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@aps1080 wrote:
I know EXACTLY HOW I will react, especially if I am protecting what is mine
Or a threat to self or friends.
As Clint said, "you better get three coffins ready" ! LOL

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Wrong aps - he needed 4.

Someone up there mentioned the Aboriginal would not like to be called Australian - WRONG

 

My ex and my son are aboriginal and they equate themselves as Australian - they are indeed the first (and in reality only TRUE) Australians here.

 

The rest of us (immigrants aside) are all born of British stock obvioulsy.

2106

It was me, and my comment was a bit tongue in cheek, although I know some that it would apply to.

Good comeback.

Ok, here is a question.

Aboriginals are very quick to identify themselves as Aboriginals, flying the Aboriginal flag, Except when it is negative - ie crime, and sometimes object when they are identified as Aboriginal.

Secondly, Aboriginal first, Australian second is how I perceive some -fly Aboriginal flag over Aussie one.
Now I know that is a generalisation but i am sure you get my drift.

Look forward to your reply.

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@2106greencat wrote:

Someone up there mentioned the Aboriginal would not like to be called Australian - WRONG

 

My ex and my son are aboriginal and they equate themselves as Australian - they are indeed the first (and in reality only TRUE) Australians here.

 

The rest of us (immigrants aside) are all born of British stock obvioulsy.

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Good morning GC..

 

It seems we are all immigrants when it boils down to it.

 

 

New research in the journal Science presents a number of firsts for Aboriginal Australians.

The first genome analysis of an Aborigine reveals that these early Australians took part in the first human migration out of Africa. They were the first to arrive in Asia some 70,000 years ago, roaming the area at least 24,000 years before the ancestors of present-day Europeans and Asians. They were also the first to live in Australia, according to DNA results of a 90-year-old hair sample of a young man that link Aborigines to the first inhabitants of this part of the world about 50,000 years ago.

 

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@2106greencat wrote:

Someone up there mentioned the Aboriginal would not like to be called Australian - WRONG

 

My ex and my son are aboriginal and they equate themselves as Australian - they are indeed the first (and in reality only TRUE) Australians here.

 

The rest of us (immigrants aside) are all born of British stock obvioulsy.

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It was the resident racist. 

 

I doubt that anyone else here would make such a despicable statement.

Just curious. Not knowing your ex's full heritage I shall only refer to your son.

How can he be as you say a 'true australian' any more than any other Aussie citizen.

So they are 100% aboriginal, no white blood in them at all? To me they are the only true aboriginals

Bushie
That seems to be the way Aboriginals think as well.
They are / can be very racist and discriminatory towards anything but full bloods, at least with those I live or stay with.

Polka

You are doing it again, throwing the racist tag around.

Some Aboriginals burn the aussie flag, you call them australians ?

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@channys_mum wrote:

Just curious. Not knowing your ex's full heritage I shall only refer to your son.

How can he be as you say a 'true australian' any more than any other Aussie citizen.

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I never said he could channy, that was just my take on it.

 

When it all boils down to it, all non indiginous people are imports so can not possibly be considered the first Australian's, the aborigine was here first, so they are the FIRST

 

'my take on it is' -  unless you have the blood of the original (first) Australian people running through your veins how can you be a true Australian?? But of course, way back then it was not called AUstralia, so who knows?

 

All I know is if I went to live in China and had a child there, that would not make me, nor the child Chinese.

 

All a matter of perspective.

 

 

and to aps -

 

I am unsure why you are so concerned about the flags, and realise Freeman may have been the cause of your reasoning, but the Australian flag depicts the Union Jack and a few stars from the sky - the Aborignal flag depicts the earth, the sun and the blood of the people, I know which one would mean more to me if I were indiginous.