Give groups of students a list of possible conflict situations like the ones listed below and the student planning sheet 4-1 and ask them to prepare a skit based on a conflict situation and present it to the class. Then give the students information sheet 4-2 outlining the assumptions of the Aboriginal world view and ask them to apply these assumptions to the situations in their skits and ask the students to compare the results. Now the students could do a dialectic exercise in which they evaluate the way the different world views handle conflict situations. Discuss the issue of cultural conflict from this point of view. A student has failed an exam and feels that some of the questions were unfair because they were asked in a different way than they had been taught in class.
Most people believe that hunter-gatherers face death from starvation all of their lives.
Hunter-gatherers work twelve to twenty hours a week, and for part of the year they do not have to work at all. War is so little practised that often they do not have a word for it. If a hunter attempted to save, he would have to work constantly to feed everyone else who would be content to live off of his work. A hunter who refused to share would be thought of as selfish and would be disliked and ignored. Sharing is actually a food storage system because sharing with others earns the right to be repaid at some future time.