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Wanderings in a desert : Comments
By Donna Jacobs Sife, published 9/6/2006The loss of innocence in the Red Centre of Australia.
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Now we are making progress. Something positive about the various other cultures. A recognition of the value of multi-cultural contributions to our existential questions. Great. No more Muslim bashing.
Donna, Rainer, JohnJ, Ash, Keith and any indigenous people who understand, or other folk who appreciate the cultural aspects of the indigenous peoples, sigh: MY BLEEDIN' HEART GOES OUT TO YOU ALL (Just a tic 'till I wipe the spittle off my screen for Bunny Wigglesworth. B.W. is Zorro's gay alter-ego).
And if all you indifferent folk think that Leigh and his N.S. comrades don't think the same about anything outside their bigoted culture - then think again.
S.P. goes on, as if to show that there is a gate hanging off him/her, and inadvertantly affirms Rainer's explanation of Eurocentric thinking and its inability to comprehend indigenous culture. Her materialist conception of cultural advancement (Marxist tendency evident there) and her inabilty to grasp the cultural significance of the beautiful aspects of indigenous culture, such as, the significant pre-invasion cultural wonder where 500 distinct groups were using 200 distinct languages suggests the abstract nature of indigenous achievements is beyond S.P., Z and Leigh's child-like concrete reasoning.
There is also the many religious variations that I think need preserving in the context of a modern society. Much like we "white fellas" still choose to cling to our various religious, academic, and cultural mores, myths, ideals, ideas and ceremonies.
The Australian cultural landscape wouldn't be Australian without indigenous cultures. (Sorry Rainer et el I know this isn't where you are coming from but I'm just a rancitasiocentric who loves multiculturalism.)
Boaz we live in a modern world where Christians in aeroplanes drop bombs on non combatants and kill and maim little children and innocent folk, so don't talk to Rancitas about barbaric practices until you sort your own Christian backyard.