Western Way Of Thinking In Australia

The indigenous population of Australia has been marginalised and oppressed since the very first days of colonisation by the introduced western society. This foreign culture brought with it many drastically different ways of thinking, most of which being polar opposites of the pre-existing indigenous knowledge systems that were held by Australia and its people before the first invasions. These introduced ways of thinking brought by white settlers have been widely held as superior over traditional aboriginal knowledge systems due to the sheer differences in culture and ways of knowing held by each society. Whilst looking at some of these major ways of knowing, being memory, faith and language, we will see that a western way of thinking is not