Aborigines
It is known across the world that Australian people are laid-back, good-humored, affable peoples. However, despite their self-confidence and good humor, all Australians attempt to cover up a disconcerted history, full of maliciousness and brutality. When the first Europeans began coming over to Australia, they found a major obstacle preventing them from being able to colonize this fantastic country. This obstacle was the indigenous people of Australia, the Aborigines (Wikipedia).
It is thought that the Aborigines had lived in Australia for around 60,000 years, and it is widely acknowledged that these people have the oldest surviving continuous culture in the history of the world. In spite of that, within a hundred years, the near annihilation of the Aboriginal culture almost occurred. This event in itself, the attack of the Australian continent by the European settlers, forever changed the lifestyle, the culture, and even the fate of the Aborigines. Their entire lives, as they knew it, were in essence taken away and they were forced into a white, European world where the lifestyle change could not have been any more different from their own. Aborigines in Australia today are struggling to deal with a past in which they lost touch with their culture and they are now trying to regain some of that cultural identity ("Australian aborigines").
"As a result of forced assimilation, by the late 1880s most aborigines had joined white rural and urban communities. Aboriginal people became economically marginalized and were exposed to new diseases. The consequence was massive depopulation and extinction for some aboriginal tribes" (Siasoco).
Without a doubt, Aborigine culture is out of the ordinary of any other widely none culture. The Aborigines seem not to have pondered on time, or the changes that came along with it. For around fifty thousand years they had lived unscathed and on their own, now, within a time frame of thirty years, from the first...
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