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Originally Posted by Sol-Skysailor
How about this one? Suppose one moves into a house and the previous owner
or rental property owner (lets quit calling them/us landlords) communicated
that previous occupants intentionally or unintentionally caused some damage,
what’s wrong with saying
gee whizz I’d never do that and SORRY IT HAPPENED TO YOU.
Then one could make sure of not causing such damage,
and do something good extra.
Why, surely it’s not hard to be kind?
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I think its called, "basic respect". I became blood brother to an aboriginal I went to school with almost 50 years ago. I was vilified for it back then. I considered it then, and now, as an honour to be regarded so highly by a member of the First people and the aboriginals in my school school stood up for this poor little pommy ******* on many occasions, I might add.
I went on to become a teacher and have worked with a lot of aboriginal kids, and their families. When a white man asks permission to enter an aboriginals home and takes the time to understand their perspective and treat them with a bit of basic respect, bloody hell, the change is amazing. Years later, they'll still say "G'day" on the street and tell me whats going on for them now.
Yep, as a direct result of what MY culture has done, through ignorance, and sometimes design, there are a lot of very damaged aboriginals and that's just a consequence of cultural collision, but to speak in derogatory terms belittles us more than them.
I feel incredibly fortunate to live on the same continent as the First people. We have an awful lot to learn from them and an obligation to help them deal with the consequences of our ancestors' actions.
Anyone who wants to scoff should place themselves in the others footsteps and if that don't work, they can F-off back to where they came from
