Culture is everything. Life itself is composed of culture. Culture is a diverse topic in which extends to shape and form an individual, group, community, or even a society. According to the Merriam-Webster’s definition of culture, culture is, “the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations”. Culture derives from a practice of beliefs in one’s atmosphere. One’s community shapes and forms an individual. There is an abundance of culture throughout the world, however each one of them are uniquely special and filled with history. History that extends from a long period. Although time changes, and people change, culture will never die.
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Rainforest are so common due to the vast resources available for people to utilize and take advantage to create a life for themselves. Although there is not much evidence on the longevity of life for people who lived in these rainforest ecosystems. In response, the question of longevity and overall ability to utilize the resources, Richard Cosgrove argues, “hunter-gatherers inhabit tropical rainforest according to anticipated resource costs and social use - factors determined by density, distribution and return in food value. As Dwyer (1986) points out, those depend upon the structure of those economic resources and whether the ecosystem possesses the appropriate food attributes.” To survive in these ecosystem, hunter-gathers are commonly the most successful in utilizing the resources available in rainforests. Australian Aborigines were indeed hunter-gathers. During the wet season, the Aborigines lived off nuts and fruits. At the end of the wet season, the availability of resources in rainforest will fully utilize. Aborigines feasted on rats, snakes, crocodiles, lizards, turtles, birds, possums, macropods, and fish. Dry season meant that they could be more mobile. With men going on hunting trips and women keeping a vegetable diet, from …show more content…
The British tried to force the Aborigines to assimilated their culture and practices. In attempt of rebellion, the Aborigines Protection Society(APS) was created. According to Douglas A. Lorimer, “The APS played a role in the articulation of native rights and in providing space within imperial culture for the agency of colonized peoples. That dimension of the APS requires studies more open to the ambiguities, compromises, and achievements of humanitarian responses to the challenges of empire.” The APS strived to defend indigenous people’s rights from powerful colonies. Roughly 90-100 years later, facing possible extinction of their language, culture, and diseases, Aborigines fought a hard civil rights movement in the 1970s, that resulted in the 1976 Aboriginal Land Rights Act. The Aboriginal Land Rights Act of 1976 signified a hope for Aborigines and other societies feeling the opposed of colonial powers trying to take over and force assimilation. Although the number of Australian Aborigines has decrease drastically almost facing extinction, with the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, things can finally look up of them and extinction might be avoided. It was very interesting learning about their culture and learning about other endangered languages. It goes almost unknown, with very little acknowledgement about these societies and culture. I could not see myself without my culture. My culture is
Rainforest are so common due to the vast resources available for people to utilize and take advantage to create a life for themselves. Although there is not much evidence on the longevity of life for people who lived in these rainforest ecosystems. In response, the question of longevity and overall ability to utilize the resources, Richard Cosgrove argues, “hunter-gatherers inhabit tropical rainforest according to anticipated resource costs and social use - factors determined by density, distribution and return in food value. As Dwyer (1986) points out, those depend upon the structure of those economic resources and whether the ecosystem possesses the appropriate food attributes.” To survive in these ecosystem, hunter-gathers are commonly the most successful in utilizing the resources available in rainforests. Australian Aborigines were indeed hunter-gathers. During the wet season, the Aborigines lived off nuts and fruits. At the end of the wet season, the availability of resources in rainforest will fully utilize. Aborigines feasted on rats, snakes, crocodiles, lizards, turtles, birds, possums, macropods, and fish. Dry season meant that they could be more mobile. With men going on hunting trips and women keeping a vegetable diet, from …show more content…
The British tried to force the Aborigines to assimilated their culture and practices. In attempt of rebellion, the Aborigines Protection Society(APS) was created. According to Douglas A. Lorimer, “The APS played a role in the articulation of native rights and in providing space within imperial culture for the agency of colonized peoples. That dimension of the APS requires studies more open to the ambiguities, compromises, and achievements of humanitarian responses to the challenges of empire.” The APS strived to defend indigenous people’s rights from powerful colonies. Roughly 90-100 years later, facing possible extinction of their language, culture, and diseases, Aborigines fought a hard civil rights movement in the 1970s, that resulted in the 1976 Aboriginal Land Rights Act. The Aboriginal Land Rights Act of 1976 signified a hope for Aborigines and other societies feeling the opposed of colonial powers trying to take over and force assimilation. Although the number of Australian Aborigines has decrease drastically almost facing extinction, with the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, things can finally look up of them and extinction might be avoided. It was very interesting learning about their culture and learning about other endangered languages. It goes almost unknown, with very little acknowledgement about these societies and culture. I could not see myself without my culture. My culture is