"Family is not an important thing, it's everything". Daniel Gordan's, The Australian Dream produced in 2019 is a documentary written about Australia, told from the indigenous perspective, using the story of Adam Goods to portray the idea of racism towards the indigenous people of Australia. The documentary outlines the value of family and the culture that comes with it, to be like no other. Family is conveyed to be the most important aspect of one's culture, shown throughout the documentary as Adam Goodes discovers his own. The idea of the importance of family has been presented through Adam, his mother Lisa May, and white Australia as a whole. To promote family and the importance of it. Adam Goodes is the main character in this documentary, as we follow along his story, of his racial
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The young girl later said "It was just meant to be a joke, I didn’t expect him to actually hear me" but he did. This young girl, in the documentary, depicts and represents the rest of Australia, outlines the idea that most Australians are extremely uneducated on the topic of racism and the culture of the indigenous Australians. It all tracks back to how we are brought up. "Racism is not born with you, somebody put it there." Stan Grant says this in an interview trying to express that the families bringing people into the world decide, they decide how they want to raise their child, they choose their initial values. Through the young girl outlined in the text, her family has made a wrong decision. Family is the most important part of one's life, they create values and beliefs within a child, and as presented throughout the documentary, the family must make the right decisions when 'putting' those values there Families are the compass that guides us throughout life. Without them, we are lost. Daniel Gordan's The Australian Dream presents family as the most important thing in one's life, upbringing and
The young girl later said "It was just meant to be a joke, I didn’t expect him to actually hear me" but he did. This young girl, in the documentary, depicts and represents the rest of Australia, outlines the idea that most Australians are extremely uneducated on the topic of racism and the culture of the indigenous Australians. It all tracks back to how we are brought up. "Racism is not born with you, somebody put it there." Stan Grant says this in an interview trying to express that the families bringing people into the world decide, they decide how they want to raise their child, they choose their initial values. Through the young girl outlined in the text, her family has made a wrong decision. Family is the most important part of one's life, they create values and beliefs within a child, and as presented throughout the documentary, the family must make the right decisions when 'putting' those values there Families are the compass that guides us throughout life. Without them, we are lost. Daniel Gordan's The Australian Dream presents family as the most important thing in one's life, upbringing and