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The Pressure to Perform at High School
As an Aboriginal person, it's always a tension about how do you fit into these two worlds. You start to feel the pressures of acculturation and I guess there's no better example of this from an outsider's perspective than Adam Goodes. He whilst he fit it into Western culture, he was iconised and idolised. But then when he started to challenge the Western world, he was vilified and hated. And so that happens to all Aboriginal people because when you go through the school system, the school system gives you a false picture of what success looks like. It is based upon Western value systems. So everything's kind of an external view of what success is rather than going