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THE other day, I watched a documentary where a white man is dropped off in a Venezuelan jungle to live off the land for 10 days.
Everything the white man did – building shelter, making fire, making fish trap, gathering food, including maggots – to sustain himself was appropriated from indigenous people.
But the documentary was presented as if it was something original the white man was doing.
It struck me as a modern day colonial appropriation of indigenous cultural heritage.

Rajend Naidu,
Sydney