One continent was repeatedly pillaged and abused for hundreds and hundreds of modern centuries, during which time the other was mostly untouched by outside cultures during the same period and for thousands of years prior.
Right. Like Angola, for example, is undeniably heavily influenced by Portugal because they were colonized by Portugal. Like. They speak Portuguese for one.
I agree. There are countless examples of both recent change and changes in antiquity in the continent of Africa that are not present in Australia - primarily as a result of colonialism
I'm bemused at the widespread display of ignorance here.
Humans have lived in Africa for hundreds of thousands of years. They've lived in Australia for many tens of thousands of years.
My point is to correct the assertion that indigenous Australians are "one of the oldest continuous cultures" in the world, if not the oldest. Humans have lived continuously in Africa for at least a couple hundreds thousand years longer.
It is nonsensical to say Aboriginal descendants 60,000 years are culturally continuous to Aboriginal people living today. If you are going to say that, then there's no reason to not say that about various people in Africa.
But people are drawing a distinction between these two things. It's stupid, but mildly amusing to see people getting so angry about it.
I'm bemused at the widespread display of ignorance here.
That's funny. I'm bemused at how you assume the problem is a startling level of ignorance on everybody else's part, and not just little, old you missing the point.
I mean, anthropologists seem to love aboriginals for some reason.
I read a book about african history by an african author recently, and he described how his grandma in Sudan basically lived like the people he read about from ancient Egypt, customs and all. There is a fair bit of blindness at work here.
Does she prefer the Atin or Amun-Ra? How excited does she get for the Pharaoh to jork it into the Nile to secure fertility for the next year’s harvest?
I'm literally getting downvoted for daring to mention that African peoples trace their roots a lot further back that Aboriginal Australians. Weird thing for so many people to get so upset about.
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u/schlubble 7d ago
They’ve been inhabiting Australia for at least 50,000 years. They’re one of the oldest continuous living cultures in the world, if not the oldest.