So it's some ceremony where the aborigines open up events by announcing that their allowing the event to happen?
Edit: that's exactly what it is:
A Welcome to Country is a ceremony performed by a local Aboriginal person of significance, usually an Elder, to acknowledge and give consent to events taking place on their traditional lands. It is a sign of respect and protocol that dates back to traditional times prior to colonisation.
A Welcome to Country is different from an Acknowledgement of Country, which can be performed by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to recognise the continuing connection of Aboriginal people to Country. However, a Welcome to Country can only be performed by Traditional Custodians of the land.
Fuck that noise. All the land in Australia belongs to the descendants of the English penal colony established there who took it by right of conquest. What an enormous slap in the face to have to ask for permission from the natives to honor their own war dead.
It's a speech where an Aboriginal person will come speak (for a fee) to "welcome" the people to that land. Typically, it is meant to be done with a local Aboriginal in "respect" of the local tribe. For an American analogue, imagine you are on lands that are considered to belong to Apache tribes. You wouldn't then have a Comanche native come and perform such a ceremony.
Of course, this 'ritual' is new. It's roots go back to the nineties, and even then it was RARE. It's been popularised in the last 5-7 years, and nearly every event has one now. I went to see Cirque Du Soleil not too long ago and they had one before the show started. It typically only lasts about two minutes.
In the event that there isn't a token aboriginal around to perform this, there will still be a token 'thank you' said by some staff member along with stating which tribe the land supposedly belongs to, which is an Acknowledgement of Country. This isn't just events with crowds either. I've been to a fucking escape room place that did this.
It's fucking insane, and it's refreshing that most people have had enough.
What is "Welcome to Country"? A song?
I believe natives now have to “allow” australians to enjoy any big sporting event.
it’s like a land acknowledgement on steroids
So it's some ceremony where the aborigines open up events by announcing that their allowing the event to happen?
Edit: that's exactly what it is:
Fuck that noise. All the land in Australia belongs to the descendants of the English penal colony established there who took it by right of conquest. What an enormous slap in the face to have to ask for permission from the natives to honor their own war dead.
It's a speech where an Aboriginal person will come speak (for a fee) to "welcome" the people to that land. Typically, it is meant to be done with a local Aboriginal in "respect" of the local tribe. For an American analogue, imagine you are on lands that are considered to belong to Apache tribes. You wouldn't then have a Comanche native come and perform such a ceremony.
Of course, this 'ritual' is new. It's roots go back to the nineties, and even then it was RARE. It's been popularised in the last 5-7 years, and nearly every event has one now. I went to see Cirque Du Soleil not too long ago and they had one before the show started. It typically only lasts about two minutes.
In the event that there isn't a token aboriginal around to perform this, there will still be a token 'thank you' said by some staff member along with stating which tribe the land supposedly belongs to, which is an Acknowledgement of Country. This isn't just events with crowds either. I've been to a fucking escape room place that did this.
It's fucking insane, and it's refreshing that most people have had enough.
I'd walk out and get my money back. I'm not humiliating myself and my family by some drunk abo and his Marxist masters.