language, we all had to keep to English, and that way they stamped a lot of it out ”
Nannup 1992:85. The black must follow what the white said. They could not speak in their language, but English. The orient must follow the colonizer‟s rule,
and command because the colonizer wanted their race to be the only one known. The orient could not show their true identity like race and culture.
The whites wanted their culture to be the only one existed in their environment at that time. They did not want any mix culture in their place. The
whites thought that because the Aborigine was inferior, so they had to listen to whatever the whites told them. The Aborigine had to follow the whites‟ rules. The
whites did not want the Aborigine to do their habits like when they were still in their hometown, bec
ause when they were in the whites‟ country, it meant they had to speak what the whites spoke, they had to follow the whites‟ rule, and the
whites‟ culture.
10. Alice in Adelaide Terrace
There was a place when Alice used to go. It was tearooms down in Adelaide Terrace. Aborigines could sit there and talk. They could hear everything
that was going on outside. The room was curtained off so the other customer would not know who was behind the curtain. The other reason why the owner put
the curtain is because the whites wouldn‟t come if they see Aborigines there. “But
I think the curtain was put up because white people wouldn‟t come in and eat if they saw us in there.” Nannup 1992:118
The whites did not want to see the Aborigine in the same café with them. It was a tearoom where the whites often went to. The Aborigine could come there
if they wanted. They were not forbid by the owner to come, but they had to keep separate from other customer the whites. The room was being curtained off. The
whites did not want to see the Aborigine there. The whites would not come if they saw any Aborigine there. Seeing the Aborigine there could make the whites lost
their appetite, because they did not like to gather with the Aborigine who is the slave and the inferior.
11. Alice in the White
’s Society
Aborigines could not marry the whites. The whites wanted to keep Aborigines together, and if Alicehad wanted to marry white, well, that was no no
They wanted to keep all Aborigines together and let them die out. That was their plan. If we inter-married we would still be going on you see but
they wanted to brush us all out. I heard that too, you know, just through white people talking, saying they wanted a white Australia Nannup
1992:147.
The whites did not want to have a mix culture or identity between them and the Aborigine. They wanted to keep the Aborigines together, so that it would
not ruin the social-class of the whites. The Aborigines were inferior, while the whites were superior. The whites were the boss, while the Aborigines were the
slave. It was why the whites wanted to keep the Aborigine together. The whites did not want to have a low social-class by being with the Aborigines and marry
them.
