Striptease on Australia's Uluru angers Aborigines

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Source: afp

AFP - A woman who performed a striptease on top of Australia's giant red rock Uluru on Sunday prompted a renewed call for people to be banned from climbing the important indigenous site, a report said.

Alizee Sery, 25, stripped down to a white bikini after climbing the central Australian monolith, formerly known as Ayers Rock, in what she described as a tribute to Aboriginal culture.

"I am aware that Uluru is sacred in their culture. My project is a tribute to the greatness of the Rock," she told the Sunday Territorian.

"What we need to remember is that traditionally, the Aboriginal people were living naked. So stripping down was a return to what it was like."

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20100627-striptease-australias-uluru-angers-aborigines

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here she is, apparently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owOGy3hpDow

[Number23]

1. She sounds like a real smart, culturally sensitive kind of gal

:eyes:

[SunnySong]

27. It's a big flat red rock... It's like stripping on Devil's Tower...

or St Peter's Basilica.

[Tunkamerica]

2. kind of dumb

[boppers]

3. Culture FAIL.

Disrobing on Uluru is one thing.

Doing it with western dance moves as if they were in a techno-pounding club, not so much.

[pinboy3niner]

4. Her "respectful" "tribute to aboriginal culture" slid right down the stripper pole

She might have sounded halfway credible if the evidence didn't boomerang on her. A pretty lame try at 'spin' to justify the unjustifiable...

[boppers]

5. I totally respect pole art.

Watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWxcVyBRecE

It's actual art.

She's just doing amateur ass wagging.

[pinboy3niner]

7. That was classy AND entertaining

It demonstrated athleticism and skill, too. Not the traditional use of the pole, though some strippers are dancers and are also creative in its use.

There's a time and a place for everything. Our friend's mistake at Uluru was not being mindful of that, and of the local culture...

[Delphinus]

9. That was beautiful!

Thank you so much for posting that - I was enthralled at their performance!

[Bette Noir]

17. Yow. That's some high-level acrobatics there.

Were the laws of gravity repealed, and I didn't hear about it?

[secondwind]

6. what an insensivite b****. We were in Uluru in 1995, and were told that the aborigines

considered it a "sacred place".......it was the tour guide's way of telling us to stay off it, I guess.

My husband and I decided not to climb Uluru, and I watched as Japanese tourists, scrambling up with their children, and packages and food, went up, even though they had heard the same thing.

The aborigines really DON'T WANT anyone walking up there! Damnit.

[boppers]

8. So when will the Europeans go back to Europe?

This is the question that bothers me, as it has no simple answers.

[Vincent441]

14. never

[Green_Lantern]

32. does that include European Americans too?

Native americans weren't exactly just sharing the land..

[madmom]

16. Funny you should mention that. Back in 2003 my hubby and daughter and I went to

Sedona Arizona over xmas vacation. We went to Bell Rock (supposed to be a vortex). There were signs all over saying "please stay on trail" as we were coming back, a bus load of Japanese tourist were stomping though the cactus and all the flora and fauna going up to the rock. It upset me immensely.

[Green_Lantern]

33. a piece of inanimate land being sacred is archaic superstition..

She didn't harm the structure by standing on it.

[LostinVA]

38. I think you need to consider the treatment of Aboriginals in Australian society

They have been treated horribly. They weren't even considered human until the 60's. They have been on that land for an insanely long time, and treated even worse than our Native Americans. Give them some respect, including banning climbers from Uluru.

[Green_Lantern]

40. that's crazy...

The US built a national monument on Lakota lands, and has national parks on Native land.

Should we ban climbing on Native American lands too?

[ixion]

10. "So stripping down was a return to what it was like."

Uh, yeah. Because Aborigines were always accompanied by crappy techno music and acting like cheap ho's back then, too, no doubt. :eyes:

@FAIL;

[SemperEadem]

11. is she Aboriginal? If not then sit down and put your damn clothes on

attention wh0re.

[SunnySong]

31. that seems a bit racist... I think the world should be enjoyed by all regardless of ethnicity. nt

[Blue_Tires]

12. why? what was her possible rationale behind that tasteless stunt?

[depakid]

13. Getting it closed off to tourists?

[Javaman]

26. Shameless self promotion. nt

[AsahinaKimi]

15. wow

Girl has some awesome muscle tone there..her arms were just peaked! (Pun not intended.)

[Codeine]

18. self delete

not worth it

[PfcHammer]

19. No culture there. That's bootie clapping self promotion.

[davidinalameda]

20. trying to find the clip from Priscilla Queen of the Desert

anyone else remember the "cock in a frock on a rock"?

http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/guide/Alice+Springs+and+Ayers+Rock/Sights/46372

[rocktivity]

21. I had no idea people climbed the rock until I saw in a documenatary

The first thing I thought was that, "I'd NEVER do that!"

:headbang:
rocktivity

[Lagomorph]

22. In the sixties...

this sort of thing was called "free expression". In America, it took the form of shitting all over traditional American values (not an entirely bad thing). Just the same, those who were offended were ignored or ridiculed.

[laylah]

23. Major FAIL!

Ularu is a Sacred Indigenous ground. What an insult!

[Green_Lantern]

34. yes...an insult to REASON...

I'm going to go pick up a rock and claim it is sacred....

[WolverineDG]

24. MINGA!

If she knew it was sacred, she wouldn't have climbed it. She would have walked around it instead. F'in minga.

dg

[classysassy]

25. Another country where the visitors

have out stayed their welcome.

[Green_Lantern]

35. yeah industrilization sucks..

Let's go back to farming our own land..

[Scout]

28. exhibitionist twit n/t

[GlennWRECK]

29. Since when are boobies a bad thing?

...Ever?

[GlennWRECK]

30. Since when are boobies a bad thing?

...Ever?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

36. Even though I'm inclined to give the Aborigines some slack for all they've been through...

...it's still woo.

[LostinVA]

39. Agreed, but it's just one more slap in the face to a people treated so badly

Give them Uluru.

[LostinVA]

37. They just need to ban people from walking on the monolith

It's time to give the Aboriginals some respect.

I read in "A Sunburned Country" that, within my lifetime, they weren't even considered HUMANS, but categorized with flora and fauna. We desecrated the Black Hills, and they desecrated Uluru.