Comments on: Cultural Spaces (An example of the Limit Conditions the people face)

By: S McLean

S McLean — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:50:39 +0000

Thank you for these insights. I work as a medical linguist, helping medical specialists from other cultures become part of our health system. Much of the work is acculturation and understanding of cultures within Australia. Many of these doctors will work at some stage with Indigenous communities. Feeling ‘estranged’ is a very powerful emotion and the person feels at a disadvantage, as you so rightly point out. Listening, explaining, are part of giving more than surface information. These are the aspects that take time in patient/doctor communication and as you mention, are important in engendering empowerment.

By: Mark Proud

Mark Proud — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:30:49 +0000

Very profound comment about the surface answers to Aboriginal questions – it seems that we don’t even understand what it is that we are missing in the communcation between cultures.And becuse of the pace of the dominant culture, we don’t slow down enough to listen to the underlying question. Thank you for the thoughtful article.

By: Predatory systems maintaining Indigenous disadvantage: Some examples

Predatory systems maintaining Indigenous disadvantage: Some examples — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:55:54 +0000

[...] discussed in the previous article Cultural Spaces (An example of the Limit Conditions the people face), one of the limit conditions that create Indigenous “poverty” is that Aboriginal people [...]