ABSTRACT

For many Aboriginal people, a long-term interest in cultural maintenance and language requisition has led to them pursuing a range of creative and influential careers often ignored within mainstream media and Indigenous studies focused instead on disadvantage. The career paths chosen by many Aboriginal people committed to their culture are highly varied, concerned not only with cultural integrity and maintaining traditional kinship systems, but also the production, distribution and provision of local community advancement and capacity building. Watching whites who dominate every quality of life outcome in both Australia and the United States become incensed with rage over questions that expose their fragility is quite revealing. In Australia, where white privilege is so unadulterated and pure due to its isolation compared to the United States, one can see racist comments together with hostile aggression almost daily portrayed throughout the media.