"jackbadger56" <castle56@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Step sister calls my step dad every week in tears. She's up in the NT
> as part of the intervention. She's getting paid quite well and I doubt
> saving the world was her first priority. She's emotionally tough (or
> was) yet what she is seeing is breaking her.
What goes on in such places is appalling, but 99% of it is their *own*
doing. If I hadn't seen it myself with my own eyes I wouldn't have
beleived
it, and I implore *anyone* who thinks Abbo's are hard done by to take a
trip
and get the real story.
> Unfortunately, *every* *single* *incident* regarding abuse she's had to
> deal with in the last
> 4 months has been brought on by alcohol. Biologically, Aboriginals'
> bodies haven't had the 1000's of years to get used to alcohol, they've
> had 200.
I don't buy that :)
No one is born with a genetic tollerance to alcohol, and the "white man's"
ability to deal with the stuff (such as it is) has not been an
evolutionary
process. Most abbo's like a drink, and a lot of them like to drink
themselves to oblivion, but then so do a lot of whites, and if you plonked
a
bunch of white people who were happy to live in the same kind of
environment
into such a settlement and gave them as much free piss as they wanted
you'd
be very likely to find that the same problems would exist and Alcohol
would
be just as much to blame for them.
> BTW actually I'm not really that passionate about the plight of
> Abbo's, I just hate it when firstly everyone seems to be an expert on
> **** they really don't understand, and secondly I'm sick of politics
> permeating aus.cars to such an extent. I know I should just leave
> these OT posts alone so I shouldn't criticise, but when we're actually
> talking about cars it's a great escape! ;-)
Lol :)
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Regards,
Noddy.
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