Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "Australians reject historic indigenous referendum" video.

  1. It is common around the world for indigenous people to have much worse life outcomes than the surrounding 'developed' society. We see this with indigenous Americans in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Canada, and every other country in the Americas. We see it with arctic populations in Canada, Greenland, Russia. We see it with indigenous populations in East and South East Asia, we see it in Sub-Saharan Africa with the Khoi San and Pygmy peoples. It seems to me, and this is just a hypothesis, that going from a hunter-gatherer society or a nomadic society to a settled, industrial society is an extremely difficult transition to make in just a few generations. Technically, it's easy, but culturally almost impossible. Perhaps our cultures simply cannot 'leap frog' into a completely different level in less than tens, or even hundreds of generations.
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