Are most people that you'd think are black in Australia are black or aboriginee?

Question

In america, all darked skinned people are black. But in Australia, some major cities like Darwin Australia have a big percentage of aboriginee, but I never really heard about blacks in Australia. Are the people that are black in Australia black or aboriginee? And what is the greater majority, black or aboriginee?

by darked skin, i meant a general term that included black and aboriginee.

Answer 1

I would assume Aborigine, since they make up a bit more than 2% of the total population and Australia isn't known for having a significant African population.

Answer 2

All dark skinned people in the US are not Black, as in having African descent. Hispanic, Arabic, East Indian, Native American, and Polynesian people can have very dark skin, it all goes back to your anscestors' climate and how much protection they needed from the sun...that includes a lot more places than Africa.

Re: the Aboriginal cultures, I'm sure that a great many of these people were there before Australia was ever "discovered", so in that way I suppose they are Native Australians, the way the US has Native Americans. They could very well be as dark as any African but not African descendents. I don't honestly know how or why the Aboriginal peoples ended up in Australia, there was a migration somewhere. Culturally however, these people probably don't share a specific African culture. They are their own culture.

Having said that, I'm sure that there are African descendents living in Australia, just like they can be found all over the world. One common link is that parts of Africa and Australia were both colonized by the British Empire...so if there was any type of slave trade from Africa to Australia, there would be African people there today.

I don't know what the demographics are, which is more abundant. My guess is that Aboriginees outnumber the Africans, simply because they have been a part of the landscape a lot longer.

Answer 3

Hi I am married to an Aborigine and he is as white skinned as me same as his siblings and Aunties etc. I have met very few 'black' aboriginees. There are black people, for want of better word, in Australia, but they are in the minority, from my experience anyway.

Answer 4

Australia grew to become into under no circumstances in touch indoors the slave commerce. There could have been some Africans shipped out with the British convicts. William Blue is a properly commonplace historic make certain with a convict historic previous. He grew to become into quite initially from Jamaica. Aboriginal Australians quite migrated from South East Asia, initially.

Answer 5

The term "black" is used to refer to African Americans who have ancestry traced in America since the time of Slavery in the southern and mid-states. Therefore, unless they are African American with slave ancestry, they are aborigine.

This is why current presidential candidate Barack Obama is not considered black, because his mother (or father, I dont recall) was from South Africa, and never was involved in the slave trade.

Answer 6

i view aboriginee as black people...and I would asssume the white Australians look upon them as black people too