Having taken up an Indigenous Studies course, I am again forced to face the fact that America and Australia are very similar. The course, taught by a white Australian, is made up of about 25 students, most of which are white. I can't help but see a mirrored image in my mind of an African American Studies class back in the States. I don't really understand why, even today, there are such divides, or what it is with this feeling of white supremacy. One of the goals of this course however, is to remove the biases and stereotypes that often confound the teaching of these types of subjects and deliver the material through unclouded and unobstructed methods. I am very much looking forward to this class and all that I can learn about the native peoples of this country, and hopefully I won't just be learning as a white woman in a foreign land.
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