Thread: Somethings you don't ask on Face book.

lives in a 99% white caucasion area
asks question on fb about persecuting white caucasion people

what could possibly go wrong?

Originally Posted by Eevo

lives in a 99% white caucasion area
asks question on fb about persecuting white caucasion people

what could possibly go wrong?

How is asking if a name could/should/might be changed persecuting anyone? Let alone a particular group?
Such a name change could be a recognition of heritage & thousands of place names in Oz have indigenous origins.
If folks feel persecuted by it they have the problem I think.
BTW I feel the same way about changing the name of products that were never intended to offend.
Jonesfam

Originally Posted by jonesfam

How is asking if a name could/should/might be changed persecuting anyone? Let alone a particular group?
Such a name change could be a recognition of heritage & thousands of place names in Oz have indigenous origins.
If folks feel persecuted by it they have the problem I think.
BTW I feel the same way about changing the name of products that were never intended to offend.
Jonesfam

the name is only being changed cause its a white name. that's persecution.

Mount Corhanwarrabul or Mount Daungwurrung both derived from the Woiwurrung and now is just a smidgen away with the anglicized spelling?


Names predated most of us. Streets near me had German names. All changed during WW1! Wilhelm, Bismarck and Waldau are foot recent foot notes.

Original name for Dandenong Creek was Narra Narrawong.
We all know where that starts with a little rearrangement we have clearly got some current names which are from Woiwurrung .

Ikara ranges is in my view cool. Captain Matthew Flinders was an English navigator and cartographer yet I bet over a beer he would agree people had names for many of the places he mapped as he had help via Aboriginal translator, Bungaree.

Bungaree became the first known Aboriginal person to circumnavigate Australia and contribute to the mapping of the Australian coastline with Capt Flinders A few places ring a bell with the names? Postcode 3352 is only 11km from Ballarat's name was derived from two Aboriginal words meaning “resting place”

Chatted with a 90 year old+ last week who lives in a house older than he is which was on Bismarck st and Waldau lane before lots of new houses hid the beautiful old place names. I will ask him if he knows many of the local place names.

The haters you met in your post probably have NFI where they live.

Originally Posted by Eevo

the name is only being changed cause its a white name. that's persecution.

Is the colour of the skin important?
It may be considered a question of culture but then again the Australian culture is diverse, mixed & diluted, it's is not Anglo.
Jonesfam

Originally Posted by jonesfam

Is the colour of the skin important?
It may be considered a question of culture but then again the Australian culture is diverse, mixed & diluted, it's is not Anglo.
Jonesfam

only to racists ....

The whole country originally had indigenous names, so why not use them?

Map of Indigenous Australia | AIATSIS

Originally Posted by Eevo

the name is only being changed cause its a white name. that's persecution.

Cambridge dictionary define persecution as unfair or cruel treatment over a long period of time. I think you'll find this is an example of indigenous people having named something which then whitefellas renamed - that's the persecution on show.

I think it's a great idea personally - renaming areas their proper traditional name.