Yes, see that's interesting (and I was thinking about this earlier, actually)...
We also have the alcoholism epidemic. That is almost exactly the same, as are a few other issues (child abuse and neglect, for one), but culturally...
Our "natives" base almost their entire modern identity on aping (lol) your blacks...
Like, it is extremely noticeable. From music, to clothing, to hairstyles, to violence. Our "half castes" (because there is less than 50K ACTUAL "purebloods" left) fall over themselves to be "wiggers" (the classic 90s term). It's... Odd.
Even politically/with their "activism" and "social justice" obsession, they are largely aping "African Americans", not their fellow North American natives...
This is the negative power of "pop culture", in particular hip hop, tv and movies (but mostly hip hop).
See also: our South Sudanese, Sub-continentals (mostly Indians. But in this case, think the Hmong gangs in Gran Torino), and fucking Lebs and Viets. It is the exact same problem...
Though the Aboriginals and South Sudanese are the main problem, now. The Lebs still cause trouble in Western Sydney, and they're responsible for a lot of the political corruption there (see also: Italians, specifically the Calabrian Mafia, in the Riverina district of NSW, and Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Melbourne), but really... The main, widespread" issues now (aside from Chinese political influence, and violence from them against locals) are Maori, Aboriginal and fucking South Sudanese gangs, unfortunately... One of those, you may notice, is not like the others...
American pop culture is an infection in this country (no offence), and it is literally causing us to break down across racial and "gender" lines. All "your" (not you personally, of course) hyper-partisanship is ripping this place apart, too. This is how we end up with the above, and it is going to break this place, in the not too distant future, unless we fight back, which clearly isn't happening... :-/
It's important to note that there were probably only ever 100-200 thousand (at the very most) "full-blood" Aboriginals living on this goddamn continent, even before "Whitey" arrived...
What this means is, inherently (given that there are, now, something like 750,000 people "identifying as" Aboriginal, vis a vis the 50k "full bloods" that remain, lol), if "pureblood" Aboriginals were to "go extinct", it would be from out-marriage, and leaving their tribal shitholes for better lives. Which, I think, bears some ironic similarity to the situation of "your" natives, only... There are a lot less Abbos, numerically (and probably proportionally), hardly any purebloods remaining, AND, importantly, what purebloods there are, live in such squalor that it is, ironically, worse than what I have seen of "the worst" Indian reservation in the US...
It's completely fucked. These people... Literally aren't even living in the same century as the rest of the country, and any time anyone tries to intervene, the left (and some useful idiots "in the centre") fucking screams and literally riots...
It's very fucking sad, IMHO. And all of these "quadroon", "octeroon", etc, activists who live middle class lives, in the cities, are University educated, and yet can still claim all sorts of benefits do not help the situation in ANY way, and, I would argue, make it so much worse, sadly...
Rant out. Hope that... Gives you some context of just how bad things are, here (it's worse in NZ, but in different ways... More like Canada or Alaska, really), at this point, with that issue. :-/
At least in America, our natives mostly keep to themselves and run Casinos to subsidize their growing alcoholism epidemic.
Yes, see that's interesting (and I was thinking about this earlier, actually)...
We also have the alcoholism epidemic. That is almost exactly the same, as are a few other issues (child abuse and neglect, for one), but culturally... Our "natives" base almost their entire modern identity on aping (lol) your blacks...
Like, it is extremely noticeable. From music, to clothing, to hairstyles, to violence. Our "half castes" (because there is less than 50K ACTUAL "purebloods" left) fall over themselves to be "wiggers" (the classic 90s term). It's... Odd.
Even politically/with their "activism" and "social justice" obsession, they are largely aping "African Americans", not their fellow North American natives...
This is the negative power of "pop culture", in particular hip hop, tv and movies (but mostly hip hop).
See also: our South Sudanese, Sub-continentals (mostly Indians. But in this case, think the Hmong gangs in Gran Torino), and fucking Lebs and Viets. It is the exact same problem...
Though the Aboriginals and South Sudanese are the main problem, now. The Lebs still cause trouble in Western Sydney, and they're responsible for a lot of the political corruption there (see also: Italians, specifically the Calabrian Mafia, in the Riverina district of NSW, and Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Melbourne), but really... The main, widespread" issues now (aside from Chinese political influence, and violence from them against locals) are Maori, Aboriginal and fucking South Sudanese gangs, unfortunately... One of those, you may notice, is not like the others...
American pop culture is an infection in this country (no offence), and it is literally causing us to break down across racial and "gender" lines. All "your" (not you personally, of course) hyper-partisanship is ripping this place apart, too. This is how we end up with the above, and it is going to break this place, in the not too distant future, unless we fight back, which clearly isn't happening... :-/
It's important to note that there were probably only ever 100-200 thousand (at the very most) "full-blood" Aboriginals living on this goddamn continent, even before "Whitey" arrived...
What this means is, inherently (given that there are, now, something like 750,000 people "identifying as" Aboriginal, vis a vis the 50k "full bloods" that remain, lol), if "pureblood" Aboriginals were to "go extinct", it would be from out-marriage, and leaving their tribal shitholes for better lives. Which, I think, bears some ironic similarity to the situation of "your" natives, only... There are a lot less Abbos, numerically (and probably proportionally), hardly any purebloods remaining, AND, importantly, what purebloods there are, live in such squalor that it is, ironically, worse than what I have seen of "the worst" Indian reservation in the US...
It's completely fucked. These people... Literally aren't even living in the same century as the rest of the country, and any time anyone tries to intervene, the left (and some useful idiots "in the centre") fucking screams and literally riots... It's very fucking sad, IMHO. And all of these "quadroon", "octeroon", etc, activists who live middle class lives, in the cities, are University educated, and yet can still claim all sorts of benefits do not help the situation in ANY way, and, I would argue, make it so much worse, sadly...
Rant out. Hope that... Gives you some context of just how bad things are, here (it's worse in NZ, but in different ways... More like Canada or Alaska, really), at this point, with that issue. :-/