Does business success make you any less indigenous?

Indigenous business participation is significantly less when compared to mainstream Anglo-European participation in Australia. Yet those who are in business, are they any less Indigenous by being successful entrepreneurs than what they were before they went into business? Do you lose your Indigenous values? These questions are not uncommon within Indigenous community circles where the unknown often produces negativity. When an Indigenous person strives for economic independence they often face a gauntlet of criticism as they are often misunderstood in their endeavors. Indigenous business and social aspirations may be a dichotomy within the contemporary world. To be successful in business the Indigenous entrepreneur operates within the dominant culture, their clientele and in many cases their suppliers are all non-indigenous and/or from other minority groups than their own. They are often isolated, alienated within an economy that is so different to their Indigenous communal or urban environments. To be successful in business they must survive in the consumer driven capitalistic environment of mainstream business society. This often results in them becoming isolated from their own families and support networks. Do the entrepreneurs take on multiple identities to interact within the two worlds of Indigenous and Anglo Australian and where are they, are these entrepreneurs all in the rural remote, or are they in urban settings?