Indigenous People Misunderstandings

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When working with indigenous people there can be things that can happen that cause issues between co-workers. Things like:
 Having different beliefs and values will cause misunderstandings, the indigenous staff might solve an issue in their own way based on the beliefs and values but the other staff might do it differently and this might not be good for the improvement of the centre.
 Indigenous people believe it is disrespectful to have eye contact with someone but other staff may find it a sign of respect as does the Australian culture. If all staff don’t become aware of the cultural difference of the staff within your centre issue will occur through misunderstanding.
 Within Aboriginals they tend to be quiet this doesn’t mean they