tm wrote:

> Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:
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>>Kevin Gowen wrote:
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>>>What's Hall's Creek? Is that like Skid Row?
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> 
>>It's a town in Western Australia. When I passed through, the population 
>>was wandering aimlessly, drunk. The only sign I saw of humanity was two 
>>people making sure that their buddy was standing up while he vomited so 
>>that he wouldn't get himself messy. It looked like one of the zombie 
>>crowd scenes from "Night of the Living Dead".
> 
> 
> See, this is the problem with travelogs. They promise picturesque and 
> it turns out to be a bus stop Burger King, they call it quaint and 
> traditional and you sleep on the floor, you say 'population' and 
> 'crowd', but then- 'the only sign of humanity was two people'.  
I speak of humanity in a more metaphysical sense.

To be fair, the aborigines I saw in most of the urban areas didn't seem
to be treated significantly worse than any minority group in America,
and seem to have the same range of opportunities as minority groups get
anywhere: less than the majority, but not zero. There are areas in the
outback where the aborigines suffer the same problems that American
Indians on reservations are prone to, specifically alcoholism,
unemployment, and general despair.

KWW