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Stolen Children
We know that every
country has a story; most of the time is a bad story, full of suffering,
screams or blood. We watched a movie (Rabbit Proof Fence) which showed us part
of the Australian story and it really captured my attention so I searched for
more, that’s why I’m going to share what Stolen Generations or Stolen Children
means.
Some decades ago (between 1909 and 1969) the Australian Government started
kidnapping Aboriginals children because of two reasons:
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- First of all
because they didn´t want to mix different racial groups (Aborigines and British),
they didn’t want miscegenation.
-And because they
thought that the Aborigines couldn’t take care of their children. Some of those
kids were abused or abandoned but the thing is that the Government still taken the children even though they were find, most
of them were find, they had a normal life, they were safe without any big
trouble. But P. McGarry, a
politician, said that those people should still being stolen to prevent any
dangerous situation.
![](http://nationalunitygovernment.org/sites/default/files/styles/media_gallery_thumbnail/public/stolen1.jpg?itok=6xIOB_vP)
They sent the
children into institutional care and there they received food, education,
religion, etc. but they really wanted to get away and come back with their
families. The worst thing is that they thought that they were doing the right
thing. So they did that until 1970 in some cases.
On February 2008 the
Prime Minister of Australia gave a speech to apologize to Aborigines for all
the things that they lived. Nowadays there are a lot of people who still alive
and there are a lot of testimonies if you want to look up for more.
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I also found a video
similar to this but this happened in our country, Chile. Now I would like to know if you liked this and
what do you think.
http://www.elciudadanotv.cl/cortometrajes/cortometraje-animacion-selknam/
I knew a little bit of this topic because of the National Sorry Day in Australia. It's terrible how racism make people think that anyone different is inferior to them, and in Chile, as you said, we experienced an act of racism just as awful as the one you mentioned in the post. Selknam lived in peace for thousand of years, but their legacy was destroyed in only 20 years.
ResponderEliminarThis was an awful situation, a "whitening the aborigine population" under the name of the education, was an irreparable damage to these children, taking away their families and their identity.
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