So, Australia thinks the Aboriginals are too dangerous to be allowed to drink alcohol (What's up with that?)

I know I hate it when someone outside of America talks about American issues, but what's with the race related blanketed law that Aboriginals can't buy alcohol?

This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »

Viper · M

Based on the very little reading I've done since I saw this post less than 5 minutes ago...

The issue is that while a smaller percentage of Aboriginals drink, the ones that do drink, don't stop drinking... and keep drinking, and drink some more... to the point they're threatening their lives or the lives of others.

And that's causing major major issues in some areas and that's why it's being banned in some areas.

Also, it's my understanding that the traditional aboriginal society is a patriarchy, where the males has more rights than the females. And like America back in the day, when males had more rights than females, if the males are going out and getting and staying drunk, that causes issues for the females as well.

In fact Australia apparently got extremely upset with this Canadian musical group...

A group that prides themselves of being able to play a ton of different instruments, and make different sounds in different ways...

But extremely upset that not only a female touched a traditionally male only aboriginals musical instrument, but she played it too.

(PS: Based on the research I did at that time, some aboriginals are now allowing female aboriginals to play the instrument under the guidance of a male, while some still don't allow a female to touch it at all, but different tribes have different guidelines for that)

[media=https://youtu.be/7hiNAOzEr0I]
[media=https://youtu.be/tRK_t3jbchY]