Assignment Contemporary Indigenous Health and Wellbeing

Hello, Following is the assignment details Assessment task 1: Brief reflection on your own experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture Intent: This assessment enables an individual reflection on student's own knowledge and/or experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's culture. Type: Reflection Weight: 10% Task: You are required to write a short individual reflection on your own knowledge and/or experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. This does not require referencing - it is a brief personal reflection. Length: 300 words Criteria: Marking Criteria Comprehensive marking criteria for each assessment are available under Assessments. Following are some tips to complete the assignment: Introduction (what you are going to do) eg. this reflective piece will discuss about... 

Running Head: CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS HEALTH AND WELLBEING
CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS HEALTH AND WELLBEING
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Aboriginal population of the Australia is the indigenous individuals of the Australia,
which constitutes of around 3% of the total Australian populations. They pose a strong
connection with the culture, values, beliefs and culture of the country. After taking admission in
an Australian university, my perception regarding the aboriginal’s populations changed. This
reflection is based upon my experience with the aboriginal’s individual and learning that aid to
change my views and perception regarding the aboriginal populations.
I had not met any aboriginal population in life before arriving Australia and have only
heard about them from different individuals. Based on that, I eventually formed a negative image
of the Australian aboriginal populations. According to my perception, the aboriginals
populations were poor, uneducated, do not want to socialize, violent in nature and are drug
abusers. I started stereotyping themselves and try to maintain distance as much possible both
outside and inside the university campus.
However, now my perspective for the aboriginal population changed. Learning gained
from the course subject plays a major role in altering my view. I stopped judging them like
before. I understood that they are same as other population and stopped stereotyping them based
on other’s perception. I started reading about them to gain more knowledge about their culture,
beliefs and values. After studying about their tradition, I realized that they have a really
interesting background and culture. In the university also, I started making friendship with the
aboriginal populations.
From the above reflection, it can be concluded that Aboriginals and the indigenous
populations are the vulnerable population of the Australia. The perception of the individual, who

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do not know much about the aboriginal populations, is negative. However, after gathering
information about the indigenous population, my views changed.