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This essay focuses on the erronous idea prevelant since the white settlers, that because Aboriginal people couldn't be trained, they were stupid. The article discusses conformity to white western ideology. The essay concludes with: 'You can't train a cat and you can't train an Aborigine to do anything he or she does not want to do. The final and by no means the least important question to finish with, what would you prefer to be: a free-thinking independent person or a compliant, obsequious, arse-licker?'
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You Can't Train a Cat
