Aboriginal Culture Vs Western Culture Essay

Aboriginal Culture and Western Culture are almost at opposite ends of the spectrum, we view the world and our futures quite differently. My Western culture doesn’t connect to the land or to each other like Aboriginal culture does, compared to Aboriginal culture, my culture feels superficial, shallow and individualistic, I have strong family connections but it’s limited to my immediate circle of family and close friends. Aboriginal culture is much broader and their ties run deeper.
When I look into the origins of Aboriginal culture I see a culture that is centred on the land being a Sacred entity, and how they and look after it, determines their human-ness (Graham, 2008). Aboriginal culture has such a rich and deep relationship with the land, and each Aboriginal person has an essence of their particular Creator within them from the
Cultural vitality for Aboriginal people is embedded in their emotional strength, spirit and essence, they have struggled to maintain their own identity under a constant barrage of change, yet are still able to value their past, and pass on cultural beliefs that are intrinsic to their way of life (Eckermann, 2010). I have never had to struggle to maintain my own cultural identity, this is probably because my cultural identity isn’t as deep or as complex as an Aboriginal person’s identity, their cultural identity is not just culture, it is who they are as a person it encompasses every fibre of their being. So when we, as westerners, dismiss an Aboriginal person’s culture, we are in fact dismissing