Ethnocentrics

When the British first set sail for Australia, they didn't know what they were going to find, and they were very ethnocentric about their culture. They instinctively thought that what ever they find would be inferior to them, and that would cause a lot of conflict. What they found didn't surprise them. They saw the different culture of the Aboriginals and because it was so different, treated it with disrespect. What the British saw was a few tribes, with uncivilised savages running about the place. They just didn't understand the different culture. As the British started investigating into the Aboriginals, and exploring more of Australia, they started to feel more and more superior to them, who, to the British, were nothing more than animals. The Aborigines began to feel like their land was being overrun and not treated with respect and because of the culture differences between the British and Aborigines, the British didn't know about the connection the natives had with the land. The ethnocentricity of the British led them to not bother about learning about the Aboriginal culture, and so they just plowed through the land. The Aborigines did not take kindly to this at all. War and rebellions broke out many times between the British and Aborigines, but the British always were victorious. Because of the ignorance the British had and their ethnosentricity, the British ignored the Aboriginals culture and ways of living and went deeper and deeper into the land, killing it when the Aborigines culture had so much to do with living in harmony with the land. This was the main cause for the conflicts that brought about the slaughter of so many people when the British came to Australia.