Aboriginal Australian Studies and Research
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Table of ContentsTITLE..............................................................................................................................................1INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1DISCUSSION..................................................................................................................................1CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
TITLEThe key tile of the topic is Australian indigenous people still possessing the oldest cultureon the earth, how media perceive this culture and define to the public, are all characteristicswhich is defined by the media are valid characterisation of Aboriginal culture?INTRODUCTIONAboriginal people are the first, native, indigenous or autochthonous people, there are alsoknown as ethics group who are come down from and find with the original inhabitants of theparticular region or country. They have colonised, occupied and settled that area more recentlyfrom where they are living for many decades. They are known as Aboriginal when they followtheir old traditions and early cultured which is related to their own region. They not only followthese characteristics but they also follow the old language, dresses and religion. They aregenerally historical associated, with their own specific territory on which they are depended forthe resources and shelter. These people are found in every country and climate zone in the world.The world international Aboriginal people's day have been celebrated on 9th August of everyyear. Nowadays these people are having threat of their well being and sovereignty with that theyalso have threat of resources which they access and that are according to the culture dependency.By analysing these situations, several rights have been given to them so that they can maintaintheir well being and move towards their development. The rights which is given to them arebased on their identity, culture, employment, language, natural resources and education. Thetotal population of indigenous people in the world are from the 220 million to 350 million. Inthis 20th century, the term Aboriginal people have been used to describe as a regulatory categoryfor the indigenous law which is made by the national and international laws. This refers toculture distinct person which is affected by the colonization. They are form at non-dominantsectors of the society and are also determined to transmit, develop and preserve to the cominggeneration. Australia's Aboriginal people are the person who are members of Aboriginal race ofAustralia. It is made with the help of membership and it is done because they want to maintaintheir island of Tasmania.DISCUSSIONAccording to the view of Eller, (2016) Aboriginal Australia's is the Strait Island peoplewhich leave in Australia and the surrounding island prior to the British colonization. When thesepeople have arrived in the Australia's, it has become the topic for debate for the people of the1
country as well as for the researcher. There are lot of commonalities between the indigenousAboriginal Australians with that there are large number of diversity among the differentindigenous societies and communities of the Australia. Every colonies and societies are themixture of language, culture and customs. In the recent time these colonies are divided into localcolonies. When the European was settled, there have been more than 250 languages werespoken, and now there are 120 to 145 are still remained, from them 13 have not been included inendangered. These people generally speak English now with that some vocabulary and phases ofAboriginal Australian is also used by them. In the contradicting view of Fisher, (2016) Thepopulation of these people have been estimated by the researcher are from the 318000 to1000000. The separate Flag have been made for these people which is named as Torres StraitIslander Flag and which is had been considered among the Flag of Australia. These people arealso called as Australoid race, where they have large differences in culture, linguistic customsand social from the other people of Australia. The word Australoid have been identified in the16th century which is known as earliest of first known and indigenous people are people whohave been known the earliest on the earth. After that it have become the Latin word that isAboriginals. Aboriginals are the people who assess negative connotations in the particularcommunity,these people are generally regarded as offensive or insensitive. The Aboriginalpeople also includes Torres Strait Island people which have been accepted since 1980's. As per view of Goldfinch and Kennedy, (2017) These people include many regionalgroup which have different languages. The religion and language includes in the indigenouspeople of Australia are Murrawarri people, Koori, Ngunnawal. Goorie, Murrdi, Murri, Nyungar,yamatji, Wanhai, Nunga, Anangu, Yapa etc. These people have been colonised in the year 1788with the British. These all people collectively inhabiting the continent. The sole administrativeand legal creation for inclusion in this class was race which is according to their physicalcharacteristics. These larger group then sub divided into Anangu and this activity have beendone before the British arrival and at that time the population was 318000 to 750000 which isacross all over the continent. In the contradicting view of Kirkham and Moore, (2017) TorresStrait Islander have cultural history and heritage and that have been posses from the Aboriginalpeople's traditions. The Eastern part of Torres Strait Islander particularly have Papuan person ofNew Guinea who speaks papuan language. They have been considered as the Indigenous2
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