Thursday, January 27, 2011

Indigenous Australian Culture & Australian Mainstream Culture

Indigenous Australian Culture is a complex culture to define, mostly it is defined in ways such as found at http://www.culture.gov.au/articles/indigenous/ which refers mostly to a historical discussion and traditional culture, modern Indigenous Culture is largely ignored. The wikipedia site has some interesting points of note about modern indigenous australian culture.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_Australians

Australian mainstream culture it can be argued is predominantly caucasian, of british (anglo-saxon) origin, modern views of the world largely align themselves with other western cultures such as those of the United Kingdom, the United States and Western Europe. There is a strong link to Christianity in the country's professed moral beliefs although these might not be followed at an individual level.

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