The Myth of the Primitive Race

Quiet Canines Podcast · Sep 18, 2026 · 3m

These impressive structures predate the Egyptian pyramids and Stonehenge. But Australian Senator Pauline Hanson calls the people who built them the most primitive race on earth.

This reminds me of how Canada justified Indian residential schools. Both countries rely on a myth that Indigenous peoples were savages or primitive peoples who needed civilization through Western education. Here’s the truth.

While other civilizations rose and collapsed, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures represent the oldest continuous living civilization on Earth going back 65,000 years. Anthropologists…