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    Jimmie Blacksmith was half Aboriginal and half white, and was introduced to Christianity by Mr. Neville. Jimmie's view of his Aboriginal culture changed due to the lack of acceptance and misunderstanding from the white community. Witnessing disrespect of Aboriginal culture and corruption of traditions like strict marriage rules deeply impacted Jimmie. Mr. Neville encouraged Jimmie to marry a white woman to gain more respect, and this reinforced Jimmie's shift away from traditional Aboriginal culture. A train journey led Jimmie to think about the limitations of Aboriginal beliefs compared to the infinite possibilities of white culture. The final catalyst was attending "black parties" with heavy drinking and disrespect of women, which disgusted Jimm

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    Jimmie Blacksmith was half Aboriginal and half white, and was introduced to Christianity by Mr. Neville. Jimmie's view of his Aboriginal culture changed due to the lack of acceptance and misunderstanding from the white community. Witnessing disrespect of Aboriginal culture and corruption of traditions like strict marriage rules deeply impacted Jimmie. Mr. Neville encouraged Jimmie to marry a white woman to gain more respect, and this reinforced Jimmie's shift away from traditional Aboriginal culture. A train journey led Jimmie to think about the limitations of Aboriginal beliefs compared to the infinite possibilities of white culture. The final catalyst was attending "black parties" with heavy drinking and disrespect of women, which disgusted Jimm

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    Jimmie Blacksmith was half Aboriginal and half white, and was introduced to Christianity by Mr. Neville. Jimmie's view of his Aboriginal culture changed due to the lack of acceptance and misunderstanding from the white community. Witnessing disrespect of Aboriginal culture and corruption of traditions like strict marriage rules deeply impacted Jimmie. Mr. Neville encouraged Jimmie to marry a white woman to gain more respect, and this reinforced Jimmie's shift away from traditional Aboriginal culture. A train journey led Jimmie to think about the limitations of Aboriginal beliefs compared to the infinite possibilities of white culture. The final catalyst was attending "black parties" with heavy drinking and disrespect of women, which disgusted Jimm

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    Jimmie Blacksmith was half Aboriginal and half white, and was introduced to Christianity by Mr. Neville. Jimmie's view of his Aboriginal culture changed due to the lack of acceptance and misunderstanding from the white community. Witnessing disrespect of Aboriginal culture and corruption of traditions like strict marriage rules deeply impacted Jimmie. Mr. Neville encouraged Jimmie to marry a white woman to gain more respect, and this reinforced Jimmie's shift away from traditional Aboriginal culture. A train journey led Jimmie to think about the limitations of Aboriginal beliefs compared to the infinite possibilities of white culture. The final catalyst was attending "black parties" with heavy drinking and disrespect of women, which disgusted Jimm

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    The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith – Change of Culture – Catalyst

    Darshil and Freeman

    Jimmie wasn’t a normal Aboriginal- he was half blooded and had ideas of Christianity
    filled inside him by Mr. Neville. Jimmie’s view of culture mainly changes due to the
    unacceptance and misunderstanding of it in the white community. This is seen when
    Jimmie returns from the initiation and he lies to Mr. Neville about where he’d actually
    been (“Cane teach yer to be a good feller now” 6). In the next few years, Jimmie sees
    the behaviour of Aboriginals and comes to see the respect for their culture is virtually
    non existent, and Jimmie sees the corruption along with the limitations. He sees elders
    and respected men along the community hand their wives for a sip of whisky opposed
    to the strict marriage outlines and sticking to your woman. While seeing all this, Mr.
    Neville influences him to marry a white woman and be respected along the
    community. Even though this is not a new concept to him, he resides in this more
    strongly than ever after experiencing the troubled and “unaccepted” Aboriginal
    culture.

    It is during the train journey that Jimmie thinks about what his culture thinks about
    the world opposed to what the white world sees. The limitations of the aboriginal
    universe opposed to the infinite ideas and respect within the white world (… by
    seeing the umber plains which he had thought to be the total universe lead the
    Nevilles and himself to heights where red cedars stood so tall that the mind and the
    sky were stretched…” 8). This train journey marks the beginning of Jimmie’s journey
    to European values.

    Perhaps the most noticeable and enforced catalyst and form of action was when
    Jimmie embarked on a “visit to hell”. He was influenced by Wongee Tom to attend
    “black parties” with alcohol and women. He received the final disgust to his culture
    by seeing the excessive drinking and disrespect for women. Jimmie got arrested and
    was seen as typical Aborigine who “wanders off”. Mr. Neville bails Jimmie out and in
    that process Jimmie was “baptizing himself a white man” (13). He immediately talks
    to Mr Neville and tells him of the disregard for his culture and a start towards his
    white life (“I gotter start working so I kin git property,” 14). He then established and
    understood the fact that property was the main thing to his respect and should be
    respected unlike the wives and possessions of Aboriginals.

    Jimmie worked at his hardest and was ambitious in the approach of gathering wealth
    and owning property however he received unexpected returns. He gets short-changed
    by a number of [white] employees and the treatment is often harsh (Mr Healy’s
    punch). While experiencing unjust treatment, Jimmie decides not to act and accept
    this fact. He goes to work with Mort and while still accumulating only little money
    return to Brentwood. His view is now clashing with the Aboriginal view where their
    families and elders expect a share of their earnings. Jimmie is reminded once again
    why he” baptized” himself while seeing the alcoholic men (along with his uncle)
    perform a chant of heavy drinking and disrespect (all his money going up in bad
    music” 61).
    Rage quietly built up inside Jimmie. He discovered his lack of value and respect no
    matter what he did. He chose to go the European way but failed to realise or was
    untold of the unacceptance of such change and

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