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Re: Re:Okay this is WAY over my short curly head
"there would've been a bigger reformation of the aborigenies"
The word "reformation" just pushed my Major Argument button.
The Australian Aborigines (and the people of the Torres Strait Islands) have lived in Australia for at least 40 000 years
on their own and lived perfectly well. Suddenly, a bunch of Europeans come along and decide to take over, so there can be somewhere to put petty criminals.
Along with the Europeans came diseases the Aborigines had never encountered and were thus not immune to, and social problems such as excessive alcohol drinking.
The Aborigines never needed "reformation" - it's the white Australians who had problems.
"This sig is proudly quote-free." -Me.
(Also known as eoz, and now has a non-Tolkien forum, called
http://pub57.ezboard.com/beverythingelse45161everything else</a>.) </p>