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Can Australia afford not to be reconciled? : Comments
By Patrick Dodson, published 3/12/2010Patrick Dodson's reflections on the way forward for indigenous Australians
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We need to work together in the present for the future. Like Archie Roach says we've been apart for too long. Patrick Dodson is right in saying we can't leave it to governments. Reconciliation needs to take place at community and individual levels too, and for me that means getting informed.
When someone starts a post saying they know little about Aboriginal culture then passes a negative judgement I think they have a closed mind. That post gave me a Monty Python type image of an African attempting to explain local culture to me while John Cleese bellows "Get on with it, it's all the same, isn't it".
The man who has been kind enough to teach me how to catch and prepare seafood the way it has traditionally been done here for thousands of years would be surprised to know that this knowledge is a "manufactured" product. And yes what I'm learning is very relevant to 21st century.