A culture that has survived
13/5/08
If Aboriginal culture is now to be described as complex and diverse (”Dreamtime over in Aboriginal studies’’, 12/5), what words are left to describe the culture of the European Renaissance, or the court of Harun al Rashid and his astronomer-poet Omar Khayam, or the hundreds of vanished cultures? This politically correct thinking is looking at history through the wrong end of the telescope. Isn’t it beneficial to marvel and wonder that Aboriginal cultures have survived unchanged for so long - far longer than the apparently more sophisticated cultures of Mexico, Egypt, India and China? Howard Dewhirst; Burleigh Heads, Qld
See: http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/letters/index.php/ theaustralian/comments/a_culture_that_has_survived/
Dreamtime over in Aboriginal studies; See: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23681424-2,00.html
Australia; Aboriginal; Culture, History
Tags: Aboriginal, Australia, Culture, History