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Tag: Australia
Ken McKenzie — musician and wise man
While organizing my digital images of the past 10 years or so for putting them up into my new Christmas gift photo gallery (grweb.org/photogallery), I (re-)discovered a series of scan images from a visit in Australia in late 2003. We had travelled through the Flinders Ranges, all the way north to Leigh Creek and to the last outpost of the main road and railway station, Copley SA. [Read more »]
Posted: 07.01.2013, 20:48
Theme Aborigines, Australia, Christianity, Culture, Language.
Tags: Aborigines, Adnyamathanha, Australia, Flinders Ranges, Kenneth McKenzie, Music, South Australia
Comments: none
4 X 2 – Comparing Australia with Germany
Travelling in another country, or migrating into a different nation, seem to be two very different pairs of shoes. A traveller always intends to “go home” again, thus returning to his or her place and familiar customs. However, migrating means to leave “everything” behind, not only the “things” I may easily say goodbye to, but also all non-material patterns, which determine my way of life and the relationship to the people around me. [Read more »]
Posted: 02.11.2007, 0:05
Theme Comparing Life.
Tags: Australia, Comparison, Germany
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The Stolen Generation
Sharron Williams, presenting her life story as an Aboriginal Woman to the Workshop Group “Cultural Awareness (Indigenous) / Breakout Session 3 of the Emergeny Relief South Australian Conference “Making Connections – More than just a Handout”, Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs SA (FACSIA), 18 to 19 October 2007. [Read more »]
Posted: 31.10.2007, 0:25
Theme Aborigines, Stolen Generation.
Tags: Aborigines, Australia, Stolen Generation
Comments: none
Fences in Australia
Since my first visit to Australia, way back in 1992, I am struck by a question, which I find really puzzling: How can people in a country as “free” (and as large) as Australia create that large a variety of fences? Wherever ever you travel through this vast continent, whomever you visit – there’ll be fences all over … [Read more »]
Posted: 15.03.2007, 0:52
Theme Australia, Fences.
Tags: Australia, Fences
Comments: none
Cultural Cringe
In social science studies the term “cultural cringe” is applied, when people in formerly mostly colonized countries see their cultural achievements as minor in value compared to other countries. Invented after WWII by the Melbourne intellectual A.A. Phillips, this concept received some attention amongst the Australian intellectual community. [Read more »]
Posted: 12.03.2007, 1:03
Theme Australia, Culture.
Tags: Australia, Cultural Cringe
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