The name is absent

IX.4 Process IV Aboriginal perception of white stereotyping of
Aborigines

Norms held by whites for blacks are seen as

taking a passive role

to be there when the boss calls

to earn only when the boss dictates

to live and construct their society only as the

European decides

to be subfeet to the hand-out system

people who will never be able to manage their own affairs.

Aborigines perception of whites is that they see Aborigines as a
stereotype, not as a man but

as Jacky

who is a drunk                        ■

who will not work
who goes walkabout
who will not help himself
who is a lazy bastard            .

who is considered below human level
who is ineducable

who is a problem, an embarrassment to white society
who is reified as a problem (money is given for
research, but not for housing) .

who is reified by being made the passive object of
government policies, e.g. on assimilation, on
tenure of land, on OpeningJclosingfmaintaining
reserves

who is to be the object of ¹ charitable^, but not natural
relationships with whites

who is a trouble maker

who has a chip on his shoulder
who is dirty

who is good only for cheap labour, menial work
the scum, the unwanted of society
the most miserable people on earth.

IX.5 Process V Aboriginal stereotype of self

In assembling Aboriginal typifications of the self gathered through
scanning the literature only, the views expressed will be those of a
highly articulate group. Nevertheless, this group may be seen to be
particularly important in their role as contemporary definers of reality,
and as a group whose views are held to be those offering one particular
identity to Aborigines.

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