What is the cultural and historical difference between New Zealand and Australia?
New Zealand was colonised by white Europeans in the 17th century onwards. The indigenous people, the Maori, had inhabited New Zealand from about 1,000 AD (approx). The Maori fought back against the colonial settlers. Their culture had/has an established 'warrior class', and provided strong resistance.On February 6th, 1840 a treaty was signed between the colonials and the Maori, the "Treaty of Waitangi". Australia was similarly colonised, but the inhabitants, the Aboriginal people, had lived continuously for 40,000 years prior to thee arrival.The Aboriginals were generally a nomadic hunter-gatherer society. A treaty was never signed with the colonials. Many died from introduced diseases, included the common cold. Others were hunted and killed by the colonialists.Today, Maori culture has a respected and central place in contemporary culture. You see references to it in language, place names and the prominence given to their point of view in many national matters.Today in Australia - particularly in the cities - there is little or no evidence of indigenous inhabitants. You rarely see an aboriginal person in daily life. Their culture is absent, apart from aboriginal art galleries, a few place names and a few actors and television 'personalities', such as Ernie Dingo.Often at civic ceremonies, the person hosting the event will say, 'we pay our respects to the elders of this land', etc. Although in some ways a welcome gesture, as someone who grew up in NZ, it seems rather sad that such a culture has been effectively removed from contemporary Australian life, and is - at best - a marginal part of most Australians understanding of 'Australia.'
Why do Australian aboriginals look so different than all other races or ethnic groups?
Why do Australian aboriginals look so different than all other races or ethnic groups?To me they look very much like the the native people of Northern India. I once thought that is where the anthropologists trace then. However, while someone here at Quora agreed with me in terms of physical attributions, they pointed out that at one time anthropologists traced them to the Tamils of Southern India.If you meant they look nothing like the Negroid races, that’s because they are more closely related to Caucasian s albeit with an extra dose of melanin. It has been observed that if a full blood Australian aboriginal breeds with a European, and successive generations breed exclusively with Europeans after 4 or 5 generations all physical traces of their aboriginality will disappear. In short :unlike the Negroid or Asian races, you can breed the Australian aboriginal out of existence.
How similar or different were the various cultures of the Aboriginal Australian Peoples, before European settlement?
Firstly it’s really hard to find out because of the destruction of our people and culture.But from what I learnt through my Elders is that the different tribes around Australia (hundreds of them) all spoke a different language or dialect. Even people in the same tribe would often develop their own dialect as most Indigenous Australians we're nomadic and travelled in little clans of 10–20 people around their Country’s boundaries (a tribes land is known as their Country) they would then stay for a few days at a spot and move on so that they didn't overconsume the natural resources and they could come back at another time and it would be refreshed.Aboriginal culture is embedded within their spiritual belief that they were guests in this beautiful Country and they did their best to maintain it. when making canoes they used just enough bark from different trees so that the tree still lived. No one but an Aboriginal person can describe the connection that you feel for your ancestral land.All tribes would of past down the stories from the dreamtime to the younger ones, these were mainly old legends thousands of years old, with deep morals included into them That the children would learn from.it is truly An amazing culture, just a shame the majority was lost due to the illegal invasion from the British.
What are some non western and non industrial cultures?
i need to look up an article and do a report on a non western and non idustrial culture for my anthropology class. i just dont know and would like some help please. can austalian aborigines be one??? i really dont know what is consider non western.
What is the difference between native people and aboriginal people?
nothing. they are just different words that mean the same thing. all of these words: native, indigineous, aboriginal, authocthonous, all mean exactly the same thing.
Are there a lot of cultural differences between groups of Australian Aborigines?
I'm not a professional in this area (i.e. cultural or linguistic anthropologist), but what I have gleaned are that the Aboriginal languages were estimated to number in their hundreds, Australia was (and still is) one of the most diverse linguistic countries on earth at any time. So my answer to your question is yes.There are still many different languages and groups or tribes in current day Australia, and there are still many different cultural differences between tribes in current day Australia. This is big place.Some examples may be tribal stories or dreamtime stories, initiation rituals and secret mens and womens business, sand and painted and carved art, corroboree songs and dance and ceremonial costume, scarification art, weaving works, spears and woomeras, traditional canoes, to name but a few.Here's a modern map of languages in Australia (1996): ABC Online Indigenous - Interactive Map
What are the differences and similarities between European settlers and Aborigines?
differences: - aboriginals where the original people of the land, europeans weren't. - aboriginals culture, were it not destructed, solely involved the earth ours involves technology & new inventions. - aboriginals have 'elders', europeans have 'grandparents'. - europeans had 'families' aboriginals had 'clans'. - europeans had the bible, aboriginals had the dreamtime. - europeans had 1 language, aboriginals had up to 250 different languages. similarities: - they are both humans. - they both are now mainly christian. - they (youth) of both ethnicities participate in AFL 'aussie rules' which is football. - they (youth & young adults) of both ethnicities participate in NRL 'national rugby league'. - they both share quite similar lifestyles in the present day. - they both (as a culture) like art, music & ceremonies.
What are the similarities between New Zealand and Fiji culture?
Neither are big, both have several islands, but Fiji more than NZ. Both have Polynesians, Indians, some Chinese and Europeans, but the indigenous Fijians (except on the Outlying Islands) are mostly Melanesian and not Polynesian. Different DNA. NZ didn't have the alcoholic Kava in its ceremonies, but all Pasifika cultures have ceremonies around food. Pigs and seafood are central to Pasifika cultures. They both have kumara or sweet potato and can cook in pits, although Maori developed this more. . Welcoming ceremonies are very important, and both have a version of haka. Maori language is more like Cook Island than Fijian. Double hulled canoes and similar sails with the 'bite' out of them, although NZ Maori canoes or waka became mono hulled.