Reflective Essay On Aboriginal People

1. A shared sense of history can be explained in many ways and can go on forever, however to summarise it in a brief summary it began many years ago. The Aboriginal people had lived in Australia for a long period of time, for more than 50, 000 years ago, before the European settlers and Captain Cook arrived, and set foot on the land. However, the Aboriginal people were said that they had so little attachment to the land. They lived off the land by hunting for their food, making their houses from the materials which they had gathered, gathering daily essential needs and using stone tools. The Aboriginal people accepted the fact that the Europeans lived differently to them, some liked the way others did not like it. Captain cook then stated …show more content…
I identify myself as coming from an Australian, Aboriginal and Italian nationality, which then effects my religious, ethnic and professional culture. I could also be known as ‘half-caste’. In school I would be a part of many Aboriginal cultural programs and because of the colour of my skin and the fact that I identify myself with other cultural backgrounds as well as Aboriginal some Aboriginal students from the program would say that I was not ‘black-enough’ to be a part of the Aboriginal culture. This is the only time I found it difficult and challenging interacting with someone because of cultural reasons. However I have not found it difficult to interact with diverse cultures. I believe this is because I Identify myself with a number of cultural backgrounds and therefore I know how to act with different beliefs and styles. Also it could be impacted because of the current society i live in, even though people are still very religious and others very strongly opinionated about particular things we live in a very diverse multicultural …show more content…
They were taken away from their Aboriginal culture and brought up in Catholic missionaries, this effect their identity as they were confused and unsure on who they are. They did not know who their people were, whether they believe in Jesus from the bible they were taught with, or in the Aboriginal culture such as the dream time stories they would have been told as a younger child. Other challenges which Aboriginal ‘half-caste’ struggled with identifying with two different cultures is the different living styles, Aboriginals lived off their land, they did not sleep on a bed as they believe bad spirits can come and get them from under the bed. Whereas the Europeans slept on beds, and they would get their supplies from a cattle station which they would run for that particular