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Title: Exploitative drivel
Review: Subsequently proven to be a complete pack of lies, this book is a deeply cynical, mendacious, grossly inaccurate and offensively racist account of the Australian Aboriginals.Marlo Morgan tells of an odyssey of spiritual transformation joining a group of Aboriginals ("real people") on walkabout through Australia. Despite her professed reverence for the "tribe", her book is littered with insincere and patronising platitudes that jostle for attention amidst the thinly veiled racism, describing her "travelling companions" as "half-cast", "half-breed", "natives" with feet "like hooves". Despite her alleged epiphany, Morgan retains the persona of an aloof, superior, white imperialist schoolmarm.This book has never been released in Australia. I wonder why...The unacceptable face of greedy 1990's surrogate spirituality as an offshoot of 1980's materialism.
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