Abstrakt: | Aboriginal Australians last in the age of perdition. There has been 224 years
since the day that Captain Arthur Phillip came to Australia with British
convicts. Since then almost every day Aboriginal ‘collide with civilization’
and fight for surviving. All rules of tribal life had to be replaced by new
ones. They had to wear clothes, live in houses of bricks, and work. All of
this was completely different from the previous life. ‘White civilization’ that
has brought the development into the Antipodes has also brought reasons
of perdition. Among those: illnesses, which decimate Aboriginal clans, and
alcohol, which destroys all residues of ancient Stone Age culture and causes
many social problems. For several dozen years, Australian government has
been trying to make up for Aboriginal wrong, but programs for improvement
of their situation do not work. ‘Civilization’, in social evolutionists’
opinion, should be the highest level of people’s culture, for Aboriginal
though it is some kind of abyss in which they cannot or they do not want
to find a proper place for themselves. |