Are you aware that indigenous Australians had possibly the highest standard of living in the world at the time? All the food, resources and medicines they could need, and all round very healthy. That was all destroyed when they were moved from their land, children stolen, even massacred, so the knowledge no longer exists. Today being born indigenous means a huge disadvantage because of the ongoing impacts. Does that seem right to you? Would you still say they’re benefiting from being occupied?
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 week ago
Unlucky, I’ve had a nice celebration of our country today.
Australia was conquered by the British a long time ago. Nothing will ever change that, and the country is what it is today because of that event. No one alive today did the conquering and murdering. Everyone alive today is benefitting from it though, via not still living in caves and huts, having running water and electricity, living past the age of 30, etc.
observes_depths@aussie.zone 1 week ago
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 week ago
You’re joking, right? They didn’t live to 40 years old lol.
They were basically caveman equivalent in terms of advancement. They wouldn’t have 99.9% of what they have now if not for the British. Would they have even invented the wheel yet? Probably not, since they hadn’t in 60,000 years…….
Not a single person alive today would want to go back to living how the aboriginals did. If they did, they could just go and do it in the outback - nothings stopping them. They could go and have their average life expectancy of 30-35 years old, forage and hunt, and so on. Why don’t they?
observes_depths@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Why don’t they return to traditional living? Because the knowledge is gone and the land has been colonised. I’m not saying it was an easy life but the life expectancy was actually much better before colonisation, much better than 40 and certainly better than Europe’s poor at the time.
You also can’t judge a culture for not inventing the wheel. It’s like saying Europeans are inferior because they hadn’t invented the boomerang or water tree. Europeans didn’t need those things just as Aboriginals didn’t need to build roads and haul cargo up and down them every day.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 week ago
No one is blaming the people alive, but Australia Day only became officially the 26th in 1994.
It is within many of our lifetimes and we can change the date to celebrate it on a day that doesn’t coincide with the worst tragedy in our nations history.
Also your racism is noted.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 week ago
You say worst tragedy, I say the start of our country as it is today. Wars happen, countries get colonized - accept it and move on.
Oh no, not the meaningless racism cry……