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Originally Posted by Magic Christmas Lights
@Nymue In Australia, I've heard that there is a lot of racial conflict regarding aborigines. Is that right?
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Yep. People feel very conflicted because we feel culturally guilty about where they are now and why, but public policy has made *some* strides towards helping them out, and yet, as these things are, it's a big mess.
So you have a loooot of indigenous people in bad poverty, which leads to things that make people uncomfortable -- alcoholism, homelessness, hostility, ignorance, etc. And so you get people who looooove successful Aborigines like major actors, Olympic athletes, solid politicians, etc., but are scared of and/or even resentful toward the Aborigines they meet on the street, again, for class reasons.
You can even look at the roots of the problem as colonists treating "simple natives" as the ultimate socially immobile bottom class, the non-economic entity or subhuman. People who don't fit into a pre-existing economic system are really useful to ****heads like that.