White ignorance has a critical impact on race relations and is implicated in the maintenance of Aboriginal disadvantage. Addressing this ignorance is a largely overlooked capacity‐building opportunity within Australia's non‐Aboriginal population. It warrants consideration as a key component of strategies targeting Aboriginal disadvantage. Despite the established links between race relations and Aboriginal well‐being, Aboriginal perspectives on non‐Aboriginal people rarely feature in public discourse on “Aboriginal problems.” This paper draws on data from 180 in‐depth interviews with 44 Aboriginal people in Darwin on the topic of White Australian people, culture and race relations. It reports Aboriginal perceptions of White Australian ignorance across areas of great symbolic and practical significance to Aboriginal people's lives. Their experience is that most White Australians are ignorant of the history of colonisation and the complexities of its aftermath. They are ignorant of Aboriginal law, cultures and languages, and of the extent of their own ignorance. The call to address White ignorance subverts assumptions about whose ignorance and capacity must be dealt with in order to progress national goals of reconciliation, address Aboriginal disadvantage and achieve justice and equality for Aboriginal people.

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差距拉大：白人的无知，种族关系以及对澳大利亚原住民的后果

白色的无知对种族关系具有至关重要的影响，并与维持原住民的不利地位有关。解决这种无知是澳大利亚非原住民群体中一个被忽视的能力建设机会。它值得考虑作为针对土著不利条件的战略的关键组成部分。尽管种族关系与原住民福祉之间建立了联系，但在有关“原住民问题”的公共讨论中，原住民对非原住民的看法很少出现。本文利用来自达尔文的44位原住民的180次深度访谈的数据，这些访谈涉及澳大利亚白人，文化和种族关系。它报告了土著人对澳大利亚白人的无知的看法，这些看法对土著人民的生活具有重要的象征意义和现实意义。他们的经验是，大多数澳大利亚白人都不知道殖民历史及其后果的复杂性。他们不了解原住民法律，文化和语言，也不了解自己的无知程度。解决白人无知的呼吁颠覆了关于必须解决谁的无知和能力的假设，以便实现国家和解的目标，解决土著人的不利条件并实现土著人民的正义与平等。