What are you?

[i-need-a-martini]

I was just watching Hannah Gadsbys (brilliant!) show on the ABC on Australian Art and they brought up some interesting ideas about indigenous culture. It was particularly interesting given the debate on Q&A last night about Bolts "white aborigines" tirade.

So how many generations can pass before you shed your culture? 

I am a first generation Italian and my kids are second generation. But we all call ourselves Italian if asked what culture we are. I imagine my grand and great grand kids will also refer to their Italian culture. Not sure beyond that.

My husband embraces his dads Canadian culture and his mothers Englishness. Yet his mothers ancestors came out from England in the early 1900s. Can he still really claim that his culture is English?

How would you relate your culture if asked what your background is?

[izabsmiling]

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@chuk_77 wrote:

an article from the 1930's is hardly relevant in 2014

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The OP asks this 

So how many generations can pass before you shed your culture? 

Though I find the question and the idea of needing to shed ones Culture to become Australian unnecessary and not fitting when discussing Australia's culture

what  generation or year to you think approriate ?

[chuk_77]

ive answered the OP already

[cherry*135]

I guess the question in the opening post is one of a few that can only be answered by posters personal family info (there are no cut and paste answers to it in other words).

[cherry*135]

One of my rellies changed her surname legally. She added the French surname of our ancestors and hyphenated it with her married name. she embraces the French side.

[izabsmiling]

that's good..for a minute there I was thinking that you might have felt that indigenous Australians should only go back as far as sometime after the 1930's.

Re the article from the 1930's which is mentioned the creative spirits article on negative stereotypying ..the message as it appears to to me is that racism and ignorance has no place in Australian Culture though unfortunately echos from the past still exist in 2014

The list of negative stereotypes are listed..one about skin colour , welfare ,getting more, that Australian shouldn't be accountable for our Country's past etc etc are c&p'd .

in relation to the white australia mentioned in the OP 

this is another negative stereotype listed

• must fit the image of a dark-skinned, wide-nosed person (i.e. a ‘full-blood’),

[cherry*135]

What are YOU.? Is that the thread title?...or is it denigrate this thread with other issues?

[izabsmiling]

I'm happy for you to state what you see as not on topic ?

[chuk_77]

the OP is asking my personal veiw, on my own heritage at no time did she specifically ask personal thoughts on aborginal heritage

As for your first sentence? Thats comes across rather arguementative, insteade of assuming something and being wrong perhaps ask for clarification.

The OP had nothing to do with a newspaper article from the 30's end of!

[izabsmiling]

correction to #85 ..from the OP 

Q&A last night about Bolts "white aborigines" tirade.

not white Australia as I posted.

[izabsmiling]

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@am*3 wrote:
What are YOU.?

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why don't you tell me about myself and save me the time and the headache of trying to point out that you are incorrect