SAC 2

Question 1

Define perception

Answer 1

The way in which something is regarded, understood or interpreted. (Must be discussed in positive or negative)

Question 2

Define activism

Answer 2

Political activity and protest.

Question 3

Define stereotype

Answer 3

Refers to the assumption that people have certain characteristics because of the group they belong to, such as their race or ethnicity.

Question 4

Define healing

Answer 4

The process of repair. Emotional impacts and feelings of disrespect over time. Actions taken to restore and limit pain, suffering, etc.

Question 5

Define despair

Answer 5

As a response to cultural suppression. (Giving in/giving up)

Question 6

Define defiance

Answer 6

As a response to cultural suppression. (Protests, running away, the teaching of culture in secret)

Question 7

Define cultural suppression

Answer 7

Cultural suppression involves the domination of one culture over another by the deliberate policy of by economic or technological superiority.

Question 8

Define missions

Answer 8

Missions were established in the 1800s to house, protect and “Christianise” local Australian Indigenous peoples.

Question 9

Define protection and segregation

Answer 9

Policies that resulted in the separation of Australian Indigenous people into missions and reserves based on a build that Indigenous people were a dying race and would not survive alone in non-Indigenous society.

Question 10

Define assimilation

Answer 10

A former Australian Government policy, which said that Indigenous peoples “not of full blood”, should be absorbed into the wider population. The aim of the policy was to make the “Aboriginal problem” gradually disappear so that Indigenous Australians would lose their cultural identity.

Question 11

Define integration

Answer 11

A short-lived policy implemented in 1965. The policy was based on the premise that Australian Indigenous people had their own culture, languages, customs and tradition that needed to be “westernised”.

Question 12

Define reconciliation

Answer 12

Recognising injustice and making changes in a society to redress human rights violations and to restore harmony and justice. Healing.

Question 13

Define symbolic reconciliation

Answer 13

A focus on achieving equality in terms of having full rights to citizenship of a nation, and access to the same opportunities, and recognising historic injustice and Indigenous rights.

Question 14

Define practical reconciliation

Answer 14

Involves a focus on providing services to address the inequalities that exist in a society, such as providing funding for the ‘Close the Gap’ program.

Question 15

Define awareness

Answer 15

Concern about the well informed interest in a particular situation or development.