Hi Lexi,

Thank you, dear. I always get a buzz out of yours too, there is so much goodness in your contributions.

Love,

Joe

It is clear that most urban Aboriginal people are different from those in homelands. But even in the homelands, modern way of life is present. Probably nobody, or only very few, want to live in the bush without houses, cars, TV, mobile phone, Pop music (along with traditional music) or water from the tap. But that is not what actually makes identity. That is rather made by oral and written literature, language, style of Pop and traditional music, food, knowledge about the own history or dances...

Also in metropolitan areas, students ought to have the choice to learn again their anchestors´ language. The bits and bytes what has still been transmitted very probably causes that some students want to learn the full range of the traditional culture. Why shouldn´t Australians students learn about pre-colonial history? Why should more elderly Aboriginal people pass on to young people their knowledge? It is then the choise of young people themselves if they want to get into it more intensively or not. As is the title of the article mentioned in the title, it is of course no use rejecting the today´s English-based mainstream world, but it is not necessary to forget everything else.

If immigrants as well as Aboriginal people know their own languages and about their cultures, it will be easy to go to live to a homeland or in the case of immigrants´ communities to go back to the country of the anchestors if they feel the strong wish to live in a majorial setting.