Australian aborigines are one of the oldest cultures that exist nowadays. They came to Australia from the Pacific Islands around 40,000 years ago, and stayed in isolation from the rest of the civilization until the end of eighteenth century, when the first English settlers arrived. Transmission of some diseases from the Europeans became fatal for aborigines and the settlers started practising all kinds of atrocities on the natives to occupy their land. These days, the role of aborigines in Australian society is still a serious problem. The bloodthirsty racist past and the fact that aboriginal people do not fit into the occidental lifestsyle too well makes their integration very difficult... if it turns out that they need to be integrated somewhere.
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