luber@alphalink.com.au wrote:
If it has always been unethical, winding back and seeking reparation is going to interesting everywhere else in the world let alone the current invasions.
Correct. There was a news report on 3KND about various indigenous groups getting together in Canada to share experiences. The ads on that station are also instructive -- many of them urge listeners to e.g. eat vegetables, and not smoke and drink while pregnant. That such ads are necessary strongly suggests to me that Aboriginal communities are still getting shafted dry and hard. A thirty second fact check turns up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_title#History_by_jurisdiction which shows this phenomenon is not Australocentric. Perhaps we don't see it in the papers because everyone sweeps it under the rug like us.
I don't see African countries saying they're a part of Arab or European regions [...]
Historically, some of them were: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_Empire_Trajan_117AD.png I'm assuming by "Arab" you mean the Arabian peninsula, because http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_world#Standard_territorial_definition the Arab peoples include most of northern Africa.