Ask us anything: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Much love and respect for all my aboriginal/ indigenous brothers and sisters, from the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma in America!

I’m a proud dungarri man I with a PhD in medicine!!!

Me: Gets into Uber Uber : awkwardly turns music to hip hop .

i’m maori and i always get the question about auntie and uncle. people do it out of respect, as if someone were to call a person, ma’am or sir.

Love the coffee analogy 🙌🙌 going to use that from now on

As a black person in America I feel like I relate to a lot of the sentiment. For example: everyone says get over it, it was so long ago and no one is around from that time. Well my great grandmother is still alive and her parents were born into slavery. Slavery ended technically in 1865 but what the hell you think all those people went? Not being paid and denied education all their lives for generations. People lived as slaves into the 60s. And then Jim Crow and Segregation did not end until the 60s less than 60 years ago, my parents were born during that period. Those feelings from that period didn't just disappear nor did the emancipation proclamation just solve slavery. So that part when he said how can we just get over it when it still effects us rang so true to our problems here. I'm 30 years old and I know things are changing and for the better but these people keep fighting us and especially keep telling us to be quiet. It's not only frustrating but infuriating. I can touch my history to this day and so can you. We still can touch our past history. It's that far removed. Not in the history of United States inception or Australian inception, not on the history of Civilian. Groups of peopel have taken hundreds and thousands of years to recover from things this bad. All we hear at this point is "shut up and get over it" and what we should be doing is healing and learning from the past.

Mother is white from Tasmania Father is black from central Australia I’m Australian and proud of the heritage of both parents, equally

This made me laugh and cry I'm Aboriginal myself and I'm happy for us to answer questions 😁😁

I'm African and I get asked the "auntie or uncle" question ALL the time too! I feel like white people are the only ones who have to have that explained to them - family isn't only blood. We are a community. Very interesting that Indigenous people get asked that too. Great video!

Clearly some people missed the point re how Aboriginal how are you? If you look back in history and racist policies to 'breed' Aboriginal people out and the percentile system used to class Aboriginality, you can see why it is offensive to Aboriginal people and maybe not yourself. Aboriginality isn't just about blood line but about cultural connection. You can be fair but the only culture you know and have been raised in is your Aboriginal culture, that's another reason why it's offensive. You don't automatically identify white due to skin tone.

As an American Native....I am amazed at how this is nearly identical to how were are treated right down to the stereotypes.

For me as a European visitor to Australia, I feel that our education is seriously lacking aboriginal teachings. I find it shocking that I had never heard of the culture and horrors (recent and non) until I visited the country and started to research. Perhaps links to universities outside of Australia would help push such an important topic.

I'm from the UK and this is so important to watch I wish history classes here didn't just focus on world wars and what happened in America I hope Indigenous cultures can thrive again in the future

As someone born in Australia I always loved the Dreamtime stories that I was taught through school and I am interested in learning more about this amazing culture ❤️

I'm half white latina and half indigenous, and I always felt a need to know more about my roots, even though I didn't receive the cultural education and mother language, I always felt close to home whenever I wore my traditional clothes and whenever I listen to some mistical stories. I've received the look of confusion whenever I say I'm indigenous because I am a little lighter than the average guna woman, and that has made me feel a little unsecure. I feel identified as an indigenous woman, but I wish I was more confident of who I am. I needed the content of this video. Thank you so much! 💗

Oh my lord, when I was in a class. Someone was like ‘ holy shit you sound australian’ and I was like ‘ because I am ?’ And he was like ‘ but aren’t you from Pakistan’ 😂 funny shit ever.... um no? I’m aboriginal ?

This is such a dope thing. As a college (American!) student once before, it's always good to see how the indigenous communities of other notable countries, like Australia, deal with the realities of a culture from a stolen land.

Thank you for an amazing video! I'm a non-Indigenous woman from Cairns in Far North QLD and am also a nurse/Educator. I am currently training some mob from Awabakal as health Practitioners. This video gave me some good knowledge on how to be culturally safe and show respect towards my students. If there's one thing I've observed about being in a room full of Indigenous students is that there is such a strong sense of family and connection with mob and that everyone cares about each other equally. Non-Indigenous people can certainly learn a lot about belonging from our Indigenous brothers and sisters, aunties and uncles - I know I have. Thank you x P.S. Aunty Mary I'd sit next to you!

As an Asian person I totally understand the calling someone you respect "auntie" and "uncle". :)

"How well can you throw a boomerang?" I'd ask that question with any Australian, not gonna lie.