Analysis Of The Song 'Possibility For Change'

Possibility for Change.
As depicted in poems and songs, the land of Australia has forever been changed by the destructive nature and presence of Western culture. As many of these texts were crafted by those whom this has effected within the Aboriginal culture, the vast majority of the songs and poems give a sense of clarity and premise. By analysing how the Aboriginal culture connects, operates, contributes and accommodates with the land as well as with each other, within their community, it will be easier to understand key errors in the Western culture and what they can learn to do to improve their future. These include being accommodating for their environment, understanding the balance between the land and humans, ownership of the land and …show more content…
They believe that they have to work for what they have, that it was theirs to do what they liked with and that they were constantly fighting to keep their land. When an Aboriginal tribe settle in a location, they work with the land to survive. They believe that the land is where they belong, it owns them and it holds their history. In both of these quotes, both read by different Aboriginal and Western cultured men, it is easy to see there is a struggle for ownership. As the Western culture takes away land from the Aboriginals, the banks do the same to the Westerns. When the Western culture travelled and settled in Australia, they brought with them their ideology of ownership. For them, no matter how many of something someone had, it was still theirs. Whereas in aboriginal culture, you only took what you could use. Due to the difference in cultures, Aboriginals believed that it was okay to take items from the Westerners, they believed that they could use it as the Westerners had many. Because of this the struggle of ownership greatened. As Westerners marked their boarders with fences, the Aboriginal culture lost what they believed was a part of them. Something as simple to the Aboriginals as walking across the land to get to one place to another what then called trespassing. This is shown by the Western man in ‘This Land is