How does ethnocentrism cause conflict?

The ethnocentric views and actions of the British colonization towards the First Australians caused conflict between the two cultures. From the very beginning till the end, the views that the British held were that the First Australians were ‘barbarous’ and ‘ferocious’ and were in need, from their point-of-view, of a civilized way of life. Because the British had to colonize the land, they had to form friendly relations with the ‘natives’. Bennelong, a representative of the Aboriginal culture, helped Governor Arthur Philip to communicate with his people. Despite helping Governor Philip, Bennelong was betrayed by him and his people. Following Bennelong’s death, in his obituary, written from the British point-of-view, it says how Bennelong was still, after many years of trying, the same old animal that did not change. But Bennelong was a man who almost, for most of his time, altered his ways for the British and left his own people because of them. Bennelong wasn’t the only Aboriginal to be betrayed by the British colonists. The root of the problem started with trying to change Bennelong and branched out to the whole community. From this ethnocentric viewpoint, conflict resulted between the British and the First Australians. Over time, the British destroyed the First Australian crops to create their own food supply, wars between the two cultures broke out and the British felt that the Aboriginals were responsible for the problems that occurred. In time their relations with the natives turned worse than expected .For instance, one Aboriginal leader, Pemulwuy, was killed and beheaded. They took Pemulwuy’s head in a pickle jar back to England which was an insult to the Aboriginal people. This shows the British as ‘barbarous’ and ‘ferocious’ . All in all, the British had supremacy over everything and thought that the Aboriginals were inferior. In the end, the British ‘won’ and were successful in colonizing Australia, but for the First Australians it was a melancholic time.