Posted on 12/21/2022 6:43:38 AM PST by Red Badger
Aboriginal elder says Europeans are misusing Welcome to Country ceremonies
Narungga elder Kerry White says constant Welcomes are culturally demeaning
She also labels constant Acknowledgement of Countries as 'virtue signaling'
An Aboriginal elder says constant Welcome to Country and Acknowledgment of Country rituals are not being used correctly and have become 'virtue signalling' for non-Indigenous people.
Narungga elder Kerry White, who stood as a One Nation candidate in the last South Australian election, said the Welcome to Country ceremony has been taken out of context by non-Aboriginal Australians.
'It's an attack on our culture because it is not being used correctly,' she told Sky News on Sunday night.
Narungga elder Kerry White says Welcome to Country and Acknowledgment of Country rituals do not reflect authentic Aboriginal culture and are demeaning
'It's just virtue signaling.'
According to advocacy group Reconciliation Australia a Welcome to Country should only be performed by a Traditional Owner of the ritual's location and if such a person is not available an Acknowledgment of Country is appropriate.
Ms White said the Acknowledgment of Country is really just a European adaptation of Welcome to Country, which is not being employed in the way Aborigines did.
'(It) was only used when Aboriginal elders welcomed other Aboriginals onto their land for negotiation talks,' Ms White said
'They didn't use it every day, it was a ceremonial process.
'So, they've taken our ceremonial process and demeaned it by throwing it out there every day in every aspect of what Australian people do.
'And I think that is culturally wrong.'
A smoking ceremony is performed outside old Parliament House in Canberra, with an Aboriginal Elder saying such rituals are often being misused by non-Aborginals
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The only thing that matters is that the virtue signalers feel good about themselves.
This stuff is getting way out of hand.
Can’t say this, can’t say that.
Can’t wear this, can’t wear that.
She should strip off her clothes and wear kangaroo skins.
She’s appropriating our culture...............
Sort of like the American Native Population going to WalMart and buying them an authentic Head Dress for the Delaware people MADE IN CHINA, with feathers from pheasants in Russia! And people who can’t even speak one word of DELAWARE language, act out as if they were kin to Elizabeth Warren. When we can bring back the buffalo to the plains and we all return to living in TEE PEES..then we can do this ritural.
Is it my imagination or does the writer keep repeating stuff and doesn’t get anywhere near a point until paragraph 9?
TEE PEES
Dude couldn’t decide if he was a tee pee or a wigwam
I told him “You’re two tents!”
It’s the UK Daily Mail style.
The text is interspersed between pics of various theme-related items and is not exactly thoroughly connected................
It was kind of Empty and a Nothing before the Europeans showed up
*groan*
Love that song!...............
...and a “get out” from my son.
:)
Yeah, the redundancy is redundantly redundant, and frankly, I’m sick of it! Good grief, can you believe that the writer is actually paid good money for this gibberish.
Redundant - See, ‘Redundant’
Dude couldn’t decide if he was a tee pee or a wigwam
I told him “You’re two tents!” "You're too tense!"
🤜🤛 Good one. 👍
Paid by the word, no less!
Dear mr. aborigine, just because you walked there first..... What next? Claims you’ve been there since Pangea existed?
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