Reflection on the Aboriginal Culture in Australia

Running Head: REFLECTION ON THE ABORIGINAL CULTURE IN AUSTRALIA
REFLECTION ON THE ABORIGINAL CULTURE IN AUSTRALIA
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REFLECTION ON THE ABORIGINAL CULTURE IN AUSTRALIA
As an Australian, I always boast over the beauty of the distinctiveness of Australian culture
which can be attributed to the existence of aboriginal community in Australia. The diversity latent in their
life-style and culture always makes visitors all around the world curious about Australia. Aboriginal
culture in Australia is the oldest culture that is able to survive and contribute to the cultural diversity of
Australia so far. Recently, due to the use of thermo-luminescence along with other modern techniques to
delve deep into the history and point out the time of inception of the aboriginals; it has been revealed that,
the aboriginals are present in Australia, even in 40, 000 years back. This evokes within me the thirst to
know more about such an ancient culture. This boosted me to find out some amazing facts related to the
cultural values of Australian aboriginals and their influence on Australian culture as well s society.
Driven by my urge to discover different dimensions and impacts of aboriginal culture and values;
I conducted an in depth study of Aboriginal culture. This disclosed the fact that aboriginal culture is
dependent on several practices and ceremonies which are based on the religious worldviews that can be
attributed to the ‘Dreamtime’ beliefs of Australian Aboriginals. The term ‘Dreamtime’, suggested by
anthropologists to signify the religious as well as cultural worldview held by Aboriginals in Australia.
Moreover, the tribes of the aboriginal community exhibit a wide variety of individual cultures. Another
factor which I find attractive about aboriginal culture is their ‘oneness with the nature’
(Hmcs.scu.edu.au 2019). The aboriginal culture suggests that there is a spiritual connection between the
people of the community and the nature that surrounds them. When I studied the beliefs and values in
aboriginal culture emphasize the impacts of nature and landscape in human life, which is again
comparable to the beliefs as well as values depicted in Bible. The similarity reflects in the beliefs of the
aboriginal culture that each of the elements of the nature, for example, rocks, rivers, canyons, waterfalls,
beaches, islands, stars, sun, moon; along with those who are surrounded by nature; carry mysterious
stories behind their creation. Aboriginal culture also indicates that all such mysterious stories are
interconnected and capable of influencing human lives on earth (Culturalsurvival.org 2019).