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>Work for op shop
>Aboriginal family comes in
>Helping them out doing customer service
>Refer to and call the oldest abo "aunty" through their stay which she didn't object to
>Only called her that because I often see elder abos referred to as aunty on tv.
>Casually talking to them about abo shit and how I made damper in primary school. How I saw some cool vid on YouTube about cooking kangaroos and iguanas by burying them in heated ditches and burying them. Just random abo stuff.
Afterwards my coworkers were like "omg I can't believe you were calling her that and talking to her about that" as if I was being rude or patronising (the abo took to it well and seemed to enjoy my presence)
Mind you, these are woke bitches who are all about that welcome to country and probably stuff. Yet when push came to shove I was the only one embracing the abos and their culture