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"What percentage Aboriginal are they?"
"Are there still any 100% Aboriginal people in Australia?"
As a former settler in Australia these are genuine questions I've gotten from people around the world.
"What percentage Aboriginal are they?"
"Are there still any 100% Aboriginal people in Australia?"
As a former settler in Australia these are genuine questions I've gotten from people around the world.
"But they don't LOOK Aboriginal," people say. What's wrong with that?
...everything. Apart from nobody owing you an explanation about their identity (ever), here's why.
...everything. Apart from nobody owing you an explanation about their identity (ever), here's why.
Genocide, rape and forced separation were used to 'stamp out the Aboriginality' in people by colonisers in Australia. They were used as a weapon to erase culture and history.
