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In this complete interview, Max "Duramunmun" Harrison, an elder of the Yuin Nation of Southeast Australia, explains fundamental differences between Aboriginal and Euro-Australian worldviews. Unity and cooperation must involve understanding and respect for one another's lifestyle. But the basic Aboriginal understanding of the earth as Mother and source is undermined by a culture of consumerism, passively teaching that vegetables come from a store. Max asks, if the Mother is not understood, how can She be respected?
Max "Duramunmun" Harrison is an elder of the Yuin
Nation of South East Australia. We interviewed Max sitting beside a
creek near his home in Woronora, a small town outside Sydney, Australia.
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max, that was awesome... we need to think, feel, and communicate these things... and youre right about this computer, that video tape, dvd or whatever. they come from the land ultimately, and the land inspired humans to create them.. its funny, strange i mean how humans got stuck on themselves and their technologies. is there anything comparable in aboriginal culture...to this ignorance?.. this separation from the mother?
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