Tuesday, March 29, 2011

British and Their Ethnocentric Views on The First Australians

The British ethnocentric view on the First Australians caused conflict between the two cultures by starting a war between the two. During the first contact between the two sidees, the British started creating racist assumptions about the First Australians, which would later lead to conflict. The British started calling the First Australians as savages, and called them barbarians, as they have met a new race in which the people have dark skin and live a different lifestyle. The British started to dehumanise the First Australians by calling them 'it' instead of 'they'. The First Australians are ignoring the fact that not every culture, and religion is the same as theirs, which is caused by the ethnocentrism of the British. When the British start thinking of them as savages, they will start to think that they can invade their land, and destroy the way the First Australians culture which as an end result would cause the First Australians to get violent, and create conflict.