Thank you for helping me with my social work assignment at uni. I was having trouble wrapping my head around the aboriginal perspective, but you made it a lot clearer. Thank you again.
Excellent presentation and lay out of the fundamental principles that support a good life... cheers! Good to hear a bloke from Gunnedah speaking as well.. My home town
I wish I had such a profoundly interesting culture. I do not envy the history of the effect of European settlement though, I do believe we need more role models like yourself to our young indigenous people and our community (regardless of originality) to inspire and educate Australians. Knowledge like this will encourage cultural awareness, competence and safety.
Hello Brother Man. Discovered your vid today a few years after your upload . Having a long listen ......!! Love it man. Feel it . Many connections to black African traditional tribal thought /philosophical approach to being.
... just a language comment: the word INDIGENOUS doesn't mean tribal or ethnic, though it is often used that way. Indigenous means "born locally", as in "indi"=here and "genous" =generated from. Generated from here. So an English person born in England is "indigenous" of Great Britain just as much as an African American person is "indigenous" of the United States. Please familiarize yourself with the real meaning of words you use, or you won't be taken seriously.
You can break words down using lexical semantics to discuss "real" meanings of words, but that ignores the fact that that is not how language works within an active culture. Words are typically originally generated and defined using strict meanings from the construction of root words, but they more often evolve alongside culture to mean different things. A word's meaning is determined by social use, and the social use of the word "indigenous" defines it as referring to the "earliest known inhabitants of a place and Please familiarize yourself with the real meanings of the words you use, or your comments won't be taken seriously.
Thank you for helping me with my social work assignment at uni. I was having trouble wrapping my head around the aboriginal perspective, but you made it a lot clearer. Thank you again.
Excellent presentation and lay out of the fundamental principles that support a good life... cheers! Good to hear a bloke from Gunnedah speaking as well..
My home town
This has helped my community nursing essay so much. thank you
Fantastic, many thanks. As a VCE Psychology teacher, we are implementing SEWB
Thanks for this articulate yet simple perspective on SEWB. This is such a valuable resource!
I wish I had such a profoundly interesting culture. I do not envy the history of the effect of European settlement though, I do believe we need more role models like yourself to our young indigenous people and our community (regardless of originality) to inspire and educate Australians. Knowledge like this will encourage cultural awareness, competence and safety.
Hello Brother Man. Discovered your vid today a few years after your upload . Having a long listen ......!! Love it man. Feel it . Many connections to black African traditional tribal thought /philosophical approach to being.
B.C. Reel glad you like it. Yes, lot of wisdom in this cycle and the speech.
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You spelt emotional wrong.
Can you spell Emocional correct please
... just a language comment: the word INDIGENOUS doesn't mean tribal or ethnic, though it is often used that way. Indigenous means "born locally", as in "indi"=here and "genous" =generated from. Generated from here. So an English person born in England is "indigenous" of Great Britain just as much as an African American person is "indigenous" of the United States. Please familiarize yourself with the real meaning of words you use, or you won't be taken seriously.
You can break words down using lexical semantics to discuss "real" meanings of words, but that ignores the fact that that is not how language works within an active culture. Words are typically originally generated and defined using strict meanings from the construction of root words, but they more often evolve alongside culture to mean different things.
A word's meaning is determined by social use, and the social use of the word "indigenous" defines it as referring to the "earliest known inhabitants of a place and
Please familiarize yourself with the real meanings of the words you use, or your comments won't be taken seriously.
This is in an Australian context, in which Indigenous refers to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.