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Culture is homogenous. This presumes that a (local) culture is free of internal paradoxes and contradictions such that (a) it provides clear and unambiguous behavioural “instructions” to individuals –a program for how to act –or (b) once grasped or learned by an outsider, it can be characterized in relatively straightforward ways (“the Dobuans are paranoid”). A homogenous view of culture makes the second inadequate idea easier to sustain, namely that
Attempting to learn about the Central Australian Indigenous culture, reveals a myriad of ways of being within the language groups and within each community. The people themselves offer a solution in the form of a Malpa, a person from the community who provides cultural translation and keeps you culturally safe.
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