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What's this big deal called social norms?
Maiia: I left the periphery of the 2007 Strong Foundations Conference for Rebuilding Social Norms in Indigenous Communities, enlivened with an enormous and I believe a justified sense of positivity.
When the news media reflects this reality, deferring from destructive reportage that damages Indigenous identity, it becomes part of the solution. However mainstream news and 'media' has been failing all it's consumers. Not only Indigenous populations. Going on line is so good as it's a two way process. We can express ourselves as well as being passive consumers of broadcast content.
Cape York Institute Policy & Leadership
REBUILDING SOCIAL NORMS
INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES CONFERENCE
WEBSITE "Improved service delivery can only go so far in addressing entrenched socio-economic problems"
Speakers like Prof. Marcia Langton, Ken Henry, Noel Pearson, Dr Chris Sarra etc, pondered the social norms necessary for strong Indigenous identity within the mainstream of Australian culture in 2007.
REFORM: An address from Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma:
Human Rights and Equal Oppurtunity Commission
Indigenous Service Delivery Conference
Maiia: The principles apply globally. I'm not sure after the barbarianism of the industrial era, the events of the last hundred years, I'm not sure anyone is that sure about identity and sanity. For example at Greenham Common they had 96 cruise missiles each equal to 16 Hiroshimas. That's not normal thinking, that's not sane. It's not socially aware, or responsible.
However in the context of this 2007 Australian conference - my insight was that human dignity desperately needs to be dignified in culture/media. Human dignity and an ideal everyone of us can strive toward as individuals and communities. Media Reform Maslov's Hierarchy |