NCS2202 Culture and Health Assignment

Running head: CULTURE AND HEALTH
CULTURE AND HEALTH
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During my study in nursing I was been very significant about my experience and
awareness about the aboriginal peoples. Also, my personal outlooks have been affected
significantly in the span of this semester. This unit played a pivotal role in enhancing my
cognition and awareness on indigenous population of Australia, and their historical
backgrounds. There also has been quite a change in my response towards this unit from how I
initially expected it, and have repeatedly triggered my emotions. Learning about the plight of
the children in these indigenous communities was really horrific and heart touching.
This is the place where adoption becomes possibly the most important factor, I
believe. In the past, the people from these indigenous or native communities were required to
give up their customs and culture in order to amalgamate with the western culture and way of
life, hoping that they would be able to acclimatize. In 1951 this was even adopted as an
official government strategy. I was truly shocked to learn about the fate of those youngsters
who were taken by social service workers. The children were made to live with white people
as slaves and often would face sexual assault, instead of being put in better families providing
emotional support. The families of these Aboriginal children would also be lied to with
misinformation about the jobs their children are involved in, not knowing that the kids would
end up being slaves to well to do Caucasian families. These made me realize that I have been
consistently fed wrong information about the history of the country I belong to (Cameron et
al., 2014).
The frameworks used for the analysis of the culture are known as knowing
framework. It has 4 components – knowing how, knowing what, knowing why and knowing
one. Indigenous Australian culture is both very rich and diverse, and the Australian
Aborigines, having a history of more than 50,000 years are one of the oldest and the most
established of the known tribes in existence. Their success of survival can be contributed to
their ability to evolve to adjust to changes over time. Their legacy is kept alive by the transfer

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of knowledge, insights, exhibitions and customs to the young members of the community.
The essential prosperity of the Aboriginal individuals is their territory, its condition that
managed by the general population and culture, loaded with profound prosperity (Smith et al.,
2015). Native individuals were seeker assembles who rummaged for uncultivated plant and
wild creatures. The customary eating regimen was high in starches, proteins and supplements
and low in fat and sugars. The present day Aboriginal eating routine are vigorously
westernized and have a tendency to be high in fat and sugar yet low in starch, fibre and fats
(Garcia et al., 2016).
Acquiring the change in the state of wellbeing of indigenous peoples was considered a
matter of reputation for the Australian government. Difference in the state of prosperity
between the local and non local population was barred for a long time. The United Nations
considered this as a source of strain on the Human Rights of these groups.
The speculation of communal elements assist to see that prosperity of people and
confirmation of awkwardness is done by different social parts, consistently. Additionally,
human right laws makes it necessary for each benefit to be interconnected and affecting the
scope of a particular law, and impacting the adaptability of few other laws. Therefore,
because of the agreed importance, a discussion of human rights can help in identifying the
potential consequences of prosperity in lieu of the undertakings and the course of action of
the governing bodies in the local communities (Ramraj et al., 2016).
Some applicable sources of disparity among the wellbeing of the indigenous and
native Australians includes the non participation and the lack of similar openness towards
improving the level of well being and the essential care, compared to the non- native
population of Australia.