Yes, Divine Ms N, more than 80 % of Aboriginal people are now inter-marrying - which means that around 2 % of the non-Aboriginal population are being pulled out of the non-Aboriginal marriage pool. The children of an Aboriginal parent, male or female, tend to be considered by society (perhaps even by you, Ms Divine N) not to be 'fully' non-Aboriginal, and tend also to know their Aboriginal relations far better.

Currently, about 4 % of all primary school children in Australia are Indigenous - in ten or twenty years, when they marry, they will be sucking 3.5 % of the non-Indigenous population out of the marriage pool. And with the magic of inter-marriage on the one hand and social definitions of Indigeneity on the other, 7 % of that generation's children will be Indigenous. Twenty years on .....

But don't worry, Ms Divine N, you don't have to marry an Indigenous person if you don't want to. But you'll never know what you are missing ;)

Joe

Loudmouth:>> SonofGloin, Where is Gloin ? It sounds Irish :)<<

Joe the name is from a Tolkien character, who introduces himself as " Gimli, son of Gloin.

Joe during the westerrn cultural revolution of the sixties the "hippie" values of peace and love certainly influenced and supported humanitarian ideals in song and action.


Blue Mink ......Melting Pot

"Take a pinch of white man
Wrap him up in black skin
Add a touch of blue blood
And a little bitty bit of red Indian boy
Oh like a Curly Latin kinkies
Oh Lordy, mixed with yellow Chinkees, yeah
You know you lump it all together
And you got a recipe for a get along scene
Oh what a beautiful dream
If it could only come true, you know, you know

What we need is a great big melting pot
Big enough enough enough to take
The world and all its got And keep it stirring for a hundred years or more
And turn out coffee coloured people by the score."

Gotta love those hippies

Gimli,

Hot Chocolate, yeah ! Right on ! Won't our grandkids and great-grandkids be beautiful ?

Joe

Heh - when I was a young hippie, I loved that 'Blue Mink' song.

As it happens, now that I'm an old fogey with vestigial hippie tendencies, I have a couple of kids with Chinese/Anglo ancestry, a stepdaughter with Gambian/Anglo ancestry, and grandkids with Gambian, Anglo and Aboriginal ancestry.

I look forward to the day when pretty well everybody's 'coffee coloured' :)

CJ, I have five sisters older than me. So I was always at home to see the new boyfriends roll in and roll out. They came in all shades and nationalities, but most were Anglo Aussie.

The old man never commented about any of them, as long as they respected his girls he respected them. One of my sisters married a yank (her second marriage) and they went to stay with the folks when they came back to oz while they looked to purchase somewhere to live.

On the day that the family got together to meet the new groom, I my brother and the old man were in his garage chatting and he said "will you look at what she has brought home this time". My brother and I looked at each other and said "he seems like a good bloke", to which the old man responded "a bloody septic for god’s sake, a septic. Nothing more was added. I never knew he did not like yanks but my mum said later he could not stand them more than one at a time.