Yolngu Boy vs Personal Culture
Rites of Passage
A rite of passage is a ritual or ceremony signifying an event in a person's life indicative of a transition from one stage to another, as from adolescence to adulthood. Rites of Passage change according to culture, religion, socialisation and personal identity. They can be categorised into time, environment, society & culture and persons.
The film ‘Yolngu boy’ follows the coming of age journey of three young aboriginal boys; Lorrpu, Botj and Milika as they experience their own rite of passage mainly influenced by environment, power and authority and culture. Their lives and rites of passage are very different to my own.
A cultural comparison can be made between my culture and Yolngu culture. Their coming of age is represented through a traditional ceremony whereas in my life, there are no definite recognitions of becoming an adult except gaining the right to vote and the law changing slightly, there is no leaving society and reentering as a transformed adult in the eyes of society.
Identity
As the three boys embark on their journey to Darwin we are shown flashbacks of their childhood as young aboriginal children and how they were brought up to respect their gods and culture, this affects them all differently as Botj tends to resent his culture and Lorrpu embraces it, Milika is the westernized one of the three and his identity is mainly based upon introduced ideas to the aboriginal culture such as AFL and music/technology.
My own identity is based around the choices I make, society’s expectations and my experiences. I have no religious cultural guidelines to dictate my choices or identity.
Socialisation (Environment, Peers, School & Family)
Yolngu Boy is set in North-Eastern Arnhem land, where the community the boys come from live very close together , their peers and family rarely change in comparison to my own environment where friends are always moving and changing especially as I lose connection to various peers in the
A rite of passage is a ritual or ceremony signifying an event in a person's life indicative of a transition from one stage to another, as from adolescence to adulthood. Rites of Passage change according to culture, religion, socialisation and personal identity. They can be categorised into time, environment, society & culture and persons.
The film ‘Yolngu boy’ follows the coming of age journey of three young aboriginal boys; Lorrpu, Botj and Milika as they experience their own rite of passage mainly influenced by environment, power and authority and culture. Their lives and rites of passage are very different to my own.
A cultural comparison can be made between my culture and Yolngu culture. Their coming of age is represented through a traditional ceremony whereas in my life, there are no definite recognitions of becoming an adult except gaining the right to vote and the law changing slightly, there is no leaving society and reentering as a transformed adult in the eyes of society.
Identity
As the three boys embark on their journey to Darwin we are shown flashbacks of their childhood as young aboriginal children and how they were brought up to respect their gods and culture, this affects them all differently as Botj tends to resent his culture and Lorrpu embraces it, Milika is the westernized one of the three and his identity is mainly based upon introduced ideas to the aboriginal culture such as AFL and music/technology.
My own identity is based around the choices I make, society’s expectations and my experiences. I have no religious cultural guidelines to dictate my choices or identity.
Socialisation (Environment, Peers, School & Family)
Yolngu Boy is set in North-Eastern Arnhem land, where the community the boys come from live very close together , their peers and family rarely change in comparison to my own environment where friends are always moving and changing especially as I lose connection to various peers in the