[yitchelle]

Australian living in Germany here. I had similar thoughts when I started living in Germany in 2009. One of my thoughts was the church in my local German village is older than the Australian consititution by centuries. However, I realised that this is history as defined by European cultures. If is open this up to include Aboriginal culture, we can start to talk about similar time frames. I believe that Maori cultures would have similar time frames as well.