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Howevei; it must be pointed out that the white 'world* in contact
with Strelley does support the model. Increasingly welfare workers
and police request the Mob to take town Aborigines and rehabilitate
them within the Mob’s structures.
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It suffices at this point to say that the evidence supports
the fact that the psychological model offered by the theorizing of
the group does appear to be real to the group and to determine their
psychological reality and their choice of identity within this
reality.
The question of how long this ’world’ will be permitted to
continue to offer a psychological reality is a separate question,
depending on issues which will now be discussed in Chapter XVI,
issues of political, cultural, economic viability.