@opmania wrote:
If you remove white man from the equation
No ancestors or any current day aboriginal
Would have achieved anything as you put it.
They were the only civilization never to have
Kept livestock or plant crops.
There time spent before whites was waring with
Other tribes and eating or killing any that did not
Run away.
This they had been doing for the best part of
40, 000 so nothing much would have changed
In the last 200 odd
Who's to say that there was not a more peaceful
Peoples here before they came before recorded
History.
And they had their turn at raping and plundering
Just like the rest
What an extraordinarily white, arrogant and il-informed point of view.
The aboriginal people are the native inhabitants ofAustralia. They are a dark-skinned people belonging to the Australoid group more closely related to Africans than to Asians and Europeans. They are believed to be descendants of the first group of humans to migrate out of Africa about 60,000 years ago.
Being the first humans to arrive in Australia about 50,000 years ago; the Aborigines discovered Australia. They were the first human inhabitants of Australia.
http://panique.com.au/trishansoz/aborigine/aborigin.html
As far as I know, there is no evidence to show that their wars were any more frequent or bloody than ours, and much evidence to show they were in fact a lot less bloody - would you rather be despatched with a blow to the head or dieof radiation sickness or in a gas chamber with all your family and most of the rest of your tribe?
If their culture had kept them going for 50,00 years, isn't it a bit presumtuous to assume it needed to change? We are very proud of our sophisticated civilisation, but our technological advancements have brought us to the point where we are in genuine danger of exterminating ourselves.- and are our lives really any happier or more fulfilled than those of the pre colonial Aborigines? When it all boils down to it, the only advancements in Western civilisation that have really enhanced our life experience, have been advances in medicine (particularly pain control) and even these advancements are a mixed blessing since they are often used to prolong the lives of the terminally ill whose existence has become a burden that a they long to be rid of.
