But still, having little knowledge can mean asking more questions, which can be good.
What popped up in my mind was how negative an attitude aboriginals often seem to have. Sure, they have had it incredibly tough. Historically the white man (which includes me) has treated them as basically not human - in fact I have had it said before that the treatment given to the aborigines is worse than that ever experienced by any native race, which may or may not be true.
I just think that sometimes people have to say enough, and stop living in regret about the past. To me, too many aboriginals seem to play the victim. And we all can that. Geez, I kept complaining for years that I was unattractive; when in fact I had nothing to complain about.
That is not perhaps a good example; as I've said aboriginals are a lot worse off than caucasians in this country. I just don't think that they help themselves a lot of the time with their attitude.
Some people or groups are always going to say that you did/do the wrong thing no matter what action you take. At some point in recent history some authorities including the army went into a mostly aboriginal populated town and took matters into their own hands, because apparently many of the men were treating the women horribly (as basically not human), raping and bashing them. This can be a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. Many criticise them for taking matters into their own hands. There would be the same criticism for not doing anything and allowing the raping and bashing to continue.
Perhaps could be considered slightly similar to Afghanistan, where the women are treated with disdain; do we attempt to change the culture to some extent, or do we just let them be?
Criticism will be rife either way.
We can't just give lots of money to aboriginal communities if that money is going to be mostly pissed up against the wall. So what do we do? Any suggestions.
It was said that many current day aboriginal children don't see any light in their future. There are not many jobs in the Northern Territory townships where they reside. Again, how do we change this?
It occurred to me that IMO, aboriginal people are very physically unattractive - generally speaking. How much of a negative effect does this have?
My comment just made could be considered highly racist - and perhaps it is - but I don't care. I really do think that aboriginals are usually less attractive than caucasians; how much does this effect the balance of success between the races?
I have heard it said before that the modelling industry is unsupportive of aboriginals because there aren't many models, but they aren't pro or negative towards any race; just towards beautiful and not. But you couldn't say this stuff in a politically correct society (the truth hurts a lot of the time) as you will be bombarded with "black is beautiful" type of commentary. But I think this goes for the men and women. How many women (or gay men) consider the aboriginal stars of AFL football to be hunks? And how do they compare to the star caucasians?
But please don't compare them with Cameron Ling
Beautiful humans don't necessarily mean happy though, and vice versa. I have found that Samoan/Islander/Fiji type of race to be generally very happy go lucky folk. Yet you don't see too many gracing the covers the womens and mens magazines.
As for the thread title, the television show was posting tweets from viewers while the experts spoke, and that is one of them. The Kardashians are relatively beautiful, though an interesting thing is that it is women who have made them rich. I doubt that too many men tune into their television show.
Not for more than a couple of minutes anyway
