Joe, if he genuinely accepts himself as an Indian, then who are we to doubt him. He is an Indian by any stretch.

Bruce Pascoe may well qualify on the same grounds. Joe, ethnically what are you? Unless you are Aboriginal by blood, you cannot qualify as Australian on ethnic grounds, you can by nationality. Torres Strait Islanders by nationality are Australian, but their ethnicity is Melanesian. My wife is 80% ethnic Polynesian, who identifies as Maori, not an ethnic group at all, by nationality she is New Zealander. In your book what is she?

According to ALLRAGE Bruce Pascoe is;

a mongrel
sh!t (used to circumvent forum rules)
opportunistic slime
lying, cheating, stealing, and a host of other immoral and wrong doings.

I see he's not yet qualified as a "maggot" ah! ALLRAGE slipping old boy.

Paul,

That's all diversionary rubbish and you know it. Don't waste people's time.

Joe

Paul, in the interest of truth and fair play, I can prove and confirm all that I have said and my description about him, and also anyone else who tries to BS their way into something at the expense of the rightful people they are ripping off.
Can you challenge and debunk, or disprove my description of this low-life?
There's another title I have not yet used to describe him, you can add that one with the rest.

Hi Joe,

I gave you an instance from the other side of the world, a 150 years ago of a boy, Herman Lehmann, who was ethnically most likely Germanic. Through the circumstance of spending a critical period of his life with American Indians, came to see himself as Indian, not German. You don't agree that a person trough environmental and cultural factors (aka living with the tribe) can for all intention purposes become totally integrated into that group, becoming one of them.
Do you have no answer, so you claimed I was creating diversionary rubbish! Do you have suppressed fiery Gaelic blood, having a go at me like that?

Looking at all the evidence I have to say Bruce Pascoe is Aboriginal.

Paul,

That you give one example from 150 yrs ago of a german child that was essentially adopted by Indians is not a valid comparison to a kid that is neither of aboriginal descent nor culture that wants "to be aboriginal".

If you lower the bar to that extent, then there is no barrier to anyone wishing "to be aboriginal" and to claim all the benefits offered by the state especially as there is no reliable way to test how someone "feels".

Paul,

1. Of course, people can be integrated into another ethnic group, into its culture, as an enthusiastic participant, I'm sure you've done that with Maori culture - but that doesn't mean that they have become a member of that other ethnic group (or that you have become Maori).

2. Are you insinuating that Pascoe has somehow, without being related to any identifiable Indigenous person or group, become fully integrated into it ? Which group ? Yuin ? Bunyurong ? Pallawa ?

So your absurd and opportunist argument falls on two crucial grounds.

Pascoe has nothing but British ancestry. He started knocking around with Indigenous people barely thirty years ago. He has mates in high places, that's true, who have protected him and promoted his career - why, I can only guess.

So he's a fraud - but he's one of your frauds, so he's alright ?

Joe