The continuing cultural stereotypes can become dangerous as they can influence a young aboriginal person growing up. This is because they discover that they have a different heritage and start to search for their identity Belinda Huntress who is an Aboriginal woman for New South Whales says that indigenous youth say “If this is what people think that being Aboriginal is, then maybe that’s what I’m supposed to be” (Creative spirits, 2009). One of the main supplier of simplified views and a distributor of stereotypes is the media. By the media portrayals of indigenous teens this allows them to be able to put indigenous teens into negative stereotyped categories, by this happening it makes non- aboriginal Australians have a bad stereotype of indigenous
