I watched a very enlightening programme about alcoholism on the Aboriginal settlements in Australia recently.
Again, these people had a proud culture and lived in harmony with the land as protectors with a complex social history. Now sitting in out of the way places built for them like open air prisons, cut off from their heritage and dependant on welfare. They are aimless, bored and even though the towns are officially dry, they simply walk outside the boundary and share grog in drinking paddocks.
(Note I am only talking about the alcoholic Aboriginals)
Last edited by Sundae; 01-28-2012 at 07:14 AM.
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