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My name is Fangyi and a easier name to call me is Kate. I'm currently in my second year of Visual Arts (Painting). I moved to Adelaide when I was eight years old with my mum and my brother. Every year, we'd take a ten+ hour flight from Adelaide to Guilin (China) during the long break from school.

I don't really understand my culture identity because I'd get very confused when I meet my Chinese families and friends they would tell me that I am Australian, and in Australia people would tell me that I am Chinese. It feels weird, but as long as I am with the ones I love, living in the same place, I call that home.

This course will be a challenge for me but also very exciting!

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Hi, my name is Brittany and I am in 2nd year of Visual Arts. I am born and raised in Adelaide along with both my parents however my grandparents were born in Germany, Scotland and England. Even through my family has a strong cultural background and many traditions from my grandparents birthplace has followed them here, everyone of them has embraced the Australian culture which has made Australia home for me. I have traveled overseas and each and every time I go away I realise that I absolutely love Adelaide and the family and friends I have here are what make it so special.

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My name is Zoe, I am a part-time vis comm student. My background is Italian and Czech, with my maternal grandparents immigrating from Italy and my paternal grandfather coming to Australia as a displaced person after the war. While I enjoy the culture of my background, I see myself as Australian. And after lots of traveling it has become very apparent to me that home is where my family and friends are in SA.

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Im Morgan, i'm studying communication design and i'm in my second year. i was born here in Adelaide and i've lived here my whole life. My background is Hungarian as my puparm (grandad) was born there.

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My name is Liam and I’m currently in second year Vis Comms (Illustration). Besides my Mums Father who was born in England, both my Parents and their parents where born in Australia. I guess I simply see myself as Australian. Sports and holidays have taken me all around Australia but I’ve only ventured overseas once so I haven’t really had a chance to compare cultures! That being said, I’m happy laying low with my family in SA but always down to experience something new and very open to the idea of traveling at some stage.

With my traveling days ahead of me, I’m excited to first look at the culture in the country I am most familiar with, Australia.

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Hi everyone! My name is Katherine and I'm half way through studying Visual Communications. I'm born and raised in Adelaide however my parents are from China and Vietnam, which makes me both Chinese and Vietnamese. I am incredibly proud of my heritage. I'm excited to learn more about the Indigenous culture in Australia and broaden my knowledge of other cultures.

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Hey My name is Caitlin Ralston and I'm currently half way through my second year of Vis Comms. My Family has lived in Australia for numerous generations and I have only ever lived in Adelaide, however hope to live and travel the world after uni to explore different cultures! To me, home is where family, laughter and love is. Growing up in a relatively small family I have just one older sister and a mother and father which i still live at home with. I hope to learn and explore more about Indigenous culture and to gain a wider appreciation for Indigenous Art.

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My Name is Philippa Wright but I get called Pip for short. I am in my second year of visual communications. I have moved around a lot when I was younger, around South Australia, I have lived in 7 different country towns. Up until last year I have never lived in Adelaide, I only moved here to study and I am living in a shared house with 2 others. Home before Adelaide is in the Riverland, Loxton. This is where my family live, I am the oldest of 3 and I have 2 younger brothers.

I am very excited to gain/ understand more about Indigenous Art and the history of it all

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Hey, my name is Nic and i'm in my second year of the Visual Communication course.
My background on my fathers side is heavily Irish. My mothers side is a bit of everything. But both of my parents grew up in South Australia. I have lived in the Barossa Valley my whole life and it is where I call home. I am looking forward to learning as much as I can from this course./

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My Name is Emily and I'm in my second/third year of Vis Comms (I took some time off last year to travel around Europe so I'm half/half). I would identify myself as Australian because I was born here and have lived here all my life, but neither of my parents were born here. My Mum's family is Dutch, and moved here from the Netherlands in the 70's. She is part of a big family so Dutch culture has certainly had an influence on and shaped my upbringing. My Dad is Australian but was born in Papua New Guinea and lived there until he was 10. Surprisingly has not made much of an impact on him culturally, but his family has strong German roots (even though they emigrated in the 1800's).

Despite my love to travel and immerse myself in other cultures, there is nothing that say home to me more than Adelaide! :)

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Hey my name is Isabel and I was born and raised here in Adelaide so Australia will always be my familiar home. My mum is from Finland so being raised with Finnish traditions and having citizenship in Finland (soon to get a passport so I can go live in Europe whenever yay) I identify with Finnish culture as well.

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My name is Alana and I'm currently in my second year of Visual Communications. I have an Italian background, my grandparents both migrating from Italy. Home to me is where my family is and that is the most important thing to me. I'm excited to travel and explore the world in the future but I will always find comfort in coming home to SA.

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Hey! My name is Tom and I'm in the second year of my Vis Comms course. My family has lived in Australia for a lot of generations, so it's hard for me to see my cultural identity as anything other than Australian. My closest ancestral links outside of Australia come from England and Germany.

Australia is very much home to me, in fact I've only been out of Australia twice. I've traveled interstate quite a bit, but only ever for a few weeks at a time, and I always come back to Adelaide. I'm proudly South Australian.

I think the other major part of my cultural identity is my Christian faith. While not the "culture" most people here have been talking about, my faith and the Christian culture that I am a part of with my church and my family is very central to my identity, and has really shaped me as a person.

