Meaning of whitefella | Babel Free

Definitions

A white man or Caucasian person, especially as opposed to an Aboriginal Australian.

Australia

Examples

“2003, transcript, in Peter McConchie (recorder), Elders: Wisdom from Australia′s Indigenous Leaders, page 18, The learning isn′t written on paper as whitefellas′ knowledge is. We carry⟳ it instead in our heads and we′re talking from our hearts, for the land⟳. You fellas, whitefellas, put⟳ us in the back all the time, like⟳ we′ve got no language for the land⟳. But we′ve got the true story for the land⟳.”

“2008, Howard Pedersen, metatextual remark⟳, in Steve Kinnane, 5: Marda Marda: Two Bloods: Blood History, Rachel Perkins, Marcia Langton (editors), First Australians: An Illustrated History, page 148, Jandamarra was getting to know⟳ two things here. He was getting to know⟳ the magic of his own⟳ country and at the same time getting to know⟳ the whitefellas, and he was very good at knocking around with the whitefellas.”

“Indigenous self-representation was contained within a mainstream vision. This was clearly a whitefellas′ appropriation of blackfellas′ dreaming.”

“‘I can hold⟳ my licker. Not like⟳ my old man, and he's the whitefella.’”

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