There are cultures & then there are cultures ! The Origins of the Term "Culture" 2The word 'culture' comes from the Latin cultus, which means 'care', and from the French colere which means 'to till' as in 'till the ground'. There are many terms that stem from the word culture.

Steele,

The ancestors of all of us came out of Africa at different times. The ancestors of Aboriginal people here must have crossed from Africa along the Arabian and South Asian coasts, and down the Malay Peninsula, through what is now Indonesia, in order to get here, evolving all along the way according to changing circumstances. Logically, those ancestors must have passed along that way, over ten thousand years and more, before they reached Australia, and would have taken another x thousand years to spread across Australia.

So logically, if anything, many other societies have longer cultural pedigrees than Aboriginal people here. Especially African people. Logically on that criterion, African people have by far the oldest cultures in the world. Clearly, those cultures would have evolved and changed with climate and environmental changes, and with the human innovations that inevitably would have been devised and disseminated. All cultures have changed enormously in the past hundred thousand years, African, Aboriginal Australian, Chinese, Indian, Native American, European, etc.

Is that what you mean ?

Joe

it's futile to try to make something out of something that is not there !
The inevitable result is disharmony & unnecessary grief !
Some people just need more than 250 years to see that.

Well. I liked God save the Queen. Firstly because I'm a Christian and it has the word "God" in it. And secondly, because I'm a royalist, as most Australians were when asked to decide on a republic.

What idiot changed all that against the majority opinion?

As far as I'm concerned the current national anthem has no credibility at all, and should be scrapped as a space saver for the return of God save the Queen.

Dan

Dear Loudmouth,

Nope.

I don't give a damn if a few over paid footballers don't want to sing the song.

However I will give a damn if these over paid malcontents are picked to play for the country they disrespect