I think this course will be an excellent chance to learn more about a culture I don't know much about, and to think more about my own culture.

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My name is Jordan and I am a second year Visual Arts student. Both of my parents were born in Australia, however the background on my Dad's side is Macedonian and my Mum's side is Irish and English. I see Australia as home as this is where I was born, and where I have grown up.

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My name is Yiting (*not pronounced as eating!). I prefer others to call me Monica, it is just easier. Now in second year of VC. My background is Taiwanese and I grew up in Taiwan until I was 12, then my family decided to move to Australia. To me home is where my family is, where i feel most comfortable to stay and fit in, where most of my connections are. But, I seriously couldn't define my cultural identity as I really don't have deep understanding in either of the culture. But I also have to admit that I understand Taiwan's culture more (in terms of language, art, tradition and people) due to many reasons. So I am really looking forward to gain more connection and understanding with the indigenous and Australia culture through this course.

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My name is Sijie or you can call me Coral. I am in second year of Vis Comms. I come from China and studying in SA. Therefore, this course is pretty hard for me because I have no ideas of the Indigenous Art. So, it is a challenger for me to learn a foreign culture history through this course.

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My name is Renee and I am studying Vis Comms - 2nd Year.  I come from an Italian background. Both my parents were born here in Australia, but my dad, brother and I have dual nationality. Although I do have relatives who live overseas in Italy, Canada and America, the majority of my family and friends live here and Adelaide is a great placed to call home.  I am thoroughly enjoying this course as a whole and am interested in engaging and learning a lot  in my first online course.

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My name is Sorcha, I'm studying a bachelor of visual arts and am currently in my final year. My family is Irish and I have grown up between Ireland and Australia. I was born in Australia and have spent the greater majority of my time here so I Identify as Australian. I love to travel and I am dying to see more of Australia. I'm planning a road trip to the Great Barrier Reef for when I finish my degree. This is the second time I've done an online course, I'm hoping to stay organised and on top of things. So far I'm enjoying the structure of this course

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I'm Brydie and I'm studying Vis Comms. I moved to Adelaide from Kangaroo Island, where I spent most of my childhood, to study at uni. I'm the eldest of four girls and I'm currently living in a share house with four others. This is the first online class that I've done so I'm keen to understand how it all works and learn as much as possible.

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My name is Kate, I'm second year Vis Comms. I was born here in Australia, but my mother is from the Philippines so I've been fortunate enough to have grown up with and inherited multiple cultural backgrounds. I'm originally from the Riverland, so home for me looks a little different than that of Adelaide life - more scrubland and less city. Living away is challenging but makes getting back home all that more significant and special for me.

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My name is Bonnie Howarth, and I'm just starting my second year of Bachelor of Visual Arts. my whole family is English, I however was born and bred right here in SA. I'm an only child to a single mother, which makes Christmas quite relaxed compared to others!I live on my own with my Greyhound, Kit Kat, and ultimately want to be a character concept designer for games and film. I have done online courses before, and it has been 50/50 in terms of achieving what I need to, so I'm hoping I can keep myself motivated for this course. I'm not usually good with any type of history (except Ancient Egyptian), so will need to work out how to stay focused!

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my head around the structure and site. I currently have the travel bug bad (sorry uni) and reckon everything can be solved with some chocy. One thing I discovered when I was away is the lack in my own countries history and how travellers/ people want to know more about Aus and how we've come about, other than just kangaroos and vegemite. Excited to learn and intake more and gain clarity on the history of this place we all call home.

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My name is Elise and I'm currently in second year of Vis Comms. I have an Italian background as my grandparents migrated here from Italy but I identify myself as Australian as I was born and lived here my whole life - and home to me is definitely here in good ol' Rads. First time I've done a course online but pretty keen to get into it and study the course on my couch.

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Hey my names Lucas and I’m studying vis coms. I was born in Australia and i haven’t left yet. Im the youngest of three, I have a brother and a sister and a really cute niece. Home for me where my family is, as I still live at home and I like them. But my second home is uni because I never leave, that is sadly true.

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I'm Imi, just hope off the plane from travelling Europe. First time taking a course online so keen to wrap

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Glad to have you on board! You're the first to post - hopefully some others will join us soon enough...I haven't watch Stranger Things yet but i'm looking forward to binging on it at some stage - along with some other shows like the Handmaid's Tale and the new Twin Peaks.

Hoping you'll come out the other end of this course with a better knowledge and appreciation of the diversity of Indigenous art and design and the philosophies and worldviews that inform them. Whether you can incorporate them in your own work is something we need to think carefully about - certainly ideas of design ethics and appropriation will be discussed later in the course, especially when you come to work on your final assignment

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Hi! My name's Finn Gaardboe and I'm currently somewhere in my second (?) year of my Vis Com degree. I'm English, Australian and Danish and have lived in the formers back and forth, while visiting the latter regularly. I'm from a family of 5 (parents included) and live with my partner. Both of us work a lot, love travel and Stranger Things, and are both graphic designers.
Unfortunately I don't know a huge amount in regards to our indigenous ancestry but I'm looking forward to learning, and hopefully being able to incorporate it into my design work.
I look forward to working with y'all.