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The impact of colonisation on the Aboriginal culture. How has traditional aboriginal dance been changed or evolved from the effect of colonisation?

Some Australians still believe that Europeans were the first people to discover this continent. They know that Australian was already inhabited when the first Europeans arrived, but in there eyes Aborigines were entitled to no ownership rights, no legitimate claims or privileges. The land was empty as far as they were concerned and Europeans saw no moral or legal barriers to stop them from taking over the land. Aboriginal way of life would have been very different if there were machinery for linking their various groups but the story of Australia development would have been very different if there had been this machinery.
Aboriginal life style was did not measure up to Europeans views on the proper way to make a living. Especially when these arrangements went with a minimum of clothing and none of the furniture and other material equipment which was regarded as junk. Due to this attitude, it made it much easier to take advantage of Aboriginal people and to disregard aboriginal culture...

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