aborigines+today

There are about 460 000 aborigines in Australia today. The aborigines  a re sadly not well liked in Australia, it is a lot of rumors around them and their culture is full of prejudice. It may be because people know too little about the aborigines and then make up stories that aren’t true, and people tend to focus on the bad things. Their expected life span is 17 years less than the normal life span for Australians. The infant mortality rate is three folded and they are 15 times more exposed to heart diseases than other Australians. In addition to this, a lot of them have diabetes.

Today’s aborigines are actually cut in two. Some live like their ancestors and some live like modern Australians. Most aborigines use English as their main language, but there are also some who still speak aboriginal.

For those who still live the aboriginal way life can be hard, but they are almost guaranteed work and subsidence in their reservations and national parks. Most children in Australia have to go to school but aboriginal children are sadly not forced to schooling, so reading and writing isn’t very normal in the tribes.

It is actually normal that a 14 year old aboriginal kid can’t read or write. The elderly people are responsible for the control in the reservations, but still it is a lot of violence and use of alcohol. Not many hunt like before, but a lot of them eat food from the nature.

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