What has that got to do with Aboriginals? Im pretty sure they were the only ones here for just a couple of years before the rest of us arrived.Enrico_Misso wrote:I wonder if they will do this at the London Olympics?kp83 wrote:Can I ask you why you say that the traditional welcome is "stupid"?
Might be a bit time consuming by the time they pay homage to the Druids, Celts, Vikings, Romans, Normans, Germanics, Anglo-Saxons, French etc. etc.
White Aboriginals doing traditional welcome
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Anything purporting to be a traditional welcoming ceremony from anywhere in South-Eastern Australian is almost certain to come straight out of a contemporary person's imagination. And the people performing it will be largely white in their ancestry, uninitiated, brought up in White society and have learnt all they know about their own culture from out of dubious nineteenth century accounts written by Whites.
Educated modern Australians continue to lap all this nonsense up. Why? One word: guilt. But all of my family and friends tell me I'm a racist for even daring to question it. So I've given up.
Educated modern Australians continue to lap all this nonsense up. Why? One word: guilt. But all of my family and friends tell me I'm a racist for even daring to question it. So I've given up.
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who was there before them?plugger66 wrote:What has that got to do with Aboriginals? Im pretty sure they were the only ones here for just a couple of years before the rest of us arrived.Enrico_Misso wrote:I wonder if they will do this at the London Olympics?kp83 wrote:Can I ask you why you say that the traditional welcome is "stupid"?
Might be a bit time consuming by the time they pay homage to the Druids, Celts, Vikings, Romans, Normans, Germanics, Anglo-Saxons, French etc. etc.
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Spot on.meher baba wrote:Anything purporting to be a traditional welcoming ceremony from anywhere in South-Eastern Australian is almost certain to come straight out of a contemporary person's imagination. And the people performing it will be largely white in their ancestry, uninitiated, brought up in White society and have learnt all they know about their own culture from out of dubious nineteenth century accounts written by Whites.
Educated modern Australians continue to lap all this nonsense up. Why? One word: guilt. But all of my family and friends tell me I'm a racist for even daring to question it. So I've given up.
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Lets not delete this thread and its contents; it shows that racism is alive and prospering in Australian society.
Just a couple of things though.
Having being isolated from the rest of the world for 50,000 years, the aboriginal ""colour"" gene was very fragile, and easily diminished by European genes, which were much stronger as a result of being derived from lots of different associations.
There are a lot of pale aboriginals that have strong links with their roots and their culture.
The Welcome to Country can only be done by an Elder of the mob that are the guardians of the land in question. Not any old blackfella can do it, and to suggest that it can be so, shows a complete lack of understanding of Aboriginal culture.
To suggest that only those that pass the blackface test can perform this important ceremony, shows how irrepairably racist the original poster is.
Just a couple of things though.
Having being isolated from the rest of the world for 50,000 years, the aboriginal ""colour"" gene was very fragile, and easily diminished by European genes, which were much stronger as a result of being derived from lots of different associations.
There are a lot of pale aboriginals that have strong links with their roots and their culture.
The Welcome to Country can only be done by an Elder of the mob that are the guardians of the land in question. Not any old blackfella can do it, and to suggest that it can be so, shows a complete lack of understanding of Aboriginal culture.
To suggest that only those that pass the blackface test can perform this important ceremony, shows how irrepairably racist the original poster is.
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well put. Ignorance at it`s highest.GrumpyOne wrote:Lets not delete this thread and its contents; it shows that racism is alive and prospering in Australian society.
Just a couple of things though.
Having being isolated from the rest of the world for 50,000 years, the aboriginal ""colour"" gene was very fragile, and easily diminished by European genes, which were much stronger as a result of being derived from lots of different associations.
There are a lot of pale aboriginals that have strong links with their roots and their culture.
The Welcome to Country can only be done by an Elder of the mob that are the guardians of the land in question. Not any old blackfella can do it, and to suggest that it can be so, shows a complete lack of understanding of Aboriginal culture.
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To suggest that only those that pass the blackface test can perform this important ceremony, shows how irrepairably racist the original poster is.
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I'm with mehre barber on this.
The welcome is bit not necessary and surely tainted by white history.
You can all have your opinions on this but I stick by what I've said.
Thanks for the background GO re the colour issue, I'm sorry in not an expert on Aboriginal history Solar either, I must learn it again eh?
Must say the yellow red and black centre circle looked good, they can keep that for next year.
Ok so ban me, shoot me, send me to Christmas Island, deport me, but please record it on YouTube so my family can watch!
The welcome is bit not necessary and surely tainted by white history.
You can all have your opinions on this but I stick by what I've said.
Thanks for the background GO re the colour issue, I'm sorry in not an expert on Aboriginal history Solar either, I must learn it again eh?
Must say the yellow red and black centre circle looked good, they can keep that for next year.
Ok so ban me, shoot me, send me to Christmas Island, deport me, but please record it on YouTube so my family can watch!
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I agree that a person's colour is irrelevant. I've met whitefellas who have been initiated into northern and central Australian tribes and who are therefore perfectly entitled to participate in ceremonies.GrumpyOne wrote:Lets not delete this thread and its contents; it shows that racism is alive and prospering in Australian society.
Just a couple of things though.
Having being isolated from the rest of the world for 50,000 years, the aboriginal ""colour"" gene was very fragile, and easily diminished by European genes, which were much stronger as a result of being derived from lots of different associations.
There are a lot of pale aboriginals that have strong links with their roots and their culture.
The Welcome to Country can only be done by an Elder of the mob that are the guardians of the land in question. Not any old blackfella can do it, and to suggest that it can be so, shows a complete lack of understanding of Aboriginal culture.
To suggest that only those that pass the blackface test can perform this important ceremony, shows how irrepairably racist the original poster is.
My issue with your contemporary NSW, Vic, Tas or southern
Queenslander performing any sort of "ceremony" is that they will have
more or less made it up. It therefore really bears no more direct link to traditional Indigenous society and culture than would a bunch of Morris dancers.
So it's really just a bit of pretentious nonsense from some Indigenous wannabes. Us white folk are all too racked by guilt to call it what it is.
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Sorry..was the Forum a bit dull today so you thought you'd indulge in your passion for saying something controversial to stop it getting boring??
Mission accomplished..you got the attention you crave..for all the wrong reason of course IMO
Go back to 1955 and take Andrew Bolt with you
Mission accomplished..you got the attention you crave..for all the wrong reason of course IMO
Go back to 1955 and take Andrew Bolt with you
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No.saint66au wrote:Sorry..was the Forum a bit dull today so you thought you'd indulge in your passion for saying something controversial to stop it getting boring??
Mission accomplished..you got the attention you crave..for all the wrong reason of course IMO
Go back to 1955 and take Andrew Bolt with you
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yeah i agree.
And how can that Nicholas Winmar say he is aboriginal? he is a brown colour, not black....
Fair Dinkum
And how can that Nicholas Winmar say he is aboriginal? he is a brown colour, not black....
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Well said kpkp83 wrote:This can't be a serious post can it?
Can I ask you why you say that the traditional welcome is "stupid"?
I for one think it is only right to acknowledge a race of people who had no say in a bunch of convicts being let loose amongst their people, leading to the destruction of their way of life. Don't forget, it was the white man who introduced drugs and alcohol into their lives and now we mock and blame them for not being able to handle it.
Not to mention the atrocities that occured to the stolen generation - a group of people the majority of whom were born to a mother who had been raped by a white man.
Don't ever forget - you are the descendant of a boat person and they are the original inhabitants of this land.
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