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A 16 page overview of the underlying reasons for the discrimination
and injustices faced by Australia's aborigine population. These injustices permeate practically every aspect of aborigine life, aspects ranging
from the need to secure proper medical care to the need to pursue an education. From the European peoples first interaction with the aboriginals, to
their placement of a label on these peoples, to the contemporary interactions that occur today; there has been problems. Many of those problems relate to questions regarding the control of aborigine lands. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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16 pages (~225 words per page)
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a result of the sociopolitical structure of their country and their status in that structure. These peoples are known as aboriginals, a term which in itself has caused certain
problems for indigenous inhabitants of this country. The term "aboriginality" refers to the qualities which are a component of being a part of the aboriginal culture, a culture comprised
by those peoples who were present in Australia at the time of the continents first contact with European cultures. Aboriginality encompasses not only such facets of aboriginal culture as
race and language but also such facets as dress, housing, foods, and lifeways in general. "Aboriginality", however, is a term that has been defined not by the Aboriginal
peoples themselves but by those cultures who invaded Australian shores and ultimately came to dominate the land and the people. That culture, of course, is predominated by peoples of
English origin, a development which is attributable to the British invasion of Australia on 26 January 1788. From the European peoples first interaction with the aboriginals, to their placement
of a label on these peoples, to the contemporary interactions that occur today; there has been problems. Racism has been at the root
of these problems. Racism is, in fact, one of the primary shapers of contemporary Australian society. In the nineteenth century in particular the concept of racial inferiority was
purported by a number of disciplines. Anthropology, medicine, psychology, and sociology all became vehicles of racism as they proposed and supported theories which perpetuated disenfranchisement and segregation of the
aborigines from mainstream Australian society. Even the concept of evolution itself indirectly supported the predominant feeling that there was a hierarchical relationship between the races from the primitive to
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