Name and Country |
In your opinion what is the most important thing Aboriginal people could learn from our Western society? |
| Aaron Lewis from USA |
What not to do |
| Adam from Australia |
Such a big question! Nothing. Personally I would rather not exist and have Australia remained untouched. Would have been great for indigenous Australia to have remained indigenous. Sorry I'm white and have such a mixed background that I wish I had some culture to be proud of. I am however proud of indigenous Australia. |
| Anonymous |
I think its important for Aboriginal people to learn the history of Europeans the Roman Empire and the thousands of years prior to the Australian settlement and that we too have had an extraordinary history. |
| Anonymous from USA |
Not sure. Possibly inalienable human rights. (gender equality etc.) |
| Anonymous |
Unsure |
| Anonymous |
Not familiar with aboriginal |
| Ariella Trotti from Italy |
Sincerely I don't know anything |
| Audrey from USA |
If you try hard enough you can do it! Anything is possible! |
| Bart Boogaard from Netherlands |
Don't know |
| Betsy Sauther from USA |
Patience |
| Bill Hollingworth from Australia |
How to acknowledge their own worth and dignity confidently and with pride and self respect. |
| Bob from USA |
You can get ahead and better yourself if you believe you can and apply yourself. Never give up. |
| Brent Shifley from USA |
Patience. Western society does not begin to comprehend what they know. |
| Brian James from United Kingdom |
That many Westerners have woken up from the brainwashing that tells us we always need more and that there are many who support and respect the way native people around the world live. |
| Anonymous |
Don't do what we do!!! |
| Célio Melek from Brazil |
Nada |
| Crid Jack from France |
Nicolas Tesla's invention of free unlimited energy for everyone. (What a shame that it never happened.) Or how to fly to space. |
| Anonymous |
That most of need to be educated in how to live together. |
| Dana from Canada |
I think they are far more advanced than Western society and it really is the other way around this question should be: what can we in the western world learn from the aboriginal peoples. |
| Anonymous from Canada |
Good question??? |
| David from Australia |
Unless there is a spiritual not religious foundation to western society they can learn nothing its like asking a fish to live out of water |
| David from USA |
How to market themselves their beliefs and their products to become more known worldwide. |
| Deborah from USA |
Don't know |
| Diamantina from USA |
To be cautious about becoming materialistic over-consuming destructive to Mother Nature and disrespectful of other beings based on the bodily concept. |
| Dianna from USA |
I don't believe they need to learn anything from western society. |
| Dionisio from Spain |
How see they the real world. your natural culture |
| Anonymous |
Our Technology |
| Anonymous |
Scientific knowledge |
| Drew from Canada |
Patience and faith that we will do better in time. The energy of life is changing but that takes time. |
| Eddie from USA |
Education. |
| Erik Putnam from USA |
Sun screen? |
| Anonymous from United Kingdom |
Law in order to protect themselves *from* Western society! |
| Gabriel Flores from USA |
Aboriginal people can learn that since the world is forever changing that people will wish to stray from the culture set out for them by their parents and family. They want to be a part of the ever changing world and do not wish to be caught up in old ways. Aboriginal people can learn that they need to keep their beliefs and their principles but should try to expand and touch even the youngest generations because western civilization has a natural fascination with the exotic and the old ways of the world. Aboriginal people could capitalize on this and use it as a way to spread the word of their culture and enlighten the minds of the young cultures still developing in today world and in western the western world specifically. |
| Gabriel Florez from USA |
Western society is constantly changing. That is why I don't believe Americans really have a "culture" because we as a whole are so hot and cold that we constantly change what we "Stand for" and so forth like for example through politics. Aboriginal people can learn from this by adapting to the change in peoples taste. There is such a disconnect from real culture and values that Americans and other westerners have a new rising interest in the "Exotic" aspects of the world. Shows like survivor are so popular because they advertise holding the game in "one of the last untouched edens of the world". Westerners want the exotic and they are interested. Aboriginals can use this to further spread their culture. |
| Garry from Australia |
Education. This would help in many ways assisting in children being occupied throughout the year assist in employment opportunities open up avenues and ideas. |
| Gary from USA |
Don't believe everything said about it. |
| George from Cyprus |
Technology |
| Graham from New Zealand |
Perhaps the value of education to help the tribes overall |
| Gregg Nardozza from USA |
To stand up for themselves. |
| Anonymous from Germany |
Globalization |
| Anonymous |
Don't know? |
| Harry from Australia |
Better heath care and better foods and to manage the bottle |
| Anonymous from Netherlands |
Is there anything good about the western society? |
