The First Australians

In the DVD "The First Australians" and the book "The Rabbits", the English's ethnocentric views cause a lot of conflict between the First Australians and the English. For example in the DVD, the English take over the Aboriginals land as if the Aboriginals weren't even humans and as if they didn't even own the land. Once they took over their land they also destroyed the Aboriginal's crops and re-planted the fields with their own crops. The English didn't like what the Aboriginals were planting, so they just decided to plant their own crops, which the Aboriginals didn't like. The English felt that they had complete control over the Aboriginals. They thought that the Aboriginals were wild and uncivilized, and because of this the English thought that they could take their land because they were just animals. If the Aboriginals didn't think and act like the English did, then to the English this meant they were superior. In Bennelong's obituary in the newspaper, many things are said about him. Even though he had helped the English a lot so that they could interact with the Aboriginals, many negative things were said about Bennelong. Bennelong had chosen to go back to his Aboriginal life after being in England, and the English felt that no matter what they did, these Aboriginals could not be turned into civilized "normal" humans like they were. They believed that the Aboriginals were savages and that nothing could make them like English. All of these views that the English had created conflict, especially when the English took the Aboriginals land and planted their own crops. This created a war between the two groups of people. Many English people would also see the Aboriginals as savages who are good for nothing even if they have never actually met one. The Aboriginals would also feel a lot of hatred towards the English.