Met a lot of anthropologists have you Poirot?

Known some of the people they have fantasized about too I should imagine?

If you are naive enough to believe the garbage most of the more recent members of the "discipline" you are living in a fools paradise.

"Come live with me some time. Live my life and I'll show you."
Foxy,
I do & if only I could get the same privileges, alas, I have to work & pay for everything.

Dear SteeleRedux,

Thank You for your kind words and your comments.

I wish that I could write about some personal
experience with our First Nation people - but
like many Australians - I have none to speak of.
All I can do is try to educate myself on these
issues. Do the research and try to learn - and
hopefully with that understanding will follow.

From what I am reading - I gather that much has
changed over the decades, but much also remains the
same. I am concerned about the health of our native
people. Their access to hospitals and doctors in
remote areas. The following link may be of interest:

http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/health/hospitals-doctors-health-aboriginal-people

Paul, well it's nice that we agree on some things.
Steele,
You've misread my posts but no matter.
What I would say to you is that I definitely don't want to be treated the way Aboriginal men are treated by the state and it's institutions, I can't believe that anyone of any race would be satisfied with the dubious "privileges" doled out to Aboriginals much less be jealous of them.
The way ethnic Whites view Aboriginals is not important but the way the Anglo elites view both groups is, the kick gets harder as it goes down the line, the further the living standards of the ethnic Whites slip the less likely it is that "closing the gap" will be effective.
Since the turn of the 19th century ethnic Whites and Aboriginals have lived under the same system in the same spaces ruled by the same Anglo elites,like it or not our futures, like our past are bound together. The sooner my co ethnics accept the fact that they are never going to be beneficiaries of "Skin Privilege", that in the eyes of many in the elite castes we are lesser people even than Aboriginals the better things will be for everyone.
Until Whites start thinking and acting like a distinctive ethnic community living among many others under a foreign ruling caste and trying to arrest the fall in our own living standards conditions will continue to stagnate for the first nations.
If things are bad or wrong in the world you can only rely on Whites to fix them, take us out of the fight and it's curtains for civilisation on this continent.

take us out of the fight and it's curtains for civilisation on this continent.
JoM,
Sadly, far,far too many will not see this undeniable fact, a fact so in the face of everyone that it is just about invisible. I live that live & I don't blame the indigeous nor the Whites in general, I blame the asexual leftist do-gooder brigade which syphons most of the funding to the indigenous. The distgusting practice is then blamed on all who are white & not academic.

On August 1, 1944, the Polish nation commemorated the
fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising in which
200,000 Poles were killed by German Nazis and 500,000
more were transported to concentration camps.

During this commemoration, German President Roman Herzog
made an extraordinary apology to the Polish people.

"Today, I bow down before the fighters of the Warsaw
Uprising as before all Polish victims of the war," he
said. I ask for forgiveness for what has been done to you
by Germans...It fills us Germans with shame that the
name of our country and people will forever be associated with
pain and suffering which was inflicted on Poland a
million times. We mourn the dead of the Warsaw Uprising and
all people who lost their lives in World War II."

Polish President Lech Walesa had invited the German President
to take part in commemorative ceremonies as an "act of healing."
He said, "We do not give absolution to the murderers in
Warsaw, but we do not pass those feelings upon the German
nation...Blood and hatred are a curse of the twentieth
century, may they disappear in the past along with it."

While Australians have been a blessing on so many, we must
not ignore our violations where they have occurred.
The history of our Indigenous people is so morally outrageous
as to make the fact that some people are still in denial
unbelievable. A strange psychological phenomenon occurs when
a truth is so big, so obvious, that it becomes to some,
in some perverse way, almost easy to resist.

Beneath every political wound is a personal one, and
personal wounds must be addressed on a personal level.
Other means can treat our wounds, but only a spiritual
experience can heal them.

Forgiveness heals our souls by washing us clean of the past.
and delivering us to an unsoiled present.

I remember how joyous and proud I felt when the then PM -
Kevin Rudd, made our apology to the Indigenous People.
It was a step in the right direction.