Aboriginal And Torres Strait Assignment

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Introduction
This essay aims to critically examine the prime differences among the Aboriginal and
Torres Strait islander worldviews as well as the western worldviews. The thesis statement of this
essay argues over the differences that have resulted in great frustration among the first nation
people. Differences of the worldviews contributed to the ongoing dispossession for the first
nation people has also been discussed within the essay.
Discussion
Indigenous understanding and Western science are two separate approaches for
looking to the world. By observing individual components, Western science seeks to explain the
natural environment. Indigenous knowledge, attempts to understand the world more holistically
by looking at the connections between all the components. Indigenous information may
complement the structure of West science because of these differences and by comparison
(Stocker, Collard & Rooney, 2016). The origin of the difference among world views is that they
are generally in conflict with approaches to research, information and connectivity. Indigenous
societies depend on an important awareness of the whole that came out of the millennium.
Current Western views tend to concentrate more on science and on compartmentalized
information and then on understanding the broader related picture (Dudgeon & Walker, 2015).
The differences between the aboriginal and western worldviews can be summarized as below.
Indigenous worldview VS Western worldviews
The society is based on spiritual orientation.
The system are based over the spiritual world
and belief
The society is sceptical and scientific. The
system is based on the requirement of proof
as the basis of the belief.

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There lies several truths where the truths are
dependent over the individual experiences
There lies one and only truth, based over the
science or the western law style.
The land of the indigenous are considered to
be sacred which are usually given by the
creator
The western world consider land as the
resources that needs to be available for the
extraction and the development towards the
human benefits.
Aboriginal community people consider time
to be non linear and cyclical in nature. The
time is generally measured within cyclical
events (Joshanloo & Weijers, 2014). The
seasons are furthermore central towards the
concept of cyclic.
Time in the western world is linearly
structured as well as future oriented. The
frameworks of the years, months and the days
reinforces the linear structure.
The aboriginal people consider human to be
not the most important in the world.
The western world consider human being to
be the most important in the entire world.
According to the perspectives of the
aboriginal community people, the amassing of
wealth is essential for the overall good and
the benefit of the community
According to the perspectives of the western
world, the amassing of wealth is only
essential for personal gain
The relations between the indigenous and the West have contributed to the decimation of
indigenous society, starting with the British military invasion and continuing the American
missionary intrusion into indigenous land. There are implications that persist in today's
Aboriginal people's lack of sense of direction and uncertainty (Gaudry & Lorenz,

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2018). Indigenous community people’s recent history is furthermore characterized by the
disruption of the traumatic culture which is caused by the colonial interference. It is to note that
the differences in the worldview among the indigenous population and the western worldviews
have caused towards much of frustration for these first nation people. This is because, apart from
humiliation and discrimination faced by these people, the aboriginal and Torres Strait islander
often are the victims of mockery regarding their traditional thoughts which are often termed as
backdated views in society (Keane, Khupe & Muza, 2016). The current decades contribute
towards greater level of frustration among these community people since many individuals from
the western world initiate in invading and disrupting their living and way of life by forceful
participation by interrogation, questions, researches in the name of human rights and more.
Through Europe's colonized period and now continuing in global terms, the crossroads
between the worldviews of the Euro-American world and the indigenous peoples have not only
created a conflict, but have done major catastrophic economic, psychological, political and
physical harm to the lives of the community people. Many social, cultural, economic and
political systems and experiences of indigenous people have been undermined and substituted by
the conquest of institutions and cultures (Głaz, 2017). Most of the time the first nation people are
being forced for adopting the western worldview. In cases in which a world view of a population
is disrupted, altered or enforced, especially when done quickly or violently, the indigenous
population not only suffers from cultural disturbance, but also from a sense of cultural
dislocation and trauma (Merchant, 2013). Researchers noted that an abundance of civilizational
doses is likely to have a devastating impact on the condition of the indigenous people under the
Western World Policy. Since the Western colonialism indigenous culture beliefs have long been
ignored, stereotyped and demonized (Joshanloo, 2014). Due to this, majority of the worldviews

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of the indigenous people have majorly been altered, skewed or obligated by the view of the
dominant culture, specifically the worldview of the modern western world that has been majorly
influenced by the technology and the modern sciences as well as the concept and the democracy
practices together with the instances of globalization.
Conclusion
The long established traditional indigenous values has been substituted with western or
international values after the colonial contact. The interaction among the aboriginal and the
western worldviews that began form the conquest and invasion of the British military resulted
towards the decimation of the traditional aboriginal culture. It is to note that the consequences
are still being felt today regarding the lack of the respect, acknowledgement and the confusion of
the sense of direction towards the worldviews among the first nation peoples. The differences
among the worldviews has majorly contributed to the violation of the rights as well as the
decimation of the cultural and traditional values, thus resulting in dispossession for the first
nations people.

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