From the beginning when we were first introduced to Dee, we find that she has changed her name to Wangero saying that Dee is “dead” because she didn’t think her name, Dicie, had any cultural significance and so she choice a name she felt suited her more. She says she couldn’t bear being named after people who oppress her. She has no connection or respect with her family. This is sad because she doesn’t like who she once was. Although she has learned a lot from her schooling and has a better knowledge than her mom & sister, I feel she possesses this know-it-all attitude about what heritage really is.
We, the imprisoned asylum seekers of Australia, respectfully appeal to the people of the world to hear our story, understand our plight and emanate to our assistance. We left our homes because we had no choice but to flee from brutal, dictatorial regimes and deprived human rights. We believed we would receive a fair hearing in Australia, but our pleas of asylum have been unjustly refused. We have been detained in detention for a very long time, many of us for more than three years and our situations show no sign of changing. The only solution we are offered by the Australian government is to return to the persecution we once fled.
The white Australians became extremely vicious and began to throw food at us. Finally after hours of abuse Aboriginal children were allowed in the pools and the ban of Aboriginal children not being able to swim was then removed. I believe the freedom ride was a good act as it bringing awareness to the general public about how the aboriginal’s are being treated in rural areas. I hope racist people understand the living conditions of the aboriginals and the challenges they face in their day to day lives and I hope they change their views. Hopefully in the near future we will stop the white Australia policy because at the end of the day all aboriginals are all human just like us and deserve to be treated the same as every other Australian.
Australian Citizenship Fatima Ali, 19 March, 2012 Allison Holland’s reading discusses Australia’s history mainly from federation onwards, and the events that shaped the definition of Australian citizenship. Holland argues that citizenship has been ill-defined and in the past used to exclude others, namely Indigenous Australian’s, women and non Anglo-Celtic people. Although they were regarded as British subjects, Aboriginals did not obtain Australian citizenship after federation in 1901. They could not obtain any benefits from the government, had no voting rights and were not counted in the national census, thus excluding them as part of the population. It wasn’t unlit 1948 that Aboriginals were awarded citizenship, however did not gain
If children remain uneducated or unfocused, it’s the country which paysthe price of that ignorance and lack of education among the coming generation. The reason that Marjane Satrapi was rebellious was because she thought that the cultural revolution was ruining the education system of her country. There are many incidents in the book which direct us towards this conclusion that Marjane blamed the cultural revolution for the downfall of the education system of her country. The first incident that comes to my mind is from the first chapter “The Veil” (3). The author says, “We didn’t really like to wear the veil, especially since we didn’t understand why we had to” (3).
Aboriginals Divergent Value System- • Aboriginals are so different, • Land, can never own the land • Aboriginal’s don't believe u can own the land • That's why they are free roaming like gypsy’s • All the land the used to roam in were now taken over • Food supply is now gone • Cannot get along because value system is tot different • Have to use all the parts of an animal never wasted or thrown away • Don't stay in one location because their spirit will die • Don't stay in one spot the whole time • Need to free their spirit • Decide that they’re going to send them to reservations • Said they’re going to give them more room to expand • Reservations don't work • Different life system, values • Cant get along Indian
Our animals are being captured, caged and confined on vessels, packed in hundreds, if not thousands as they travel for weeks across the seas, often deprived of food and water. Sounds familiar? Well it certainly wasn’t much different from when Africans were brought into America as cheap slaves. In front of the government and all my parliamentary colleagues here today, I would like to say that we, as the government, are failing to ensure the welfare of animals being exported from Australia as sheep and cattle continue to suffer inhumane treatment under the government's live export supply chain assurance system. This system is flawed as it was never designed to ensure animal welfare.
Other policies attempted to ‘breed-out’ Indigenous Australians by pairing an Indiginous individual with a white partner. These ‘half-castes’ where again viewed as inferior and often removed from government reserves and discouraged from interacting with Indigenous people, including their parents, in an attempt to remove the Indigenous culture from the general populace. These policies have created an enormous effect on the Indiginous experience of health. It has led to the loss of culture and identity to an entire generation of Indigenous people and therefore a severe lack of understanding of health amongst those affected. Further, many Indiginous Australians today still have deep seeded mistrust of Western medicine because of these historical factors.
The Australian Aborigines have what is called the cross-cousin marriage rule; this is the marriage of the children of opposite–sex siblings, such as the father's sister or the mother's brother (Nowak & Laird 2010). This is a marriage that I think is strange, but not completely unheard of, although it is frowned upon in my society. In my society a marriage is between two people of no blood relation so that the family tree branches out and not in a circle. This type of kinship would not affect my behaviors because I do not believe in this type of marriage. The next example of the Australian Aborigines kinship system is the way they accept or adopt a non-Aboriginal into the group.
Although I have probably been raised with more of a negative reinforcement, I tend to use positive reinforcement. Another example is, my sister doesn’t like to go to school so she skips a lot…well to get her to go and get excited about it, whenever she does go I fist pump her. She smiles really big and says thanks. This week she has not missed one day. I think the best example of positive reinforcement that I have used was when I was trying to get my little cousin to grow up and stop acting like a baby.