How does ethnocentricity cause conflict?

The ethnocentric British viewed th First Australians as barbarous animals, which utterly caused the clash between the two cultures. For the British part, the culture of Aboriginals seemed quite savage and sanguinary. The British, living more developed and advanced society at that time, treated Aboriginals inhumanly and insulted their cultures indiscriminately. Some of the British colonists had haoped to assimilate the Aboriginal peoples into the British culture and make them work in the new colony. At first, the Aboriginal people tried to avoid the British settlers since they felt threatened. As the number of settlers increased, however, more lands were being taken and contacts between the two became unavoidable. The problem was that the Aboriginals had no knowledge of British customs, behavior patterns, and values. The Aboriginals did not understand the British idea of proprietary rights. In doing so, the Aboriginals were annoyed the attitude of British people and the way they were treated so they paid back to them. This resulted caused conflicts between the two cultures. Both cultures regarded one another through their own twisted perceptions