Friday, March 25, 2011
How the British ethnocentric view of the First Australians caused conflict between the two cultures
The British ethnocentric view of the First Australians caused conflict between the two cultures because the British believed that their culture and law was the right way and that the aboriginals need to be taught the right way. When the British first came to Australia, the aboriginals thought that the British were the devils and when the British first saw the aboriginal they wanted to kill them all because they were barbarous and savages. But luckily, Governor Phillip (british) and Bennelong (aboriginal), put aside their differences and began to learn the ways of each others culture. Although this did not end well for Bennelong, the aboriginals and the British began to understand each others cultures but this took a turn for the worse. The British began to think again that they were barbarous and tried to kill them all and later (when they stopped trying to kill the aboriginals) they began to worry about the half-caste (the half-aboriginals and the half-british). The british saw the half-caste children as an abomination and then intended to make them into slaves and then to breed them out until there is only the white DNA left. If the British had put aside their ethnocentric view on the aborigines then they would not have as much or any conflict with the aborigines.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
The Rabbits
The Rabbits by John Marsden and Shaun Tan shows some of the negative qualities of colonization. An example of one of these negative qualities is when the colonizers brought different food to the colonized. Because the people who were colonized have never taste food like this, some became ill. Another negative quality is that not all of the people who were being colonized liked the colonizers coming in and taking over their land and they will try to protest against the colonizers that could lead to a war. Colonizations are neither good or bad but all of them have had some negative qualities.
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