MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 22
nd, 2023 at 3:12pm:
There is no such thing as the Aboriginal people - only Aboriginal peoples separated by the likes of language, tribe, culture and values, among others.
To condense them into a single identity is to dehumanise them.
abos are a pan-identity / ethnicity, to suggest that there's really some huge significant cultural differences between them anymore is ridiculous lol
most of them do not speak their traditional languages, nearly all speak english, idfk what even abo "values" are let alone how they differ
cut the platitudes here, you don't need to make arguments like this or hyperbolic statements about how pan-ethnicities or continental groups are somehow 'dehumanising' ideas
and very clearly abos have chosen to identify as a monolithic group by and large, at this point in time it makes no sense for most of them to not do so even if more closely related rings of kinship do continue to have an identitarian effect
it's the very nature of how ethnicity and identity processes work, as documented by pierre van den berge in
the ethnic phenomenonthe voice is fookin retarded bro but the idea that collective representation of so-callled diverse interests is somehow illegitimate is not one reason why, if that were so all parliaments practically everywhere would be discredited