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= = ** The Fall Of The Indigenous Australians Essay ** = = ** What Can We Learn? ** = = ** Arthur Rossignol ** = = ** (547 Words) **

===The Indigenous peoples of Australia were once a prosperous, peaceful civilization of hunters and gatherers. When the British came over on boats in the late seventeen and early eighteen hundreds, they stole their land, raped their women and destroyed their way of life. Since then the Indigenous Australians have diminished in population and in spirit. I have come to the conclusion that the main thing we can learn from the Fall of the Indigenous Australians is that colonization of pre-occupied land ,or in simpler words, stealing peoples home land, is wrong. My reasons for this are that it destroys a pre-established way of life, it promotes negative Nationalism and it is morally unjust.===

===Evidence of how colonization in pre-occupied land destroys a pre-established way of life is very clear in the case of the Indigenous Australians. The indigenous Australians had been living in harmony with nature as hunters and gatherers for thousands of years before the British colonized. After this, all harmony with nature was lost. Over the next few centuries up to the present, Australia has become another highly developed, Co2 emission producer of our present day. From being once beautiful land filled with intricate and unique animals found no where else on the planet, to having some of those species wiped out, and it become another over-developed British Colonization along with formerly Canada and United States. Not only was the land taken for granted, but their whole population has been diminished to only 517, 200 (only 1 per cent of Australia’s full population) Their culture has also been diminished. Present day Indigenous Australians are not treated fairly, and are not culturally appreciated by the rest of the continent.===

===The fall of the Indigenous Australians to British colonization is also a good example of Negative Nationalism. Personally, I don’t that there is anything wrong with Nationalism, in theory. I see nothing wrong with saying “I love my country” but my problem is when you say “I love my country so much that everyone that disagrees is wrong, and I’m willing to kill them or at least shove my cultures and beliefs in their face to prove it.” Unfortunately the second occurred in this situation. The Brits thought they had the right to take the Australians land and therefore took it. We need to stop stealing and learn to share, apparently the British didn’t learn much in kindergarten.===

===Lastly, what the British did the Indigenous Australians is just morally unjust. I believe that destroying a culture and a civilization is pretty low. When people take what isn’t theirs bad things happen, and I believe bad things will happen to the British. A culture once devoted to being harmonized with the earth, now just another primary white, democracy-based so called “fair” society. Well, ask an Indigenous Australian if they feel they personally, or their ancestors have been fairly treated.===

===As i’ve said before, I have come to the conclusion that the main thing we can learn from the Fall of the Indigenous Australians is that colonization of pre-occupied land ,or in simpler words, stealing peoples home land, is wrong. We all need to remember what we learned in kindergarten and share, and play nice. There’s a reason they taught us that.===