Quickly saw a segment on 60minutes regarding how the Balinese are producing FAKE Aboriginal 'souvenirs' from Digeridoos to Boomerangs.
All fake, machine made and under-cutting authentic Aboriginal items.
Head of Australian Standards for Labelling says that they are Legal, but unfair. The Aust Standards are reviewing.

80% of Aboriginal 'items' are FAKE and non-authentic.

As long as its not 'white' people making them - its ok.

cods wrote on Jan 6^th, 2019 at 10:16pm:


True. But surely the Aboriginal 'authentic' stuff can be successful regarding something like Rolls Royces over Great Wall utes?
I mean - if people want the 'authentic' Rolls Royce stuff, then $500 for an item is the go.
If people just want a $5 item - then the fake, machine made, Balinese manufactured 'crap' is there for the taking.

I mean - do the Aboriginals think that they can have 'complete' and utter control on their world? I mean - they don't even provide for the shipping, distribution and more to get their stuff out into the 'market'.

I know its sentimentally sad. But I think the Aboriginals need to just up their own game and sell their wares as a more 'prestigious' quality over the cheap fake Balinese 'quantity'. I mean - do they really want to lower their own standards for 'mass production'?

Australian made Violins are the best in the world. The Company that makes them are a 'quality' over quantity and its a huge success because of that. As are all the 'quality' based Australian business's over the 'quantity' based ones.

I wonder if anyone was ever down on Albert Namatjira for cultural appropriation.

Oh, well - when it's a consumer economy and nothing is sacred.......... anything goes on the global economy market.... we should privatise the Australian War Memorial and let private enterprise run it more efficiently  ... ahhhhhh... ha, ha, ha ,ha, ha, ha, ha .....

The Australian Kaffirs long ago sold their souls for thirty pieces of silverside.... why should they be concerned if Indos can make a dollar out of their............................ 'culture'?

You'll get there one day, Grasshoppers..... oh...... and ltyc... but he needs a few centuries to catch up with real people:-



BTW - the Cherokees were an Eastern nation forced to follow The Trail of Tears... they did not ride horse until they met with, in the Indian Nations, various members of other tribes, and many such eventually mingled with the Sioux (La Kota - The People) and became part of the Plains Indians culture..

I am, according to my mother, the Indian in the family... far western Lakota near the Rockies.... and I once played Chief Joseph of that tribal group, which may have included some Cherokee....

Explains my beautiful olive skin and my attitudes to life...

Amadd wrote on Jan 6^th, 2019 at 11:17pm:



I seem to remember they [ aboriginals] accused other pointillism artists  of stealing their art form....

however I do see the difference in hand made and machine made.

Grappler is having another fantasy about being an American Indian.

Grappler has forsaken his British 'roots'.

Closet poms and poms have been exploiting and cheating Aboriginals over their art since 1788.

The most interesting Aboriginal art is less than 50 years old and is an indigenous western fusion, so claiming some sacred birthright being stolen is total BS.

I think you meant to direct that image to Aussie.

He's the expert on everything Indian

The Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that the “two-finger test”, which involves a doctor inserting fingers into the vagina to determine if the victim is sexually active, violated the right to privacy.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-sexcrimes-justice/indian-rape-survivors-still-subjected-to-intrusive-illegal-tests-idUSKBN1EZ0PX