rikashiku t1_j8dogbo wrote
Reply to comment by YourphobiaMyfetish in Proof of mystery settlement of Aboriginal Australians and Indonesians found in an Italian library by Geek-Haven888
Recently I've started learning more about the First Nations people and I'm shocked that they were actually very sophisticated and adaptable than I expected at the time. edit: because i didn't know anything about them.
The British made the awful misjudgment of considering them to be a less than human people, because some of the tribes didn't understand trade and negotiation that the British are used to.
[deleted] t1_j8ds3jw wrote
>I'm shocked that they were actually very sophisticated and adaptable.
oh yikes. so many groups were 'sophisticated' already, it's just that the Europeans didn't see them as being up to their standards. recently saw a clip of a Zimbabwean woman going off on a Cecil Rhodes fanboy...her ancestors had a perfectly fine way of life, yet Rhodes decided they were barbaric. ugh.
rikashiku t1_j8dtgu7 wrote
>it's just that the Europeans didn't see them as being up to their standards
Exactly. What I mean in my case was that I didn't know anything about them, and to have learned that many of the different cultures in Australia were very adaptive people who took great care of the land and its creatures, but the Western point of view I grew up with didn't even consider them to be a history worth mentioning.
Like I didn't know they migrated farming zones every few years, making the soil fertile, and ensuring animals keep to their own regions away from the settlements.
YourphobiaMyfetish t1_j8e6304 wrote
>because some of the tribes didn't understand trade and negotiation that the British are used to.
I'm 90% sure they all did trade.
rikashiku t1_j8e7cn4 wrote
Not the way the British wanted. It was one of the reasons they didn't consider them to be an intelligent people compared to others, and they did that a lot even between tribes.
The likes of Maori and Tongans were easier and more "human" because they had similar understanding of trade and communication.
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