Based on their cultural views, people tend to judge other people in negative ways. The difference between 2 cultural backgrounds can cause friction between the people. Their ethnocentric views cause each other to disagree. Nowadays the disagreements are minor and can be easily resolved. People are used to living with mixed cultures and people from different racial backgrounds. In the 1700's, however this wasn't the case. When the english colonized australia, they saw the indigenous people to be very animal like and inhumane. As the relationship between the 2 races started to develop, their differences started to fade. Over time the differences still existed and the english still looked at the aboriginals are being animal like. British soldiers were still hunting the aboriginals and killing the local people with their weapons. Treating them like they were wild animals. Pemulwuy, an aboriginal soldier, believed strongly in revenge to the British and set out to burn their crops. This only made the British more angry and giving them more of a reason to call the aboriginals, savages. The british carried on killing the natives and the natives carried on fighting back. Because the british's culture resolved around progress and educating their society. Mainly keeping their nation as developed as possible. The first australians however, focused more on their religions, They were more traditional than the British and therefore they didn't see thing in the same perspective as the British people. Their beliefs were different and so their actions were strange to each other. Their ethnocentricity caused conflict between the 2 nations because their views on each other, based on their culture, were not always positive and were mainly negative.
