GordyL wrote on Jul 1
st, 2016 at 4:55pm:
I believe Indigenous Australian had just about the lowest social and technological evolution on the planet.
So, you're basically saying that you're a racist then, I take it, Gordy? Afterall, that is the justification of so much of the racism that racists use.
In reality, Indigenous Australians are as evolutionary as advanced as are all humans. Socially they are as advanced and technologically, before the arrival of the colonists, their solutions to the technical problems that faced them were as sophisticated as were any other group of humanity.
Quote:Calling the arrival of Europeans what you want but ONLY using the word 'invasion' (which many people want) is divisive. It was an invasion, a colonization, immigration.
It was many different things to many different people.
If the present peaceful immigration of various groups to Australia can be termed an "invasion" by some, then how would you characterise the use of military and force which accompanied the arrival of British colonists in 1788? I believe it was an invasion, Gordy. I have read colonial records of the frontier war, have you?
Quote:Lets face it tho, it was inevitable. It could have gone better for them if they were discovered by Captain Kirk and he stuck to the prime directive of not interfering with primitive species, but in that era, can you see any other course in history?
Yes. I can see the Indigenous peoples' claims on the land to be respected and accepted, just as were those of the Maoris in New Zealand next door, by the same colonial power, at approximately the same time, as they were in India, Africa and the Americas...
Quote:I agree that Aboriginals certainly got the shitt end of the stick and now it's us to up to help make it good, but lets drop the noble savage BS.
It is to a certain degree bullshit, I agree but not many modern anthropologists believe it, Gordy. It's primarily the dillentes who believe that what ever the colonists claimed was bullshit. I don't. I actually believe what the first colonists said, rather than what the later, land stealing ones claimed to justify their destruction of Indigenous culture and society. What about you? You state one thing and then immediately claim the reverse...