This post is about the indigenous people of Australia, which are commonly known as Australian aborigines. They currently make up about 2.7% of the Australian population, with majority living in the south east, centered along the Murray River.

Aboriginal Australians were social beings who lived in a number of social groups sometimes called bands, clans, sub-tribes and tribes, but essentially in a family or kinship group who were either of the same blood-line or were related to other people through totems.Their lifestyle has little of none interference of the modern society we live in. Such examples are:

1)Clothing-
The early aborigines were observed to be naked. Men and Women of some tribes are known to have worn a belt around their middle made of animal fur, hair skin or fiber which is used to carry tools and weapons. This shows the difference as people n modern times are fully clothed.

2)Food and Diet
The aborigines hunt for their food, also gathering berries, plants, eggs and insects. They live near resources which included waterways such as rivers or were on the seacoast, making canoes from bark or tree trunks to aid them in fishing. This suggests that they identify the practice of catching food for their food supply instead of cultivating plants of rearing animals like what we do in our society.

3)Culture
The culture of the aborigines differs greatly from ours. They lead rather simply lives and find entertainment through dancing and singing, compared to the technology we have for entertain. The Australian Aborigines used a limited variety of implements to make musical sounds. The didgeridoo (see separate listing) is probably the best known, but others included rattles, clapping sticks and two boomerangs clapped together. The melodies, tunes, harmonies and rhythms of Aboriginal music included traditional ceremonial songs that were handed down from generation to generation, which is very meaningful to them. Another form of culture was in dancing. Aborigines held a corroboree in which there were elements of music, song and movement that imitated or replicated animal movements, hunting prowess, battles or ceremonies of initiation that had been conducted for thousands of years. Corroborees are part of Aboriginal culture. They were not simply dances, but were highly significant events and belong to the Australian Aborigines.

The aborigines were very traditional people, they believed in sprits and reincarnation. They respect their own culture a lot by performing many spritual rites, singing and dancing in respect to their religion. This i most probably why they do not want to develop or change their living habits to the modern ones we have. They are willing to lead simple lives and sacrifice the luxury of the technology we have today. Furthermore, they treasure family kinship, which i feel is fading fromt he modern society we live in today. Maybe the simple lives they lead allows that to bond together well (: This shows how devoted they are to their religion and how much they enjoy it. I really admire the simplicity of their lifestyles (: