Australian Aboriginal culture is often claimed to be the oldest continuous culture in the world. In fact, Aboriginal culture is recent—as is every other known culture today. People learn culture as it is shared by others around them. Anthropologists have identified some 164 definitions of “culture”, but these can be distilled to three key factors that define culture: the language, beliefs and customs of a group. The US anthropologist Linda Light states that human language can be considered a culture’s most important feature, since complex human culture could not exist without language, and language could not exist without culture. They…