Despite living in a time of formal equality, Indigenous Australian youth still face many challenges growing up in contemporary Australian society. This essay examines the challenges Indigenous youth face growing up and the main cultural influences. Specifically exploring the ways in which Indigenous youth today are interdependent to both white culture and indigenous culture. Also including reasoning behind continuous marginalization and stereotyping of Indigenous youth while growing up in this day and age. Examples of Indigenous youth from the film ‘Yolngu Boy’ are used to support this topic.
Marginalisation is predominantly a social phenomenon by which a minority or sub-group is excluded, and their needs or desires ignored (Dictionary, 2018). Marginalisation is still majorly effecting the indigenous youth of Australia by emphasizing indigenous Australians to become demoted. In 1788 when colonisation of Australia begun, Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders experienced marginalisation which consequently still gets faced today. …show more content…
One major source identified as marginalisation among the indigenous youth is unemployment. The rate for unemployed Aboriginal youth is three times the amount of unemployed youth for non-Aboriginals (Statistics, 2014). The 1990 National Inquiry into Racist Violence (NIRV) found indigenous Australians thought newspapers and television were a major influence in perpetrating racism and falsifying their lives and cultures. In support, the NIRV argue the media was showing indigenous Australians in a negative manner, finding Aboriginal Australians were represented as a threat to society (Service, 1991). This type of misrepresentation continues the cycle of marginalisation and
Marginalisation is predominantly a social phenomenon by which a minority or sub-group is excluded, and their needs or desires ignored (Dictionary, 2018). Marginalisation is still majorly effecting the indigenous youth of Australia by emphasizing indigenous Australians to become demoted. In 1788 when colonisation of Australia begun, Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders experienced marginalisation which consequently still gets faced today. …show more content…
One major source identified as marginalisation among the indigenous youth is unemployment. The rate for unemployed Aboriginal youth is three times the amount of unemployed youth for non-Aboriginals (Statistics, 2014). The 1990 National Inquiry into Racist Violence (NIRV) found indigenous Australians thought newspapers and television were a major influence in perpetrating racism and falsifying their lives and cultures. In support, the NIRV argue the media was showing indigenous Australians in a negative manner, finding Aboriginal Australians were represented as a threat to society (Service, 1991). This type of misrepresentation continues the cycle of marginalisation and