The Stolen Generation
Protection for Australians or "race problems"?
The movie "Rabbit-Proof fence" shows us how was the time for aboriginal people of Australia, specially the mixed heritage kids, who where sons and doughters principally of aboriginal women with white men who worked in de rabbit.proof fence.
Aboriginal children were taken "legally" of the arms of their mothers
Focusing on the movie, but in general, these kids were taken to "act as a white, to think as a white, to do everything as a white" but, with the pretext that they were going to have betters conditions and a better education. On the contrary in simple word they were taken to exterminate with the aboriginal blood, cause every mixed heritage child was sent to the Settlement River Moore, to prevent that the pure aboriginal race continued reproducing and reduce every time. They were trained to work as maids and farms laborers.
This "law" ran from 1910 to 1971. In 2008 Australia presented its apologies to the Stolen Generation, but that were "symbolic apologies" because Native People didn't received anything in compensation for sixty years of abuses and discrimination
Its like the same with the Native Americans Indians,that people didnt respect any of them and their try to change them like that you say "act as a white, to think as a white, to do everything as a white", but you cant change the origins of this people and others.
ReplyDeleteBefore see this movie I dont know nothing about this theme I really curious about what they doing to the child in this "house" They were dying at the end?
ReplyDeleteBelen, as I say in my post they were taken to be trained to work as maids and farm laborers, and by this way they didn't get in touch with pure aboriginal race and like that they pretented to finish with aboriginal people
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