This term refers to the category of common knowledge.He is active and is used in a scientific revolution, and colloquial vocabulary.Meanwhile, not everyone has a clear idea of its original origins and connotations.Therefore, there is reason to ponder the question: Aborigines - who is it?And how do they differ from other groups of the population?
From the history of civilization
Population territories and continents has never been stable.For centuries, the processes of displacement of significant ethnic groups in the new habitats.This process is driven by a number of economic and political reasons.People fled from famine, war and epidemics, or simply looking for new habitat, compares favorably with the climate and the opportunity to improve well-being.And on the way immigrants are almost always met the so-called "natives."It is those who have previously lived in the area.Relationship with them folded in different ways.Sometimes they were quite peaceful.But during the colonial division of the world, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, this relationship is often acquired the character of an armed conflict.For the colonial natives - is, above all, those who prevented them capture new land.
From the history of the term
very name of indigenous ancient enough, the word is used before the Christian civilization.This term, like so many in the scientific and professional vocabulary is of Latin origin.Aboriginals - those who have lived in those territories before they seized control of the legions of "capital of the world."Roman Empire is long gone, but its long term experienced and widely used.It can be heard in contemporary political practice and in the scientific revolution.Often it is used in various portable values.It has the word and synonyms.Aborigines - these are the same people who represent the definitions of "autochthonous" and "natives".It is also the world in general use designation for Aborigines is the phrase "indigenous peoples".
The natives of the New World
most often on indigenous peoples remember, when it comes to the history of development in North America.Perhaps nowhere Aboriginal fate was not as sad as the continental United States.The population of the vast territories of the American continent was virtually destroyed by the approaching from the ocean of European civilization.And not always American Indians were subjected to physical extermination.They are mainly dying from expulsion from their ancestral habitats and the forced separation from the traditional way of life.This inevitably led to the abuse of alcohol which was brought by white people.And as a consequence - to public and personal degradation with subsequent degeneration.Not the best situation for Aboriginal people was during the development of the Australian continent.Much more happy was the fate of the indigenous population of South America.Natives of the Amazon today is a very high number of ethnic groups in the continent.Moreover, they live mainly in the same natural habitat that many generations of their ancestors, while maintaining their language, cultural, religious and social traditions.Among other things, they attract many tourists to the continent from all over the world.Aborigines, whose photos adorn the showcase many tourist structures are one of the main attractions of South America.
Aborigines in Russia
much more happy was the fate of indigenous peoples have traditionally lived in the north-eastern expanses of the Russian Empire.Not that the colonization of Siberia took place absolutely without conflict.Many conquerors of trans-Ural spaces such as Ermak periodically entered into armed conflicts with the natives.Yet most of the indigenous peoples was integrated into the Russian completely voluntary.For their development and well-being, and a lot has been done before the revolution and during the Soviet period of history.But while the number of indigenous peoples has a steady tendency to decrease.Not all of these people wish to maintain a traditional way of life, many are choosing the path of assimilation and gradual dissolution in the larger ethnic groups.
