home (Anon., 2013). He was a well know national fi...
Throughout the unit of reading to write, as a class we have studied multiple quality texts. These ranging from essays like George Orwell's and short stories like ‘There will come soft rains’. One text I have chosen to deepen my knowledge in is Stan Grant’s speech about the ‘Australian Dream’. I feel it is a well written and spoken speech with a deep and powerful meaning behind. Throughout the speech he uses various language techniques like rhetorical questions and repetition to convey his ideas about the ‘Australian Dream’. Stan Grant sets a serious tone to get across his particular issue about actions towards Indigenous Australians from everyday Australians.
This quotation is taken from a Hollywood film, but has a tendency to ring true in legal disputes in Canada involving minority groups. Racism as a component in the Canadian societal context has prevented the realization of truth and justice throughout history. For instance, Donald Marshall Jr. endured a wrongful conviction as a result of racism in the criminal justice system. While this dilemma has proved to be most difficult for minority groups to overcome, critical race theory, as implemented by defence lawyers in R.D.S. v. The Queen, has allowed for the realization of racism as truth in Canadian society and provides a tool for minority groups in future legal battles.
Paul Keating’s “The Redfern Address” is a text that allows responders to explore and understand the possibilities of belonging. The text is specifically aimed at helping non-indigenous Australians explore and understand the possibility of not belonging. This is communicated through the constant use of personal pronouns, e.g. ‘us’ or ‘we’, to direct the entire text at non-indigenous Australians like Keating.
Stand Up, is an episode which is part of the popular ABC series Redfern Now. The show is created by Indigenous producers, writers and actors and intends to present how Indigenous Australians perceive contemporary Australia. It tells the story of Joel Shields who had just won a scholarship to one of the most prestigious schools in Australia and refuses to sing the national anthem on his first day. Facing the threat of expulsion, Joel is wavering between his father prompting him to stand up for his principles and the traditions of the school. The film is pitched towards a mature audience that is able to grapple with the issues at play and is of distinctive relevance to secondary students who would be able to relate to the narrative. Throughout
The idea that indigenous Australian communities are underprivileged and do not receive the same justice that the white community accrues is represented through Jay Swan and his interactions with the corrupt white police officers and the indigenous locals of the town. My empathetic response to the text as a whole was influenced directly by way the text constructs these ideas as well as my knowledge of the way indigenous Australians are represented in the mainstream media and the behaviour of the police force as an institution. These contextual factors and the way Sen has constructed ideas influenced me to empathise with the indigenous
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 Indigenous youth of Australia still face many challenges growing up in a world dominated by white Europeans. This essay will discuss the stereotypes and marginalisation that young Indigenous teenagers must face. After viewing Yolngu Boy and Black Chicks Talking, there will be examples from the two movies on the stereotypes, marginalisation, interdependent and the connection the characters of the movies have with the Aboriginal culture and the dominant white culture.
Throughout the world, in history and in present day, injustice has affected all of us. Whether it is racial, sexist, discriminatory, being left disadvantaged or worse, injustice surrounds us. Australia is a country that has been plagued by injustice since the day our British ancestors first set foot on Australian soil and claimed the land as theirs. We’ve killed off many of the Indigenous Aboriginal people, and also took Aboriginal children away from their families; this is known as the stolen generation. On the day Australia became a federation in 1901, the first Prime Minister of Australia, Edmund Barton, created the White Australia Policy. This only let people of white skin colour migrate to the country. Even though Australia was the first country to let women vote, women didn’t stand in Parliament until 1943 as many of us didn’t support female candidates, this was 40 years after they passed the law in Australian Parliament for women to stand in elections. After the events of World War Two, we have made an effort to make a stop to these issues here in Australia.
This paper’s purpose is to elaborate on how racism and the “American Dream” have helped shape United States history from 1492 and 1877. First, this paper intends to define racism and the “American Dream”; second explain the historical origins of these ideas and, third, describe how they helped shape the United States history from 1492 to 1877. In conclusion this paper will discuss how studying history helps us understand the present “state of beings.”
Racism Exposed in Cry, the Beloved Country. The purpose of Cry, the Beloved Country, is to awaken the population of South Africa to the racism that is slowly disintegrating the society and its people. The. Alan Paton designs his work to express his views on the injustices and racial hatred that plagues South Africa, in an attempt to bring about change and.