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Essay: Why Aboriginal Australians Work For All

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Why do Aboriginal people get given everything but us Australians work for everything?

This essay will focus on deconstructing the question, ‘why do Aboriginal people get given everything but us Australians work for everything?’ The person who created this question depicts a disregard and disrespect for the Aboriginal people of Australia, showing distressing ignorance on a multitude of issues and perpetuating a negative stereotype. This essay will look at the words and terminology used, and look at the aspects of stereotypes enforced through a question such as the one poised.

The wording of the question is clearly poised to an audience of white Australians, with the aim to discredit Aboriginal Australians and enforce a negative stereotype …show more content…

This stems from the effects of colonisation, which led to their loss of Kanyini, their connectedness to their land, culture, spirit and community (Kanyini 2008). This question illustrates a lack of knowledge for the traumatic history of white colonisation in Australia and the impact on Aboriginal Australians, instead focusing on an ‘us versus them’ mentality which is inherently racist (Axelsson et al. 2016). However, the question to some readers may appear valid due to lack of knowledge about preceding wrongs against Aboriginal peoples (Sherwood 2013). The perpetuation of racial prejudice and judgement based on race is based largely on the assumption that ‘everyone’ has the same perspective on Aboriginals, without regarding their target audience (Hunter & Jordan 2010). Through stating in the question that Aboriginal people are a separated entity to us Australians, whether or not it was intended, they have said that Aboriginal people are not Australian (Hunter & Jordan 2010). Not only is this offensive to the Aboriginal people, it creates an us verse them mentality, which is damaging and completely excludes Aboriginals from being a part of their own country (Hunter & Jordan

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