Here is a piece from a friend in Australia. I enjoy his perspective which I offer here for your consideration.

This problem of aboriginals, and their tie to the land, and societal greed to exploit what is in the land but would otherwise go un-beneficiated is as strong here in Australia as anywhere. We WASPs cannot fully grasp the aboriginal tie to the land. Prime examples of failures in this regard occur in Africa where indigenous leaders, e.g., Mugabe, have been quite happy to drag their countries into abject poverty and total dependency just to prove to one and all that the land was originally theirs and it is again theirs now even if they had to go backwards by 100 years, starve the people who supposedly owned the land, and take away all hope in order to prove that the land is again theirs. Other examples are Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique etc. all wallowing in a quagmire of poverty and dependency on handouts.

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