In 1788, when the British came to colonize Australia, they looked at the way the Aboriginals lived in an ethnocentric manner causing conflict between the two cultures.The British saw the aboriginals as savages, uncivilized and animals. The aboriginals were looked upon as inferior by the British, who thought of themselves superior to them because of their inhumane ways of life. This ethnocentrism resulted in conflict between the British and the aboriginals. For example, the British went into the aboriginals farms where cops like yam was planted, and dug it up because it wasn’t what they liked. Instead they planted crops like potatoes and corn, which is what they were used to. The aboriginals were looked upon as animals, and animals can’t own land, which is why the British changed the crops to their liking, they felt superior to the aboriginals. Once the British arrived small pox broke out, leaving the aboriginals confused with the disease they had, and not knowing any type of treatment, many of them died. Bennelong, one of the aboriginal leaders, traveled back to England to learn the how they lived. He was the one holding the relationship and trust together between the British and the aboriginals, but to the British he was considered as once a savage, always a savage. While he was there he was a rum addict and lost respect because of it. After he decided to come back from journey to England he had chosen to to back to his normal lifestyle even though all his respect was lost from the British, he lost his place in his tribe, and his wife left him. After that the British realized they couldn’t make these people live a civilized life. It was wrong and inconsiderate for the British to just come in a take over the land and create a bias point of view to the people settled their. If the British would have come to the new land open and not bias towards the people these conflicts would never of occurred, and they might have been able to learn and live with the aboriginals.
