Investigation of the Aboriginal Question

Question: How do the contrasting value system of the indigenous aboriginal Australians and the
modern citizens delimit future plans for racial harmony and integration within Australia?

Recently, upon our visitation to Perth, Australia, my friends and I were introduced to one of the most
oppressed communities in the country. Consequently motivating me to investigate the following
question: How do the contrasting value system of the indigenous aboriginal Australians and the
modern citizens delimit future plans for racial harmony and integration within Australia? Fair
Observer even claims that “there is a criminal silence around Australia’s treatment of its indigenous
people.” This social group is called the Aboriginal people. To elaborate further, the indigenous
Aboriginal people are Australians that have descended from groups inhabiting Australia before British
colonization. It has long been considered that Australia is the only continent where the entire
indigenous population persisted through a single kind of adaptation—hunting and gathering—and
brought it into modern times.

While they are not merely "simple hunter-gatherers" wandering in search of daily food, they are also
people with a highly developed non-materialistic value that integrates individual and collectivist
ideologies into their social structure. Due to the neglection of their values in the Australian political
system, they have had to adopt their own self-governing system. The sheer capability to sustain this
type of authority for all these many years clearly depicts their intelligence and peer consideration.

According to traditional sources, they did not grow any crops and did not domesticate animals (apart
from the Dingos), so they were directly dependent on their environment for their basic needs.
However, some modern historians argue that Aboriginal people emulated agricultural practices that
were far too advanced to be categorized as hunting and gathering. Nonetheless, even though the
conventional interpretation of the Aboriginal people and their way of life was migratory, they had a
strong sense of attachment to sites in their home territory, where most of their hunting and gathering
was done.

The fact that the Aboriginal people have brought their archaic practices to modern times should raise
serious concern about their integration with the latter-day Australians. This injustice has been
recognized by many across the world, with some of them initiating conversations and further research
by meeting the Aboriginal people and understanding the issue from their point of view. A three-year
study conducted with more than 500 Aboriginal people ranging from long-grassers to university
students, anonymous respondents have given statements that are similar to the following: “it always
defaults to the expectation that the Aboriginal people must lose, give up their values for who they
are,”.

Some believe we get our power from knowing we are connected … knowing who our family is, what
our background is, the country we are from, how we're connected, what our totem and dreaming are
like. But there's this other culture that says no, that's not power. This sobering response from another
respondent of this study suggests that Australia truly has no plan of addressing their abandonment of a
large social group and their rights for having their opinions considered. Due to their lack of
connections with beings from the modern world, they are not able to effectively contact a notable
being who will listen to their distress and assuage the controversies they are facing on a daily basis.

Former head researcher, at Larrakia Nation Penny Taylor, talked about her hopes and expectations for
the non-indigenous people of Australia, “A very large piece of the puzzle is building the capacity in
non-Indigenous Australians to be able to engage in equal and respectful relationships and be able to
really interact properly with the other cultures around them, rather than focusing on building the
capacity of Aboriginal Australians to overcome their 'disadvantage’ ”. This ‘disadvantage’ that she
speaks of can be turned into a factor that Australia uses to its advantage. If they cleverly integrate
these unique qualities of their country in more of the country’s outgoing identification and cultural
upbringing, international societies may empathize and connect in a manner that had not to be done
before. Leading countries may be able to view Australia in a different light and form a different
response to Australia’s transition to a more ethical social standing point.

Respondents have noticed that many Australians who have big houses and cars falsely claim to be
happy and satisfied with their lives. Perhaps this is why they don’t have that strong of an incentive to
switch their values completely to those of these types of Australians. Combating this contrasting value
system of the indigenous aboriginal Australians and modern citizens is vital to ensuring the basic
human rights of these indigenous people while simultaneously uplifting the quality of life and
appreciation for this culture around the entire country with increased chances of around the world as
well.