Australia’s Aboriginals

Feed them fresh fruit juice, not beer, mates

“In the new millennium, it’s hip to go native. You don’t have to look far in Australia today to notice a superficial interest in the Aborginal condition. Yet when it comes to time to put up or shut up — in other words, go to bed with an Aborginal or pay a hefty fee to buy some of their handicrafts or artwork — the topic seems to change rather abruptly to the day’s cricket scores or the number of beers you chugged last night.” 
Doug Knell, Doug’s Republic

Some fads catch on,  some don’t.  When travelers visit South America, they want to learn to salsa and to rhumba and to get jiggy with the locals.  In Africa, it’s not uncommon in the more laid-back rural areas for European girls to strip off their tops and walk topless with their African lovers, just as the African women are accustomed to doing.  Yet the trend to ‘go Abo’ just hasn’t caught on fire.  In my year in Australia, I never saw a foreigner paired up with an Aboriginal. The most Aboriginal anyone ever bothered to get was to buy a didgeridoo, an Aboriginal wind instrument, and play it during a break in a night of drinking. Enough Aussies don’t mind going Abo.  In 2001, 69% of married Aboriginals were married to non-Aboriginals.

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