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No matter your skin colour, all non-Indigenous Australians are complicit in colonialism
How could I be an oppressor when I belonged to the oppressed? Here’s what I learned on a road trip around Australia
A few years ago I embarked on a 30,000km solo road trip around Australia.
- Monica Tan
- The Guardian
Like many first-generation Sydneysiders, I knew next to nothing about the…
What I was aware of was the great tensions that underscored Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations.
But at the time I was riding a rising wave of contemporary identity politics and, as a Chinese Australian woman, I eagerly flew the flag of a minority person.
How could I possibly be a colonial oppressor when…