At the time of extension the colonisers’ colonial power, cultural colonialism happens at the same time. Cultural colonialism practices as an influence of one culture over another, which brings cultural injustice to the colonial society (Ballantyne 2010). In the history, when European invaders arrived in North America, the number of Indian aborigines dwindled drastically. The aggression made most of the natives to be killed, the people who survived were forced to disregard their traditional cultural practices, values and beliefs and accept the whites’ culture. To achieve the ‘peace’ of the settlement, the whites moved many tributes to the abandoned land and what the Indian leaves were destroyed. The behaviour devastated the tribes’ culture …show more content…
Since, the ancient culture is precious to the world, ways of remedying cultural injustice have to be put forward. Firstly, policies of respecting the development of indigenous culture and their rights to have their culture will be usable for mitigating the issue. Multicultural policy can be seen as an example. Multiculturalism strategy was implemented in Australia in the early 1970s. Instead of creating the prevailing model of intercultural with the white cultural core and other cultural secondary, the multiculturalism seeks to equal diverse of cultures in all kinds of aspects (Dunn et al. 2010). To achieve that, the society has to make the indigenous participate in the program as an equal partner, which assists them to protect their own cultures (James 2012). For instance, the aborigines in Sydney, they have the rights to join the land planning and managing program. Speak for themselves of how the environment should be arranged to benefit themselves makes the indigenous brings them the sense of belongings. Similarly, the land governance program in West Victoria also requires the voice from the …show more content…
Educate aborigines with their own language and own cultural brings them ability to inherit their own cultural. In New Zealand, Maoris have their own schools where teachers speak Maori, teach Maori and their own traditions and customs. And all the cultural knowledge and language are compulsory subjects for the Maoris to learn. The elder in the group also instruct the younger ancient cultures and every generation will pass the traditions on with no exception (Ballantyne 2010). After learning the knowledge, they can transfer their cultural in different ways to achieve the heritage, such as through arts and music. For example the Albert Namatjira, Australia’s most famous aboriginal artist. Instead of painting on the rock and carving and do sculpture in the cave, this artist combines the aboriginal and Western knowledge together to create the modern style landscape painting. This art form is a more powerful media that can disseminate culture to all over the world. The values and profits of his works make the supporters and sponsors assist the cultural heritage more actively. Likely, music is an important means of expressing indigenous past, present and future heritage. The music industry can encourage the respect for the cultures of indigenous and make the society recognise it is worth to be saved. Except the education for the aborigines to express