How Does Ethnocentricity Cause Conflict?

The British's ethnocentric view of the First Australians caused many conflicts only because of the British not being able to accept a different culture. When the British first arrived in Australia they saw the Aboriginals as animals. The British also called them savages and uncivilized. The British did not understand one of the Aboriginals rituals of revenge which was that if you did something bad to them they could do the same to you. A colonizer and hunter was killing Aboriginals so they killed him too, the Governor Phillip was very angry at this and ordered the Aboriginals to be killed and their heads brought back to him. If Phillip could realize that this was normal in Australia he would have not have reacted so strongly. This decision almost ruined the relationship Phillip had with an Aboriginal leader named Bennelong. But this did not ruin the relationship and Bennelong went back to England with Phillip as a Trophy saying we have tamed the animals. Later in Bennelongs years he went back to Australia and the british had destroyed the Aboriginals crops for the crops they wanted like corn. Bennelong went back to his tribe and when he died the British in his Obituary called him a through savage and even though he went to England he was still an animal and that would not change for any of the Aboriginals.