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.