L2 Cultural Respect Flashcards
Why is incorporating acknowledgement of country into official events important? (3)
- Recognises Indigeneous people
- Promotes awareness of the history and culture of Indigenous people
- Formally acknowledges Indigenous people’s ongoing connection to land
What is language for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people? (2)
- Language is more than just a means to communicate, it is an essential characteristic unique to people and communities, and plays a central role in a sense of identity.
- It is also the vehicle within which such cultural knowledge such as songs, bush tucker and traditional medicine, is stored.
What is cultural respect?
- Cultural Respect refers to attitudes and behaviours that promote the recognition, protection and continued advancement of the inherent rights, cultures, and traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
- In Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, health is not just the physical wellbeing of the individual but the social, emotional and cultural wellbeing of the whole community. This is a whole-of-life view and it also includes the cyclical concept of life-death-life.
What is the current inequality regarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people? (7)
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have the lowest life expectancy of any Indigenous peoples in the world.
- Life expectancy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is some 11 years for males and 9 years for females below that of other Australians.
- Aboriginal health standards in Australia are now so low that almost half of Aboriginal men and over a third of women die before they turn 45.
- The poor health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the result of a complex set of interacting factors, one of the most important of which is colonisation.
- Social factors such as income, education and employment combine with health risk factors such as poor living environments, poor nutrition, excessive alcohol consumption, smoking and lack of physical activity.
- Other factors include loss of control, lack of social capital, and the pervasiveness of loss and grief.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are more likely to live in conditions considered to be unacceptable by general Australians standards. This includes overcrowding, poorly maintained buildings, high housing costs relative too income and a lack of basic environmental health infrastructure, such as adequate sanitation, water supplies and appropriate housing.
How did the stolen generations impact Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people? (4)
- The Stolen Generations are not just a historical event for Indigenous Australians, they are still very real.
- The removal of children destroyed the kinship system, where every Indigenous Australian is closely related to all the members of their communities, not just their ‘immediate’ family members as in the Western system.
- It destroyed peoples’ identities and connection with “country”.
- It contributed to the loss of aboriginal cultures, knowledge, and languages.
What intergenerational trauma experiences may the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have? (7)
- War in the earlier years as they tried to defend their country, or continue to live on it;
- Widespread death from introduced diseases;
- Slavery;
- Forced removal from land;
- Imprisonment (often for offences they didn’t know they’d committed);
- Being taken from their parents and families at a young age and held in institutions (where abuse of children was often rife);
- Having their children taken from them.
What do the the APS Apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (2016) consist of? (5)
Apology for:
- Our use of diagnostic systems that do not honour cultural belief systems and world views
- The inappropriate use of assessment techniques and procedures that have conveyed misleading and inaccurate messages about the abilities and capacities of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples - Conducting research that has benefitted the careers of researchers rather than improved the lives of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participants
- Developing and applying treatments that have ignored Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander approaches to healing and that have, both implicitly and explicitly, dismissed the importance of culture in understanding and promoting social and emotional wellbeing, and
- Our silence and lack of advocacy on important policy matters such as the policy of forced removal which resulted in the Stolen Generations.
What does the APS intend to do to demonstrate genuine commitment to the apology? (5)
- Listening more and talking less
- Following more and steering less
- Advocating more and complying less
- Including more and ignoring less and
- Collaborating more and commanding less.
What are the central values of the National Statement?
- Spirit: on-going connection (continuity) between past, current and future generations.
- Spirit: respectful and honourable behaviours that hold Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander values and cultures together.
How do these differences in intelligence arise between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and westerners? (2)
- Cultural biases in assessment instruments developed and normed in Western societies; and
- The different health, educational, community and cultural contexts of the groups involved.
What do the AIPA aim to do?
AIPA aims to provide leadership to achieve equitable participation of Indigenous people within psychology.
It is our responsibility to make ourselves conscious of the issues, to listen deeply to the perspectives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, to promote understanding and be a part of the reconciliation process in whatever sphere you are working in.
