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It also reflects the cultural conflict represented in the three aboriginal girls’ characters which is due to their rejection and resistance for the colonialists’ culture. Besides, the paper presents the cognitive analysis of the cultural struggle and resistance in Molly’s character, and it tackles the cultural resistance in Rabbit Proof Fence from a postcolonial point of view. Additionally, the semiotic dimension, which is based on a socio-cultural basis, is introduced in this paper.  \nKeywords: cultural existence, postcolonial, Australian Aboriginals, culture, national identity, colonizer, colonized, semiotic  \n1. Introduction  \nCultural identity or existence, which can be defined as the sense of belonging and conformity to a society or a culture, in which there is socially shared knowledge among all the members of a group or a culture, is quite obvious in the Australian aboriginal literature. This is due to the problems that the Australian aboriginals suffer from such as the loss of cultural heritage, racism, the crisis of preserving ethnic identity, and harsh treatment by the whites. Besides, the Australian aboriginal writers attempt to depict their cultural heritage and identity in the Australian society through their fiction works that were an attempt to restore their ethnic and cultural identities, memories, and heritage as an opposition to the colonizers' racial acts. So, the Australian aboriginal writers find in literature a good scope to reflect and emphasize their cultural and ethnic identities and to restore their lost homeland and memories.  \nPilkington’s novel Rabbit Proof Fence (1996) which is realistic story of three aboriginal girls who were separated from their families by the government policy in order to devastate the existence of black race in Australia is clear evidence of the cultural struggle from which most Australian aboriginals suffer. This struggle is due to the white colonialists’ acts against the aboriginal people. When the colonizers came to Australia and occupied the lands of the native people, the indigenous people suffered from the colonizers' discriminating and racial policies against them which led to the devastation of their society and cultural identity. Such policies led the aboriginal people to resort to alcohol which was offered to them by the colonizers in order to forget about their homeland. As a result, many aboriginals suffered from the spread of diseases because of the absence of health care. The novel is a true depiction of the imperialists' intentions towards the colonized which are based on colonizing lands and benefiting from the natural resources. Additionally, the cultural conflict between the indigenous people and the white colonialists in this novel is due to the indigenous people’s feeling of being inferior to and different from the white majority, the feeling of prejudice and discrimination, as well asthe hatred and refusal of the white colonizers' sexual harassment against them, slavery acts, and the policies of separating families from each other.  \nAdditionally, the Australian aboriginal literature is a true reflection of the history of the indigenous people and long struggle with colonialization and dispossession by the white colonizers' pol","cbCailVSyykf7ReT","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailVSyykf7ReT","pdf",147798,"English","# 1. Introduction\n# 2. 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