'some call it culture' - personal notes

Personal statement (how you relate) Draft

I’m from a historical town (Ballarat) in watherrung country, I have lived their my whole life. Catholic school that had to change one of our founders because they are a pedo

Bring up other weeks (possibly)

Don’t read from slides

talk for 4 mins

include artworks that could relate to the slides

Introduction section

• emphasis is placed on the culture as it is being brought to the ‘foreground’

• by placing the cultural status of the person in front of the crime it implies that Aboriginal culture is a culture of crime

• more so implying that ‘traditional culture’ is a culture of rape where Aboriginal perpetrators are given exemption from punishment

• Creates a culture where women are ‘silenced’ and men ‘rape with virtual impunity’ (poorly paraphrased)

• identifying the perpetrators as Aboriginal is a use of headlining tactics that defame and taint Aboriginal culture (essentially boiling down to negative stereotypes perpetuated on to Aboriginal peoples labelling them as dangerous criminals who have a culture accepting and normalising horrific crimes such as rape making them seem barbaric)

• ‘misinformation’

worthiness and depravity

• Emphasises the culture of the perpetrators making people this that it has something to do with their culture

• determine the value of a culture in comparison to the readers own culture

SCRAP YOU ARE NOT DOING THIS SECTION

An Imaginary Moral centre

Most of this section stems from ignorance, a lack of understanding/unwillingness to understand, and lack of societal acceptations of Aboriginal culture … something something the other

it is more so on condemning a group biased on individual actions rather than the worth of the group itself, emphasising negative stereotypes

• If one priest is a pedo its the fault of the priest but if one Aboriginal person is a rapist then its the fault of the entire community and their culture - mostly coming from a lack of understanding - (find old notes on High Ground) - when it comes to Aboriginal culture as Christianity is more widely known and accepted

• “society is distance”

• unwillingness to understand who Aboriginal people are,

• Told their problems rather than culture

• They are often categorised as otherness due to people not wanting to understand

• Equate everything to the ‘Aboriginal Problem’

• Expose the Aboriginal culture as unworthy compared to other cultures

Script break down + *Quotes

• define the imaginary moral centre (Pink) - further up in article

• Deviant acts (Blue)

• Not the Who but the Whole (Yellow)

  • Culture of Harm

  • *Big Quote (Pink) - small don’t make the whole point

• The distant ‘Aboriginal Problem’ (Green)

.. . an imaginary moral centre ... presents depraved acts in a dominated community in such a way that it becomes possible for those in dominance to imagine that they reflect the moral superiority of the dominating groups rather than the depravity of their continuing dominance.

Prompting readers too..

ensuing that readers…

making readers think…

Reflecting imagined moral superiority of

Moral righteousness of the white centre

being so high up you don’t

An imaginary moral centre portrays wrongful actions in a subjugated community

DEIVIANT ACTS

*Fix up, sounds like you are just reading the article

Professor Norm Sheehan assesses deviant acts committed he prompts readers to use casual explanations such as, What made one of us do this? prompting an evaluation of our imaginary moral centre in attempts to understand why a person would behave this way.

Deviance from a moral norm focuses

NOT THE WHO BUT THE WHOLE

A Priest can be condemned for crimes against a child will not cause a total ban on the religion, but the priest will be condemned for not only what he did but because of who he is as an individual. Readers of … article are instead prompted to condemn Aboriginal culture because of who the perpetrators are.

This is not the same cuticy that is extended to the Aboriginal community as deviant acts committed by people in the community are seen as not for who they are as an individual but for their Aboriginal identity what they are part of represent as a whole community

BIG QUOTE

Deeming Aboriginal culture as both ‘other’ and its peoples wrong it aims to make the other dominant culture better in comparison by hiding their own wrongs behind a misunderstood community. To quote the article “…identities are not only constructed to marginalise and control Aboriginal communities, they are also constructed to conceal aspects of the dominant culture that may expose it as unworthy”

also fuled by a lack of understanding towards the Aboriginal community

THE DISTANT ‘ABORIGINAL PROBLEM’

placing context and complexity