| Jack from Antarctica |
Again referring back to a similar situation in our Western society the Aboriginals have what basically is a road map of how things will eventually play out over the years regarding the longevity of their culture. The time to save it is NOW. |
| Anonymous from South Africa |
How NOT to stand together and how NOT to support your own culture |
| Anonymous |
I don't really know? Maybe some medicinal things. |
| James from Canada |
I'm not sure if we can teach them anything that is truly of value. |
| James from USA |
What NOT to do |
| Anonymous from USA |
Whatever each individual feels they need. |
| Jeff from USA |
Science/technology |
| Anonymous from USA |
How to incorporate modern technologies in a way that enhances without replacing the old ways |
| Jeffrey from USA |
Diversity of aesthetic appreciation. |
| Jessica from USA |
Not sure. Western culture is having some troubles in all areas right now. From health to monetary troubles. |
| Jim from USA |
I do not have knowledge of Aboriginal society to comment on their needs |
| Anonymous |
They could have done much better without any Western society |
| Anonymous |
I don't think they need much from us |
| Kristi Edwards from USA |
The ability to allow education to increase the ability of the society to grow and become independent. |
| Anonymous |
We're not all bad. |
| Lionel Mouesca from France |
Nothing at all. |
| Anonymous |
Don't know |
| Mark from USA |
What not to do. |
| Mark from USA |
Donno really... |
| Mathieu from Canada |
...Hmmm this is kind of a trick question. I'm really not sure what Western society has to teach Aboriginal people. |
| Anonymous |
Education and job training for western type jobs |
| Matthew Neenan from USA |
Individualism |
| Michelle Brough from USA |
I can't think of anything that is worth learning from Western society! |
| Mike Meyer from Israel |
How to survive in modern world |
| Nick from USA |
Learn from our mistakes! Politics and corruption drugs and excess pollution and waste the list of things that modern society have accepted as routine is huge and the western world try to push their vices on everyone they come in contact with. |
| Anonymous |
Socialization |
| Anonymous |
How not to be |
| Peter from New Zealand |
That $$ & materials & stress aren't everything that they are made out to be. |
| Phil Weiler from USA |
While Western society may be more technically and economically developed than Aboriginal society these advances have come at a great price. In my humble opinion the most important thing Aboriginal people can learn from Western society is that mistakes have been made and should not be repeated. |
| Pierre from Canada |
Perhaps Western medicine. |
| Randal Wilson from USA |
How to incorporate only what you need to make your life a bit easier. |
| Robert Kennedy from USA |
Willingness to be a proponent of innovation. |
| Roberta Hobson from Canada |
To observe the box they are in and determine they do not want to end up like them (blind and deaf) and lose their spiritual freedom! Material things are worth nothing compared to what God has for you "freedom and light... |
| Robin from USA |
How to profit in a material world. |
| Roger from USA |
Not to be like us. |
| Roger from USA |
That a desire for change and improvement of individual and community situations is not a negative thing. There has to be a balance between being in survival mode and ultimate consumerism that completely consumes the world and everything as the modern word seems to be heading towards. |
| Ronald Ballard from USA |
How to behave badly |
| Samantha Davis from Australia |
To overcome suffering+reclaim personal rights to empowerment+model to our children. embrace change+take advantage of education in order to fully harness ones true abilities+explore oneself more thoroughly. embracing trust with other peoples |
| Sanford Webb from USA |
You have got me there! |
| Anonymous from USA |
I think our western society is at times an example of what not to do. We are out of balance. But I do think that cultures can contribute to each other... I'm just not sure how. |
| Anonymous |
Can't think of anything. They seem to be happy the way they are. |
| Sean Jackson from USA |
How to be a better world presence rather than just inhabiting Australia spreading out into the rest of the world. |
| Shawn from USA |
I really can't answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the Aboriginal society fully. |
| Anonymous from USA |
Not to follow our bad example |
| Steve from United Kingdom |
Not to follow the same mistakes that we did in the past. |
| Stuart Sills from Australia |
Medicine and health care |
| Sundeep from USA |
How to make a living being caretakers of the land and the fact that holding on to the old arts and traditions does not mean giving up modern amenities and conveniences. |
| Thomas from Germany |
Absolutely Nothing no they could learn how to rape the World |
| Timur Paltuyev from Kazakhstan |
Nothing!!! |
| Tommi from Finland |
This is a tough one. I think nothing. We should learn more about the thing we have forgotten - the spirit. |
| Troy from Canada |
A simple education. Protection against those that will take advantage. |
| Wayne from Australia |
Education of the western ways of religion culture etc this will instill a greater sense of owner ship and a two way understanding of each society and the difference of living and learning off the land. |
